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5 Ways Suicide Grief Is Different

5 Ways Suicide Grief is Different A Note About This Blog I write that I might heal my grief over losing my only child, my 20-year-old son, to suicide June 25, 2012. The beautiful photographs of flowers, shrubs, and trees in bloom throughout the seasons are from my gardens. Gardening, taking photos, and writing poems, […]

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Index: My Forever Son

Index: My Forever Son This index provides a well-structured and user-friendly way to navigate through the content in the My Forever Son blog. Think of it as a helpful guide, carefully organizing the content into headings, subheadings, keywords, and brief descriptions. With this index, you can quickly and efficiently find exactly what you’re looking for. […]

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

Help, Hope, Healing After Suicide Loss: Support, Books, Resources Few things can so devastate us as the suicide of a loved one, especially of one’s own child. Ron Rolheiser, When Someone is Too Bruised to Be Touched Support After Suicide Loss If You’ve Lost a Loved One to Suicide, These Resources May Be Helpful If […]

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11 Years After Suicide Loss: I Still Want to Believe

11 Years After Suicide Loss: I Still Want to Believe About This Poem Hope and Loss I Still Want to Believe is a poem that reflects on my grief and longing for my son who died by suicide. The poem captures my desire to believe in hope and the pain of carrying the darkness of […]

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Bury My Heart-A Poem about Losing a Child

Bury My Heart-A Poem About Losing A Child Bury My Heart (for Dylan) Bury my heart I’ve come undone,Sorting through this lifeMy son left behind.And what I’m seeking I know I’ll never find,His touch, his smile—His still living his life.And so instead I sift throughA still-life dream,My heart and life with himForever it seemed.And oh […]

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If Only a Mother’s Love Could Have Saved You-A Poem About Losing a Child

If Only a Mother’s Love Could Have Saved You-A Poem About Losing a Child If Only a Mother’s Love Could Have Saved You Bones bear girth where once, wisdom birthed you. Love shaped curves That held me (and you)—too. If only a mother’s love could have saved you, Been there to catch your heart’s fall, […]

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Surviving the Suicide of Your Child: Support, Resources, Hope

Surviving the Suicide of Your Child: Support, Resources, Hope Summary and Introduction This post provides valuable information and resources for parents who have lost a child to suicide. It shares the author’s personal experience and offers suggestions for support and healing. This post provides important resources for those seeking support and healing after the loss […]

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Suicide Grief: Prolonged Grief Disorder?

Suicide Grief: Prolonged Grief Disorder? Suicide [grief] can be complicated by feelings of guilt, shame, responsibility, rejection, and stigmatization. National Library of Medicine, Grief interventions for people bereaved by suicide: A systematic review What Is Prolonged Grief Disorder? Known as complicated grief until 2022, the DSM-5 now defines complicated grief as Prolonged Grief Disorder. The […]

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I Will Love You Forever Mom

I’ll Love You Forever Mom “I’ll love you forever, I’ll like you for always, as long as I’m living my baby you’ll be.” Robert Munsch, Love Your Forever Three Years Out After Losing Dylan Originally Published 2016 I Will Love You Forever Mom Memorial Dates It has been 3 years of acute agony, pain, and […]

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A Poem About Losing a Child: If Earth Were Sky and Sky Above

A Poem About Losing a Child: If Earth Were Sky and Sky Above If earth were sky and sky above Then heart could hold this ache of love, Suspended, like rain, in clouds wanting to fall, But bound to sun’s joy because heart touches all. I fall ‘ere so slowly most cannot yet tell My […]

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As I Tuck You In: A Song About Child Loss

As I Tuck You In: A Song About Child Loss My Child on Earth Above in Heaven’s Care (As I Tuck You In) Lyrics to My Child on Earth Above in Heaven’s Care (As I Tuck You In) My Child on Earth Above in Heaven’s Care (As I Tuck You In) As I tuck you […]

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Find Hope Here: Poems About Losing a Child to Suicide

Find Hope Here: Poems About Losing a Child to Suicide Download 3 Free Poems About Child Loss A Lullaby for My Son: As I Tuck You In Get the Book of Poems:

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The Holidays Descend: Suicide Never Ends

The Holidays Descend: Suicide Never Ends (A Long Read Post) And so it is I checked out last night, hoisted the white flag, decided the last thing I could really do is hole up and write, knowing I needed to walk but not having the wherewithal to walk here at home on my treadmill. So […]

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Quiet Tears at 3 Years

Quiet Tears at 3 Years Your beat of heart hersNow her own to live on,Sick pulse of acheholding death in her arms. Beth Brown, My Forever Son, If Only a Mother’s Love Could Have Saved You, A Poem About Losing a Child 3 Years of Infinite Tears You are a “survivor of suicide,” and as […]

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Beat Still My Heart: A Poem About Losing My Son to Suicide

Beat Still My Heart: A Poem About Losing My Son to Suicide Beat Still My Heart Beat still my heart, Beat still my mind, Weary though thou art, Carry his love along with thine, Though heavy on thy shoulders Crost fields throughout all time. In the deepest dark of the bleakest night, If light there […]

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Living Backwards Going Forward-Year 3

Living Backwards Going Forward-Year 3 A Sense of the Surreal Living Backwards Going Forward means that in the strangest of ways, it is always, for me, June 25th, 2012. Or some time before that. All the way back to March 1992 and up to June 2012. I suppose to some effect, my life is indeed […]

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Carrying Ache and Love in Suicide Loss

Carrying Ache and Love in Suicide Loss Now, after all this time, Ache and Love walk together in my heart. Holding hands, one is never without the other, but ache and love have carried me—and carry me still.  Beth Brown, My Forever Son Carrying Ache My life both imploded and exploded the day Dylan died. […]

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You’re Free Now Child: A Song About Child Loss

You’re Free Now Child: A Song About Child Loss ABOUT THIS POST: The content is a heartfelt song about child loss, accompanied by a personal story and related poems and book recommendation. The inclusion of personal experiences adds depth to the post. The lyrics express the ongoing pain of grieving and the longing for the […]

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Songs for Child Loss

Songs for Child Loss ABOUT THIS POST: The content of the blog post is focused on sharing personal experiences and emotions related to losing a child to suicide. It includes heartfelt songs and their lyrics. The post also mentions a book of poems about losing a child to suicide that is available on Amazon Kindle. […]

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5 Years, Infinite Tears

5 Years, Infinite Tears Losing Dylan has changed everything. Yes, I am to the point of feeling the highs of life again, though never so sweetly as to silence the ache of my heart that beats still for my son. Beth Brown, My Forever Son, 5 Years, Infinite Tears 5 Years, Infinite Tears This dark, […]

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I Want to Believe

I Want to Believe I want to believe–that with enough love and laughter, books and reading, friends and family, children grow up to be happy I want to believe–the stage is set early for dreams to come true: Skies dazzle in brilliant blue, clouds drift idly, stretches of pastures and woodlands lend serenity I want […]