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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“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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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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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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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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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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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…
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It comes up in our support group. Maybe not in the first months, and sometimes not for years, but it comes up. Someone says, almost in a whisper,…
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What Healing After Suicide Loss Actually Looks Like A few weeks ago, a meme scrolled past me on Facebook. It asked a simple question: “Which is more important,…
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Somewhere between centuries of fear and the mercy at the heart of the Gospel, sits one of the most painful questions a Catholic suicide loss survivor ever asks.…
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There is a moment, somewhere in the middle of a wedding reception, when the music is loud and the room is full of light and people are laughing…
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