Category: Practical Guidance

The Practical Guidance category provides concrete, actionable advice for managing the daily challenges and major decisions that arise after suicide loss, offering specific strategies and realistic solutions when concentration is impaired by grief and everything feels impossibly difficult. These posts address real-world questions including how to handle difficult conversations and intrusive questions, what to say when people ask how you’re doing or about cause of death, managing logistics of holidays and gatherings when emotional capacity is depleted, navigating work and social obligations during acute grief, deciding what to do with photographs and belongings, handling digital legacy and social media accounts, telling your story on your own terms with boundaries that protect you, finding and connecting with support groups and professional resources, and surviving specific situations from the conspiracy of silence to well-meaning but harmful comments. Rather than abstract concepts about grief, these posts offer tangible tools, prepared responses, step-by-step approaches, and permission to do things differently than expected, acknowledging that suicide loss survivors need practical help for immediate challenges alongside emotional support for long-term healing.