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Beyond Surviving: Suggestions for Survivors

Post author By Beth Brown
Post date September 21, 2022
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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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Self-Blame and Guilt-I Couldn’t Save My Son

Post author By Beth Brown
Post date March 5, 2022
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Self-Blame and Guilt: I Couldn’t Save My Son I can’t stop thinking about how much he suffered—and my own inability to save him. Lori Gottlieb, “I Blame Myself for My Son’s Death,” The Atlantic, September 7, 2020 It’s been nearly 10 years since I lost my only son to suicide. Had someone suggested in my […]

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

Post author By Beth Brown
Post date January 20, 2022
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The Pain Does Change “To those of you that still feel you aren’t even sure you want to behere and you can’t imagine ever being happy again. The pain doeschange, it softens. You will want to live again and be able to enjoylife again. It will never be like before but the crushing, allconsuming pain […]

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Holiday Grief Series-Handling Holiday Grief After A Child’s Suicide

Post author By Beth Brown
Post date December 10, 2021
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Celebrating the Holidays Mother and Child “Mother and Child”–A beautiful Christmas carol once upon a blue-sky moon. How much I wish my heart could still sing “Silent Night.” Now only “Mother without Child.” Still a mother but having lost her child. Still a holiday season of expectations. A season rich with symbolic meaning. A season […]

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Suicide Changes Everything-Struggling to Survive Grief After the Suicide of My Son

Post author By Beth Brown
Post date November 26, 2021
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My Forever Son-My Beloved Dylan Suicide Shocks and Shatters Suicide changes everything. Immediately. Suddenly. Completely. Shattering everything. All is outside the natural order of the circle of life. And when a young person dies by suicide? When a young man or woman takes their life, all who knew them gasp in shock. The means of […]

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Got Grief? Myths, Fallacies, and Expectations

Post author By Beth Brown
Post date January 1, 2021
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“What if we never ‘get over’ certain deaths, or our childhoods? What if the idea that we should have by now, or will, is a great palace lie? What if we’re not supposed to? What if it takes a life time…?” Anne Lamott “It isn’t true that you have to get over it. It isn’t […]

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Coping with Unfathomable Loss After the Suicide of My Son

Post author By Beth Brown
Post date June 22, 2015
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Where I Am Now after 3 Years of Grieving the Loss of My Son 1,095 Days Out and Still Counting I am the mother of a suicide. And in 4 days, Dylan will have died by suicide 3 years ago. 1,095 days ago. A lifetime, and at the same time, no time at all. Some […]