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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Witnessing or discovering a suicide leaves something in you that ordinary grief support rarely reaches. The images that return without warning, the guilt of having been there, the…
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Memorial Day after suicide loss brings grief no ceremony was designed to hold. The flags are out, the grill is ready, and someone who was always at your…
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Seventeen years after losing my son John to suicide, I’m approaching a milestone I’ve never seen named anywhere. I call it the Balance Point, the day when I…
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If grief after suicide loss feels different from what you expected, trauma may be part of the reason. This post explains what trauma after suicide loss actually looks…
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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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