Hi, I’m Beth, and I’m the writer and photographer at My Forever Son: Chronicling Grief, Hope, and Healing After Losing My Son to Suicide.
I lost my only child, my 20-year-old son, Dylan, to suicide 10 years ago. A decade of grief, and a decade of healing enough to find my way back to some semblance of my life.
Ten years is at once both yesterday and today. Over the course of these past 10 years, I’ve come to realize that Dylan’s journey is now my own. Who I am now reflects the intensity of chronicling the grief, hope, and healing of this past decade. I write to heal and to share my experience in the hope that it might help others.
Writing poetry, composing music, photographing flowers, trees, and nature, and sharing my experience through writing is the focus of My Forever Son. You will also find articles, essays, guest posts, and more.
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Poems for A Weary Heart: Child Loss
Poems of Grief, Hope, and Healing After Child Loss to Suicide Poems of grief, hope, and healing after child loss to suicide reflect 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 after losing…
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A Poem About Losing My Child: Sorrow Buried in Love
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”
“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
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)
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”
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”
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 much…
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