Overview
- In an Oct. 27 Instagram and TikTok video, Kiser recounts a recent grief retreat where she visualized and named her grief “Hard” and began to view it as a companion.
- She says her counselor told her the popular five stages of grief model is not a rulebook for bereavement and that emotions can coexist and recur over time.
- Kiser explains she is learning to allow moments of happiness without feeling guilty, describing guidance that “everything can coexist.”
- Her 3-year-old son, Trigg, died in May after a backyard pool drowning in Chandler, Arizona, with police citing video indicating he was unsupervised for more than nine minutes and in the water for about seven.
- Brady Kiser was the only parent home at the time; prosecutors later said there was no likelihood of conviction and he has not been charged, and a Maricopa County judge granted Emilie Kiser’s motions to keep certain records private and remove two pages from the police report.