Author: Beth Brown

Musician. Writer. Literary Connoisseur. Always writing, scribbling poetry, turning feelings into words. "Break my heart even further" can't ever be done, for I lost my heart the night I lost my son. Come find me writing at My Forever Son: Chronicling Grief, Hope, and Healing After Losing My Son to Suicide.

At the whim of Most Beloved Cat, I write as she tattles on the garden cats. Find Most Beloved Cat sharing her stories at Gardens at Effingham: Where Cats Tell the Tales

I Send All the Love My Heart Can Hold: A Poem About Losing A Child

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Post date March 27, 2023
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I Send All the Love My Heart Can Hold, My Forever Son

I Send All the Love My Heart Can Hold: A Poem About Losing a Child This new poem will be included in the forthcoming paperback edition of Suicide: 19 Poems to “Beat Still My Heart.” The Amazon Kindle edition of Suicide: 19 Poems to “Beat Still My Heart” does not include this poem. I Send […]

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Why Suicide — Why? A Mother’s Reflections on Losing Her Son

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Post date March 25, 2023
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Stella Magnolia Blooming in High Winds and Storm Clouds

Dylan Andrew Brown, age 18Forever my beloved sonMarch 19, 1992-June 25, 2012 The beat of my heart shaped by you.The song of you which still now I sing.And yet perhaps you could not hear above The deafening roar of your heart’s ache. . Ghost Memories Swirl Everywhere I drove home last night past the high […]

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When Do Suicides Go Up? Summer, Forever Summer

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Post date March 25, 2023
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Lemon Balm Herb in Late Summer

When Do Suicides Go Up? Summer, Forever Summer There is a common belief that suicide occurs most often in the cold months, especially around Thanksgiving, Christmas and other winter holidays. This is actually a misconception, however, as suicide rates often increase during the spring and summer. Centerstone, How Summer Affects Suicide Rates Cusp of Summer […]

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Download 3 Free Poems From Suicide: 19 Poems to “Beat Still My Heart”

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Post date March 23, 2023
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Download 3 Free Poems from Suicide: 19 Poems to “Beat Still My Heart” Download 3 Free Poems from Suicide: 19 Poems to “Beat Still My Heart.” Includes 3 poems from the E-Book, Suicide: 19 Poems to “Beat Still My Heart” by Beth Brown, Author of My Forever Son: Chronicling Grief, Hope, and Healing After Losing […]

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Suicide: 19 Poems to “Beat Still My Heart”

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Post date March 20, 2023
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Suicide: 19 Poems to “Beat Still My Heart” Suicide: 19 Poems to “Beat Still My Heart” Suicide: 19 Poems to “Beat Still My Heart” reflects a decade of finding my way back (Losing a Child to Suicide: A Sad Welcome) after losing my son to suicide. Reflecting the deep sorrow, grief, and confusion left behind […]

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A Poem About Losing My Child: Sorrow Buried in Love

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Post date December 22, 2022
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Red Rose in June

A Poem About Losing My Child: Sorrow Buried in Love Sorrow Buried in Love So swish to sway to sweet lullaby, Baby will fall in dark of the night. Rocking cradle to grave turning truth upside down: Parents die first leaving children behind. In a world topsy-turvy that cannot make sense, Sacred trust shines the […]

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Holiday Grief Series: “Helping Yourself Heal During the Holiday Season”

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Post date December 16, 2022
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“Helping Yourself Heal During the Holiday Season” By Alan Wolfelt The suggestions below offer practical tips for coping with grief during the holidays. Alan D. Wolfelt, the author of these suggestions, writes prolifically about all aspects of grief. He offers practical suggestions for handling grief (including for teens and kids), and he addresses grief in […]

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Living in the Glare of My Son’s Suicide

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Post date December 13, 2022
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Living in the Glare Listen to Your Narrative It isn’t wrong, this narrative of yours. Isn’t something to be fixed. Adjusted. Changed. Rewritten. God knows you’d rewrite your narrative if you could. Consider the whole thing a tumultuous, torrid first draft. A rough sketch ill-constructed. The consequence lacking intention. Not giving words, shapes, ideas, even […]

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Surviving Grief at the Holidays (Part of the Holiday Grief Series)

