It’s often said there’s no greater pain than losing a child. Today’s guest on Grieving Out Loud, Kym Hinchey, knows that devastation all too well. After helping her son through recovery from substance use disorder, she lost him to a sudden overdose.
Just a few months after finding her 27-year-old son, Adrian, dead, Kym returned home to another unimaginable loss-her husband, also found dead on their bedroom floor.
In the span of just a few months, Kym lost both her son and her husband. The grief was overwhelming. She says there was a time when the pain felt constant, and she wasn’t sure she wanted to keep going.
But instead, Kym decided to devote herself to understanding grief and learning how to live through it. Today, she’s found meaning and purpose again, and she uses her experience to help others who are navigating loss.
In this episode of Grieving Out Loud, Kym shares her story with honesty and courage—the lessons grief has taught her, and how she’s found a way to keep moving forward.
Download Kym’s Free PDF “Five Things I Wish I’d Known at Ground Zero Grief” here.
Find Kym’s book, Then and Now: The Evolution of Grief, here.
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MEET THE GUEST
Kym Hinchey
Kym Hinchey is a certified grief educator, grief coach, and founder of Adrian Grief Support, named after her son Adrian, who died from an accidental overdose during the pandemic. Three months later, she lost her husband John. She is the author of Then and Now: The Evolution of Grief, and her work is dedicated to normalizing grief in a society that too often doesn’t know how to hold it, reminding grievers that what they feel is not broken, just human.
