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Survivor Q & A: Erica Volkman

October 13th, 2009 · No Comments · Giving Back, Suicide Awareness

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 can overcome [...]

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Christa’s article featured on Open to Hope

December 1st, 2008 · 3 Comments · Suicide Awareness

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 and [...]

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Suicide Survivors Guilt

October 12th, 2008 · 9 Comments · Suicide Awareness

Part 3 of my Suicide Awareness and Survivor Support series focuses on the guilt survivors of suicide experience. In this case, I talk about my guilt for not taking the handgun my friend Jim used to kill himself.
This is a long post so unless you are an SOS, survivor of suicide, you may want to hit the pass button on this one. [...]

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