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Sometimes, when I meet someone new and they find out about the work I do with survivors of suicide loss, they will ask: “How can you do that work … day after day? It has to be extremely taxing and so very sad.” I always answer “No” … that I feel honored as well as […]

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When my husband ended his life in 2007, he ended mine, too. We had been married for 33 years, and our lives were completely wrapped up in each other and our two daughters. On his death, I went into a place I had never imagined existed, a limbo world where I was separated from everything […]

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Almost everyone has heard of Elisabeth Kubler-Ross’s five stages of grief—denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. The stages were originally developed in her 1969 book On Death and Dying to describe the emotional journey of patients facing their own terminal illnesses, not for those grieving a loss. Yet, over time, this model has been widely—and ...


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