Suicide Survivor Series with Gretchen Kubacky In March 2009 I started a Q & A series in order to bring awareness and healing to those who lost a loved one to suicide.  With a 5 question and answer format my goal was simple: provide hope, guidance and comfort to recent survivors of suicide loss. The [...]

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Suicide Survivor Series: Part 6 In March 2009 I started a Q & A series to bring awareness and healing to those who lost a loved one to suicide.  With a 5 question and answer format my goal was simple: provide hope, guidance and comfort to recent survivors of suicide looking for answers after loss. [...]

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Been a while since I walked down the hall of the Survivor Q & A series, that’s suicide survivor – someone who lost a loved one to suicide, not a person who tried to kill themselves. As many of you know, in 2005 my good friend Jim Thompson died by suicide. His death rocked my [...]

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Moving Through Grief and back into the Giggle Earlier this year I posted some questions to my fellow survivors of suicide in an effort to better understand the grieving process and to gain tips and insight about moving through grief and hopefully, back into the Giggle. No one dodges loss in life completely but we [...]

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Neil Chethik, one of the editors at Open to Hope, contacted me last month to ask permission to post my article Suicide Survivor’s Guilt on their web site. Open to Hope provides information and resources for people who have experienced loss. They provide a forum where people who have experienced loss can learn from and help each other [...]

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