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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Seventeen Good Fridays have passed since we lost our son John. Over those years, I have come to understand that healing after suicide loss travels three separate roads:…
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Their birthday is coming, and you already feel it. A birthday after suicide loss sits apart from every other hard day on the calendar, because it asks you…
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You’d read about the five stages of grief and expected to find yourself in them. What you found instead was guilt, sleepless nights, and questions with no answers.…
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For many survivors, the word “acceptance” stops them cold after a suicide loss. Acknowledging what happened is not the same thing as accepting it, and that distinction can…
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Research consistently shows that most people who died by suicide were living with a mental health condition, often undiagnosed and unseen by everyone around them. This post walks…
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Many survivors carry a question they can barely put into words. The person they lost was one room over. The house was quiet. Nothing registered as a warning.…
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When a family loses someone to suicide, the death happens to everyone at once. But the grief that follows doesn’t look the same for any two people in…
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Many suicide loss survivors asked directly. They looked the person in the eye and asked if they were thinking about suicide. They were told no. Research on suicide…
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If you have lost a friend to suicide and found that the world around you treats your grief as somehow secondary to the family’s, this post puts words…
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If you have been hurt by something said to you after your loss and cannot quite explain to others why certain words land so hard, this post validates…
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