We often blame death for stealing the people we love but sometimes, it isn’t death that takes them. It’s addiction. It’s mental illness. It’s the isolation and despair that creep in and convince us there’s no way out.
In this deeply personal episode, Alexis shares the story of losing her mother to suicide and explores how death didn’t steal her—mental illness and unhealed trauma did. We’ll talk about how addiction and mental illness isolate us, how they thrive in silence, and how breaking that silence can save lives.
You’ll also hear current statistics on suicide and overdose rates in the U.S., and how grief from these kinds of losses can feel especially complicated, heavy, and invisible.
This isn’t a story about blame. It’s a story about truth, about healing, and about what we can reclaim when we stop treating death as the villain and start looking at the real thieves.