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Prioritizing your physical, emotional, and spiritual wellbeing through intentional self-care practices becomes essential yet often feels impossible or even wrong when grieving suicide loss. Self-care includes basics like adequate sleep, proper nutrition, gentle exercise, and medical care, but extends to emotional needs like therapy and support groups, creative expression, time in nature, saying no to obligations, setting boundaries, and allowing yourself pleasure without guilt. Understanding that caring for yourself isn’t selfish but necessary for survival helps overcome resistance to self-care that many grieving survivors experience.

  • Navigating Halloween After Suicide Loss

    As October arrives and Halloween decorations begin appearing in stores and neighborhoods, many suicide loss survivors find themselves facing an unexpected wave of difficult emotions. What was once…

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    3–5 minutes

  • Finding Our Way Through National Suicide Prevention Month

    “Awareness is about remembering, honoring, and breaking silence — not about asking survivors to relive guilt.” The Complicated Reality of September Each September, communities across the country observe…

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    3–5 minutes

  • Picking Up the Pieces: Rebuilding Life After Suicide Loss

    When Your World Shatters: Understanding the Trauma Experiencing the loss of a loved one to suicide is a profound trauma, one that shatters the world as you knew…

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    4–5 minutes

  • Self Care

    In the aftermath of losing a loved one to suicide, it’s all too easy to lose sight of your own well-being. The shock, trauma, and overwhelming grief can…

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    1–2 minutes