What if your child’s death opened up your life’s purpose?
6/2/20261 hr 9 min
After building the loving family she always wanted, a woman loses her youngest son to an unsecured gun, and turns her grief into a fight to protect other children.
Today’s episode featured Kristin Song. Kristin Miller Song is a writer and speaker whose work examines what it means to live through a profound before-and-after moment, and how a life is reshaped when certainty disappears. Her writing centers on loss, endurance, family, and moral reckoning, and is grounded in lived experience rather than instruction or argument. She has a memoir coming out next year.
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First 90 secondsSpeaker 10:00
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Kristin Song· Guest0:19
I just wanted the floor to open up and swallow me because at that moment, everything I knew and loved and trusted literally imploded in front of my eyes. And I just knew that it was never going to be the same.
Speaker 10:39
From Audible Originals, I'm Whit Misseldine. You're listening to This Is Actually Happening. Episode 409. What if your child's death opened up your life's purpose?
Whit Misseldine· Host1:04
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Speaker 41:16
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