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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Words that help after suicide loss rarely show up first. Anger, guilt, blame, stigma, and the endless why come ahead of them, and they are just as real.…
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Feeling happy after suicide loss can bring a rush of guilt, as if joy means you cared less. It does not. Grief research and years in our support…
15–22 minutes -
Losing an only child to suicide can end your daily role as a parent, your plans for growing older with family nearby, and the future you built around…
16–23 minutes -
Disenfranchised grief is grief the people around you do not fully recognize. After a suicide loss it touches friends, coworkers, former partners, and roommates, not just family, and…
17–26 minutes -
You just found out there was a life insurance policy on the person you lost, and now there is a form to fill out. This post explains how…
22–33 minutes -
Grief activation is what happens when a stranger’s suicide in the news knocks the wind out of you in seconds, the way only your own suicide loss usually…
15–22 minutes -
Writing an obituary after suicide loss may be the hardest thing you ever write, and you may have almost no time to do it. Real wording options for…
27–40 minutes -
Substances and suicide loss raise one of the hardest questions a survivor can carry. Did a substance play a role. This post looks at what a toxicology report…
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Long term healing after suicide loss does not follow a set timeline, though it does happen. If you are counting days, weeks, or years since your own loss,…
15–23 minutes -
Out-of-network therapy after suicide loss does not have to mean going without. Your grief therapist may not take insurance, but many plans still pay back a real share…
16–24 minutes
