Hey folks, this is Kevin. On this week's episode of Riskyle here, Tony Sam.

And in my head I was going, you are the strongest. Nothing can defeat you. You are tough!

And that's when the police officers said, what did you just say?

That and more. But first, you know, I have a very special, very unique friendship

with a woman named Jan Warner that I met in a storytelling class

so over a decade ago. I have learned so much about grief from Jan. Because Jan wrote the book

Grief Day by Day, Jan lost her amazing husband, Arty, almost 12 years ago, and Arty was hilarious

and brilliant and stubborn. I mean, he could be a real son of a bitch. Arty went from being a homeless,

alcoholic to becoming one of the pillars, one of the granddaddies of alcoholics anonymous

in the United States. Both Jan and Arty's life stories are so full of surprises that it's no

wonder Arty's death hit Jan so, so hard. She would tell me about grief attacks, about suicidal

ideation, about her guilt, about not having done this or said that, about the doctor who told her

she should not be grieving anymore after six months. I still get pissed off about that story,

about the ways that she reconnected to some aspects of her face, but only parts,

and about how much it meant to her to build a community on Facebook, called Grief Speaks Out,

where she learned more and more about grief meditations, grief breathing exercises,

healthy and unhealthy coping mechanisms, creativity exercises, and the dozens and dozens of insights

from great thinkers and writers, psychologists, spiritual leaders, and ordinary people,

that you will find in Grief Day by Day simple practices and daily guidance for living with loss

by Jan Warner. Now here's the show.

Hello kids, this is Risk. The show where people tell true stories they never thought they

dared to share. I'm Kevin Allyson, this is the first episode of 2022. Oh my fucking god. Let's see

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