Offering hope, comfort and support for survivors of suicide loss.
I do not need to tell you how difficult life after suicide is. We are pulled in many directions as we try and make sense of what just happened. Our brain is put in overdrive as we try and conceptualize how this could have happened to us. We often talk about the anger and sorrow we feel in the aftermath of traumatic loss. Guilt and shame play a leading role in our grief story often impacting our ability to not only forgive our loved one, but ...
Glinda, says it best. Finding inner strength after loss often feels like an impossible task. We are told time and time again, "It will get better" yet it often feels like it won't. For this week's Motivational Monday, we remind you that you DO have strength, you DO have power, and YOU WILL persevere. You just have to peel away the layers, and find it. ...
My blood is boiling. I’m no stranger to aloof innuendos and comments about suicide in society, but lately I feel like they’ve reached epidemic proportions. I work for a large corporation with an office in downtown Chicago. I don’t know if it’s just my colleagues or corporate America in general, but suicide-related terms seem to be commonplace. And, frankly, I’m over it…
My dad has been gone for three-and-a-half years now, so I’ve heard many a ...
Finding happiness after suicide can be difficult as we are torn between overwhelming feeling of sadness and guilt. For this week's Motivational Monday we wanted to remind everyone that there is still beauty in this world. This week we hope you all take a minute to find the beauty that still exists. It doesn't matter how big or small; all the matters is that it makes you smile and reminds you that beauty lives on even after the loss of your ...
Grief following suicide sucks doesn't it? I mean nobody really wants to lose anyone they love, rather it is by natural causes or some tragic manner like suicide. But it happens. Death is a part of life. After I lost my father, I was taken on a journey that I never saw coming. I am a planner; someone who likes predictability. Natural death, while extremely sad, is predictable. When I lost my grandmother, a woman who I spent my life ...
