Offering hope, comfort and support for survivors of suicide loss.
There are a number of emotions that consume us after losing a loved one to suicide. We talk about pain, sadness, and guilt, but anger often gets swept to the side. It took me a long time to feel angry. I spent a great deal of time feeling overwhelming sadness knowing that my dad's pain was so great that suicide felt like his only option. How can you be angry with someone in that kind of pain? So when the anger hit me, I was left asking, "Why ...
In the wake of losing our dads to suicide in 2011, we met at a local support group for newly bereaved young adults. In the years since, we’ve bonded over our grief and committed to helping others navigate their journeys as survivors. Saturday, November 19, 2016 marks International Survivors of Suicide Day and we wanted to share how our experience as survivors over the past few years has reframed how we perceive and acknowledge the day.
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As survivors of a suicide loss, we all know the what the other side of grief looks like. It isn't always pretty. I am beyond excited to be a part of a video series that offers hope to those who have been touched by suicide. Here is a great chance to learn more about how to navigate grief to find hope and happiness again.
Here are some tools that you will learn:
Recognize grief can be used as a transformation process to reach a ...
Survivors of a suicide loss are susceptible to “grief attacks,” when the emotional impact of a loved one’s death strikes without warning. I experienced these commonly in the early weeks, months and years following my dad’s death. Some days, they were prompted by a song playing on the radio while I drove in the car. Other days, it was the stark realization he is gone forever. Now that I am five years out, I find that my emotional reactions to his ...
Dealing with guilt after suicide is a topic I often write about on our blog. It is described as the "crippling" emotion; an emotion that leaves a person feeling a sense of remorse. On my own grief journey, I found guilt to be the most difficult emotion to work through. Hence why I write about this topic so frequently. I have not only questioned my own role in my dad's suicide, but also how much control I actually had in preventing this tragic ...