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Post date December 8, 2022
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Surviving Grief at the Holidays Tending to a Broken Heart People say, “I can’t imagine.“ But then they do. They think that missing a dead child is like missing your kid at college or on the mission field but harder and longer. That’s not it at all. It isn’t nostalgia for a time when things […]

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“How I Survived the Suicide of My Son: 15 Tips for Grieving Parents”

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Post date November 17, 2022
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Surviving Your Child’s Suicide Marcia Gelman Resnick wrote “How I Survived the Suicide of My Son: 15 Tips for Grieving Parents” in 2019, 20 years after losing her son to suicide. She shares her experience surviving the suicide of her son alongside 15 tips that may be helpful to other parents grieving the loss of […]

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“Bruised and Wounded: Understanding Suicide”

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Post date November 11, 2022
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All death unsettles us, but suicide… brings with it an ache, a chaos, a darkness, and a stigma that has to be experienced to be believed. Ronald Rolheiser Struggling to Understand Suicide Ronald Rolheiser writes a great deal about the suicide. He lends an understanding and spiritual perspective to suicide, and in so doing, removes […]

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5 Years of Grief After Suicide Loss: For Here Now, I Stay

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Post date October 27, 2022
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5 Years of Grief After Suicide Loss: For Here Now, I Stay For Here Now I Stay These dark, incessant droning on of days, months, years, and most sadly of all, a lifetime, more so carve in us (should we choose and choose we must, for grief is not so clearly delineated in its outcome), […]

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Surviving Your Child’s Suicide: Support, Resources, Hope

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Post date October 22, 2022
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Books and Resources

The following resources, book lists, narratives from parents who have lost a child to suicide, support groups, and more are meant to be a resource bank. Many have helped me keep on keeping on these past nine years of grieving.

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Help, Hope, Healing After Suicide Loss: Support, Books, Resources

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Post date October 22, 2022
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If You’ve Lost a Child to Suicide, These Resources May Be Helpful Few things can so devastate us as the suicide of a loved one, especially of one’s own child. Fr Ron Rolheiser Seven Resources for Support If you are having thoughts of suicide, call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 988. (Or 1-800-273-8255 (TALK). […]

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A Poem of Love, Loss, and Healing: Rain Comes to Heal Us All

Post author By Beth Brown
Post date October 21, 2022
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After the Rain

A Healing Poem of Love, Loss, and Forgiveness: Rain Comes to Heal Us All Rain Comes to Heal Us All Rain comes to heal us all, Falling tears from a sky of love, Remembering even when earth forgets To nurture all that we cannot forgive, Bringing love remembered to restore Even flowers that forget how […]

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Remembering

Yellow Rose in Full Bloom

Remembering Even though this house hasn’t been hers for at least five years… Dylan Brown Latest from the Blog

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Grandparents’ Grief After Suicide Loss of Grandchild

Post author By Beth Brown
Post date September 29, 2022
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A Grandparent’s Grief The Family Table I was with my mother when she purchased the sturdy, long, pine table. With two leaves, one for each end of the table, this table would be big enough for our small, close-knit family. My sister and her family, including her two children, plus my parents, plus room now […]

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Beyond Surviving: Suggestions for Survivors

Post author By Beth Brown
Post date September 21, 2022
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Pink Ground Roses

Beyond Surviving: Suggestions for Survivors by Iris M. Bolton (Especially for newly bereaved parents) 2. Struggle with “why” it happened until you no longer need to know “why” or until YOU are satisfied with partial answers. 3. Know you may feel overwhelmed by the intensity of your feelings but that all your feelings are normal. […]

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Remembering Dylan: Twenty Years

Post author By Beth Brown
Post date September 14, 2022
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Remembering Dylan:Twenty Years Twenty Years (Written by my sister, Linda) “Twenty years: from birth, from before birth treasured and loved, Dylan. Held now in God’s hands, held always in God’s hands but oh how I wish him back. In 1991, Beth called to share the news that she was pregnant. Beth had some health issues […]

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Matins: Reflections on Hope After Loss

Post author By Beth Brown
Post date September 5, 2022
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Matins I. Somewhere, out at the edges, the night Is turning and the waves of darkness Begin to brighten the shore of dawn. The heavy dark falls back to earth And the freed air goes wild with light, The heart fills with fresh, bright breath And thoughts stir to give birth to color. II. I arise […]

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