Rising from Grief
Embracing Hope and Healing After Suicide Loss
Rising from Grief: Embracing Hope and Healing After Suicide Loss
Rising from Grief: Embracing Hope and Healing After Suicide Loss
ABOUT THIS POST: Rising from Grief: Embracing Hope and Healing After Suicide Loss offers valuable resources and personal insights into the journey of hope and healing after the devastating loss of suicide. The inclusion of personal narratives, poems, songs, and reflections creates a comprehensive and empathetic approach to addressing this sensitive topic.
The author's personal experience adds credibility to the content and may resonate deeply with readers who have gone through similar experiences. Additionally, the inclusion of resources such as the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention and the Nationwide Children's Hospital Suicide Research Center adds significant value to the content, providing support and resources for healing.
The author's progression over the years offers a message of resilience and perseverance, which can be inspiring to others who are undergoing similar grief.
Of Special Note: Rising from Grief: Embracing Hope and Healing After Suicide Loss includes both a compendium of key resources about hope, healing, and finding resilience after suicide loss and a selection of compelling posts from My Forever Son: Chronicling Grief, Hope, and Healing After Losing My Son to Suicide. These posts from this blog guide readers towards personal narratives, poems, songs, and relevant reflections about finding hope and healing after suicide loss.
The author, a mother who lost her only child, her twenty-year-old son, to suicide eleven years ago, is an award-winning writer whose book of poems about losing a child to suicide has received widespread acclaim and recognition. The book, Bury My Heart: Poems About Losing a Child to Suicide, is available now on Amazon Kindle.
ABOUT THIS BLOG: I started My Forever Son: Chronicling Grief, Hope, and Healing After Losing My Son to Suicide in 2015, three years into my grief after losing my son to suicide. Seeking hope and healing came from journaling my way through my grief and posting it online. In 2019, I began adding original poems about losing a child to suicide, and in 2022, added original songs about losing a child to suicide.
After eleven years of grief work that includes working one-on-one with a professional therapist, joining local grief support groups, and joining the online community of parents who have lost a child to suicide, I find myself in a vastly different space than where I was in the beginning of grief.
I've written about the early years of acute, agonizing grief throughout this blog. Somewhere along the way through sleepless nights and endless tears, I found I was carrying both ache and love for my son. His story is my story, and in being present in my own life, I am walking out both his life and mine.
ABOUT THESE POSTS OF HOPE AND HEALING: Rising from Grief: Embracing Hope and Healing After Suicide Loss: Hope and Healing seem impossible in early grief, in the middle years of grief, even, at times, after more than a decade of grief. But talk, tears, and time have moved me towards finding hope, even the smallest glimpses of hope, in keeping on keeping on after losing Dylan. I cannot imagine my life without my son in it, and in coming through the thick of grief, I find my son still with me. Dylan will always be with me, and as long as I live, he does too.
American Foundation for Suicide Prevention: A nonprofit organization dedicated to saving lives and bringing hope to those affected by suicide.
The American Association of Suicidology: A membership organization focused on the understanding and prevention of suicide.
Nationwide Children's Hospital Suicide Research Center: Conducts research aimed at reducing suicidal behaviors and preventing suicide.
Parents of Suicides: A network of parents who have lost a child to suicide, offering support and resources for healing.
These resources offer support, hope, and healing after suicide loss. They provide books, support, and important resources to assist those affected by the tragedy of suicide.
Help, Hope, Healing After Suicide Loss: Support, Books, Resources
Surviving the Suicide of Your Child: Support, Resources, Hope
Hope is Found Here: Poignant Posts About Finding Hope and Healing from my blog, My Forever Son.
Find Hope Here: Poems About Losing a Child to Suicide
Find Hope Here: Poems About Losing a Child to Suicide is a collection of poems I’ve written about losing a child to suicide. I lost my 20-year-old son, my only child, to suicide June 25, 2012. Suicide changes everything. Reflecting on Grief…
Matins: Reflections on Hope After Loss Reflections on Hope After Loss
Matins (by John O’Donohue)
Morning Prayer 1 Somewhere, out at the edges, the night is turning and the waves of darkness Begin to brighten on the shore of dawn. The heavy dark falls back to earth And the freed air goes wild with light,…
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, “Understanding Suicide” On the Wings of Hope Some days, I lift my hands, my arms high, offering my child up to…
Finding Hope, Healing, and Resilience in Nature
Finding Hope, Healing, and Resilience in Nature is deeply moving, capturing the emotional journey of finding hope and healing through nature following the loss of a loved one. The heartfelt connection to nature is beautifully expressed, and the photographs complement the written text well. Finding Hope, Healing, and Resilience in Nature Healing…
Resilience Is Living in the Glare of My Son’s Suicide
Resilience Is Living in the Glare of My Son’s Suicide provides a deeply emotional and personal experience of a mother who lost her only child to suicide. Focusing on the enduring impact of this tragedy on her life, the author highlights the…
Surviving the Suicide of Your Child: Support, Resources, Hope
ABOUT THIS POST: Surviving the Suicide of Your Child: Support, Resources, Hope is about surviving the suicide of a child, offering a comprehensive resource for parents dealing with the deeply challenging experience. Personal stories, resource recommendations, and support options make it a valuable source of comfort…
Travel On My Brave Soldier-A Poem of Hope
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.
That we all might find peace,
Beth Brown
All photographs are from my gardens, except the butterfly watercolor art.
Find me blogging at My Forever Son: Chronicling Grief, Hope, and Healing After Losing My Son to Suicide.
HOPE means Hold On Pain Eases