Tweet 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. [...]
Survivor Q & A: Gretchen Kubacky
November 29th, 2011 · 2 Comments · Giving Back, Humor/Laughter, Inspiration, Suicide Awareness
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Survivor Q & A: Laura Velez
January 19th, 2011 · 8 Comments · Giving Back, Inspiration, Suicide Awareness
Tweet 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 [...]
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Remembering Them
April 30th, 2009 · 23 Comments · Confessions, Giving Back, Inspiration, Soap Box, Suicide Awareness
Tweet Have you lost a loved one? What action have you taken to honor their memory and their life? How do you keep the love you shared with them alive? Whether your loved one died of natural causes, disease or even by suicide, survivors, mourners and the grief stricken look for ways to keep the [...]
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Christa’s article featured on Open to Hope
December 1st, 2008 · 3 Comments · Suicide Awareness
Tweet 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 [...]
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Suicide Survivors Guilt
October 12th, 2008 · 9 Comments · Suicide Awareness
Tweet 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, and my ‘Coulda, Woulda, Shoulda‘ complex. This is a long post so unless you are an SOS, survivor of suicide, you may want [...]
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