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    • You spent 15 years teaching students how the human body works. Then you lost your son, and started recognizing what was happening to you. What did you see?

    • The book’s structure compares grief to a pregnancy, trimester by trimester. Why did that framework fit, and what does it let people understand that “the stages of grief” does not?

    • You write that families of people with addiction often hide in the shadows. What does that silence cost them and what changes when someone stops hiding?

    • Someone listening right now knows a parent who’s just lost a child. What should they say, and what should they not?

    • How grief and pregnancy mirror one another and how to find comfort in that

    • Substance Abuse is stigmatized and why my self esteem and his added to the trauma

    • Things that I found that helped: poetry, writing, new traditions, electronic frame, noticing things, saying yes, working out, nature….

    •  Tools on how to survive with this nightmare - It is important to normalize a noninstagram life - birth and death are cosmically close.

    • a look at if you can still have a relationship if only one of you is alive.

In the News…

  • “I Never Expected Grief to Feel Like This | A Mother's Story”
    Stories and Stanzas — March 2026
    In this poignant Stories and Stanza episode, we sit down with Katie Rizzo as she shares her deeply personal journey following her son's passing from a drug overdose.
    YouTube
    Spotify

  • “A Mother Faces Child Loss After Opioid Addiction”

    Overcomers Approach — April 2026
    We connect the dots between relapse, isolation, jail, foster care, and the community-level cost of treating people as disposable. Along the way, we name privilege and disparities that show up in who gets punished and who gets supported, and why “all kids are our kids” has to be more than a slogan.

    Apple Podcast

    Buzzsprout

    Instagram

  • “A Mother Remembers Her Son And Rebuilds Life After Opioid Loss”

    Contagious Smile — April 2026
    We connect the dots between relapse, isolation, jail, foster care, and the community-level cost of treating people as disposable. Along the way, we name privilege and disparities that show up in who gets punished and who gets supported, and why “all kids are our kids” has to be more than a slogan.

    Apple Podcast

    YouTube

    Spotify

  • “Ep 313 Katie Rizzo Shares Her Journey from Losing Her Son to Addiction”

    Professor of Perseverance Podcast— April 2026

    On September of 2024, Katie Rizzo lost her firstborn son to addiction. In a tragic irony, she found that grief mirrored pregnancy.

    Apple Podcast

    Podbean

  • Kate Rizzo & using writing to deal with Grief and Loss on Trauma Recovery Anonymous

    I pray that each of you can be helped by what Kate has shared here today and it is my hope that in the both she and her soulmate will come on as future guests,

    Apple Podcast

    Podbean

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