Find Hope After Suicide Loss

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Find Hope After Suicide Loss

Hold Onto Hope-Grief Comes to Stay

When you lose your child, there is nothingness, the descent into the abyss of losing not just your child, but also yourself Beth, Dylan’s Mom, My Forever Son Grief is Unfinished Others can come alongside us for awhile, but our journey into the deep, dark night must be our own. Here, we rally against the darkness, awaken our soul’s…

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On the Wings of Hope: A Resurrection Fable

I Am Always With You The Fable of the Dragonfly The Story of the Dragonfly The story of the dragonfly, an oft-told fable of the transformation of the dragonfly, has long been used to explain death and instill hope. Down below the surface of a quiet pond lived a little colony of water bugs. They…

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Books for Loss Survivors

Loss Survivors A Note About Terminology: Loss Survivors are also called Survivors of Suicide–a confusing term used to depict those left behind after the suicide of a loved one. Using Loss Survivors as a term clarifies the confusion between the semantics of Survivors of Suicide–who are loss survivors–and Suicide Survivors (those who have attempted suicide…

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What to Say to Parents Who Lose a Child to Suicide

What to Say to Parents Who Lose a Child to Suicide Suicide can leave the survivors with anger, confusion and guilt, and even well-intentioned words can cause pain.By Gayle Brandeis, “What to Say (and Not to Say) to Someone Grieving a Suicide” New York Times, May 8, 2019 How to Offer Grief Support When a…

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Find Hope Here: Featuring Poems About Losing a Child

Find Hope Here: Featuring Poems About Losing a Child I write to heal the deep soul wound of losing a child. I find hope here, through writing, and healing in the way poetry shapes words. I hope you do, too. Find Hope Here: Featuring Poems About Losing a Child If Only a Mother’s Love Could…

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Surviving Suicide Grief: “Does the Pain Ever End?”

Surviving Suicide Grief: “Does the Pain Ever End?” The Pain Does Change “To those of you that still feel you aren’t even sure you want to be here and you can’t imagine ever being happy again. The pain does change, it softens. You will want to live again and be able to enjoylife again. It…

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Grieving the Suicide Loss of a Child: Helpful Grief Tips

And can it be in a world so full and busy the loss of one creature makes a void so wide and deep that nothing but the width and depth of eternity can fill it up. Charles Dickens If love could have saved you, you would have lived forever. Adopt Healthy Coping Strategies The aftermath…

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Suicide is Not a Choice: Surviving Your Child’s Suicide

Suicide is Not a Choice: Surviving Your Child’s Suicide Current research absolutely supports the validity of mental illness. Current research and researchers in the mental health field know indelibly that suicide is not a choice your child makes. Beth Brown, My Forever Son Stopping the Stigma of Suicide As much as I respect and value…

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