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

Post author By Beth Brown
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

Post author By Beth Brown
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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Remembering Dylan: Twenty Years

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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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Memorial Dates: Reflections at 8 Years After Losing My Son

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Post date July 15, 2022
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Memorial Dates “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 you feel […]

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Travel On My Brave Soldier-A Poem of Hope

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Post date June 30, 2022
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Travel On Travel on my brave soldier Travel on wild one Take heart winged warrior Unencumbered take great strides. Ride dragon’s wings forever Stay free here evermore Follow infinity to the heavens Travel on to safer shores. ©Beth Brown, 2022 First time here? Listen to a Song

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The Unbearable Ache of Memorial Dates

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Post date June 1, 2022
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The Unbearable Ache of Memorial Dates Now I know what day it is I wish I didn’t I am not in the moment Indeed, I am not Here really Here anywhere really Lost, just so terribly, terribly, terribly lost Wanting to save you Dylan All over again Grief Remembers What Time Cannot Forget: Memorial Dates […]

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A Glimpse of Hope: “Letting Go” In Grief

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Post date March 27, 2022
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A Glimpse of Hope: Letting Go in Grief 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 A Glimpse of Hope: Letting Go in Grief Some days, I lift my hands, my arms high, offering my […]

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

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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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“When Someone is Too Bruised to Be Touched”-On Suicide and Despair

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Post date January 18, 2022
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Suicide is Not a Choice: Surviving Infinite Grief After the Suicide of My Child

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Post date January 14, 2022
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Surviving Your Child’s Suicide Suicide is Not a Choice 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 The Stigma of Suicide As much as […]

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The Pain of Suicide: It’s Not About Wanting to Die, It’s About Wanting the Pain to Stop

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Post date January 14, 2022
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The Pain of Suicide: It's Not About Wanting to Die, It's About Wanting to Live

The Pain of Suicide Video: Learning More About Suicide 10 Commonalities of Suicide Below are 10 commonalities of suicide, identified by suicide expert, Edwin Shneidman, author of The Suicidal Mind. “The Suicidal Mind” by Edwin Shneidman The suicide of a child of any age presents unique circumstances that can intensify and prolong the mourning process […]

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Struggling with Guilt After Your Child’s Suicide: “A True Tale of 2 Mothers”

Post author By Beth Brown
Post date December 21, 2021
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Struggling with Guilt in Suicide Grief Parents of children who die by suicide often battle anadded type of guilt. Even if they do not blame themselvesfor not directly intervening in the suicidal act, they often feelguilt over some perceived mistake in raising their children.“Where did I go wrong?,” “I pushed them too hard.” and“If we […]

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A Poem about Losing a Child to Suicide-“If Only a Mother’s Love Could Have Saved You”

Post author By Beth Brown
Post date December 16, 2021
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“If Only a Mother’s Love Could Have Saved You” by Beth Brown Bones bear girth where once, love birthed you, arms cradled and rocking, love holding me to you. If only a mother’s love could have saved you, been there to catch your fall tears stilled by the heavens to where now and forever, […]

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Rising Up-Because Love Lives Forever

Post author By Beth Brown
Post date November 12, 2021
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Yellow Rose in Full Bloom

Rising Up because… Love lives forever. My son lives yet still. I will be with Dylan again. As long I live, Dylan lives too. Dylan lives on through all that I am. Dylan’s voice is now my own. Beth Brown, My Forever Son Rising Up because… I will not let the world forget my son […]

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“Bury My Heart”-A Poem about Losing a Child

Post author By Beth Brown
Post date October 21, 2021
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“Bury My Heart” (for Dylan) Bury my heart I’ve come undone Sorting through this life My 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 through A still life dream My heart and life with him Forever it […]

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About Dylan

“Sometimes I touch the things you used to touch, looking for echoes of your fingers.” Iain Thomas A Poem about Losing a Child-Once Upon a Blue-Sky Moon Once Upon a Blue-Sky Moon A Poem for Dylan by Beth Brown And once upon a blue-sky moon, We sailed our ships in your bedroom, With stars for […]

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“When Someone Takes His Own Life”-Depression and Suicide

Post author By Beth Brown
Post date July 24, 2021
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“When Someone Takes His Own Life” Excerpt from “The Healing of Sorrow” Norman Vincent Peale In many ways, this seems the most tragic form of death. Certainly it can entail more shock and grief for those who are left behind than any other. And often the stigma of suicide is what rests most heavily on […]

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