Tag: healing process

Healing from suicide loss is a non-linear, lifelong process that doesn’t follow predictable timelines or progress steadily forward without setbacks. Healing doesn’t mean forgetting, being “over it,” or returning to who you were before. Instead, it involves gradually learning to carry grief while also engaging in life, developing capacity to hold both pain and joy, creating meaning from tragedy, and building identity that includes loss without being entirely defined by it. Understanding that healing coexists with ongoing grief, that “better” doesn’t mean “fixed,” and that progress isn’t always visible helps survivors trust the process even when it feels impossibly slow.