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Is Suicide a Choice? What I’ve Come to Understand After 17 Years
“Is suicide a choice?” Before we go further: if you are in crisis right now, please reach out to the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline by calling or…
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Suicide Loss and Therapy: How to Know If a Clinician Will Help
You have handled things your whole life. Hard things. Unfair things. Things that knocked you sideways and still required you to get up the next morning and keep…
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Funerals, Wakes, and the Gathering After: Honoring Someone We Lost to Suicide.
The phone calls had already gone out. The flowers were ordered. Someone, somehow, had managed to contact the funeral home. And there you were, sitting in a room…
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Losing a Parent to Suicide: When the Grief Gets Minimized
If you are here because you lost a parent to suicide, an older mother or father in their seventies, eighties, or beyond, you are carrying a grief that…
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Spring After Suicide Loss: When the World Moves On Without You
Every spring, I hear a version of the same thing. Someone is managing. Getting through the days. And then the birds come back, the light shifts, and suddenly…
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First Year After Suicide Loss: What the Year Actually Looks Like
Going back to work was the first test I did not know I was taking. Six weeks after John died, I sat at my desk in the middle…
17–25 minutes
Like sunflowers turning toward the sunlight, this blog helps survivors of suicide loss find hope, healing, and the path toward life after loss.
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