"Grief Is A Wave" | Kerry Milligan: One Year After Emmie | Club Sandwich

Everyone treats the first anniversary as a finish line. A year on from her mother Emmie's death, Kerry Milligan had the candle lit and the chats going and thought she was managing well — until a trip to Hobart with Sarah, a small plastic container of ashes and a wrong turn underneath an art gallery knocked her sideways. Kerry and Sarah Macdonald talk about grief as a wave rather than a staircase, the triggers nobody warns you about, and what happens when losing your mother swings you around to face your own mortality. Plus the question they asked Kerry at the emergency desk that she couldn't answer — and the ten seconds of admin that would have fixed it.