Grief, Guts And Green Smoothies

As a member of the Board of Directors for the NEC Society, Melissa speaks out to share Leyden’s story to help others understand trauma, anticipated grief, unanticipated grief, and how deadly the disease necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC) truly is. Thank you for listening to share in Leyden’s story and light in this special episode.About this podcastEach episode we abandon our comfort zones to get a little gutsy and hold space to grow into stronger versions of ourselves.In 2014, the birth of my daughter Leyden changed my entire world. Four months later, grief shattered it. I was broken, scared, lost, angry, and hopeless. I didn’t want to live and wasn’t really sure how to.I sought every means to “fight” grief: researching, joining parent groups, and I even traveled outside of the country twice, to hear world-renowned grief speaker Dr. Raymond Moody.Disappointed, I discovered like all adversities in life, there is no way to “beat” grief. But, thankfully, there were effective strategies I could employ when navigati