My Son Died. I Didn't Move On. I Learned to Carry Him.

There are some losses you do not recover from because recovery suggests you can somehow return to the person you were before they happened. On August 7, 2022, one day before my birthday, my 24-year-old son, Kyle Nathaniel Terry, died by suicide. There was a Keith before that day and a Keith after that day. They are not the same man. For a long time, I thought grief meant finding my way back. Eventually, I realized there was no going back. In this deeply personal episode of The NEXT BIG THING,...