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# Making Peace with Suicide

A Book of Hope, Understanding, and Comfort

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- [Suicide Notes -- Voices from the Past](https://makingpeacewithsuicide.com/suicide-notes-voices-from-the-past/) - The numbers vary, but we know it the minority of people (25-33%) who leave a suicide note. They can sometimes serve as a gift of compassion and understanding.
- [12 things you should know about Suicide](https://makingpeacewithsuicide.com/12-things-you-should-know-about-suicide/) - Suicide is a dirty word, mired in judgment, shame, and taboo. It is often whispered or, even, denied (“Oh, he died of heart attack.”) or avoided (“She died suddenly.”). Given the staggering statistics, isn’t it time we take suicide out of the closet and bring it into the light? Isn’t it time we begin the
- [The power of connection and caring](https://makingpeacewithsuicide.com/a-very-good-ending/) - We never know exactly how life will unfold nor understand the differences we can make, and how one chance meeting can save a life.
- [13 Everyday Ways to Prevent Suicide](https://makingpeacewithsuicide.com/suicide-prevention-month-and-13-everyday-ways/) - We are more powerful than we often realize. Here are some possibilities to add to your awareness.
- [The 7 Points On The Spectrum Of Suicide](https://makingpeacewithsuicide.com/the-7-points-on-the-spectrum-of-suicide/) - Every three seconds, on average, someone is attempting suicide, according to research out of India. The numbers of suicide attempts are exponentially higher than the number of completed suicides, which average every 13 seconds across the globe per the World Health Organization (WHO). Tragically, every minute of every day is influenced by some aspect of
- [The many faces of suicide](https://makingpeacewithsuicide.com/the-many-faces-of-suicide/) - Suicide asks us to accept the unacceptable, the inconceivable, the horrific and make peace with it. Suicide This means no judgment, castigation and punishment.
- [A Psychologist’s Suicide](https://makingpeacewithsuicide.com/a-psychologists-suicide/) - The word came that a friend and colleague, a clinical psychologist, had committed suicide. She had suffered a hammering of profound losses and fell into a deep hole of depression. She had placed herself in good professional hands, was hospitalized for two weeks, and released with medications and a discharge summary that she, herself, could
- [The five reminders from loss](https://makingpeacewithsuicide.com/the-five-reminders-from-loss/) - The hard-flint beauty of loss is that it serves as a teacher. Loss reminds us of what can become "back-burnered" in the daily press of life.
- [Held and remembered](https://makingpeacewithsuicide.com/lost-and-found/) - Compassionate words of wisdom speak to the heart that is held and pulled in everyday life.
- [The Path of Grief](https://makingpeacewithsuicide.com/the-path-of-grief/) - Grief is an idiosyncratic process that breaks us down and pulls us into our deepest depths. It's a game changer for the heart.
- [There is only one response](https://makingpeacewithsuicide.com/there-is-only-one-response/) - Too often suicide is met with judgment, criticism, shame, and taboo. Suicide is the result of a confluence of stressors, circumstances, and experiences. It is an individual response to pain of every shape, size, and dimension. Suicide leaves a rippling wake of shock, horror, and grief. Isn't it time we pull suicide out of the
- [Grief is akin to pulling on your hip waders](https://makingpeacewithsuicide.com/grief-is-akin-to-pulling-on-your-hip-waders/) - Grief is walking into the deep, murky water of your psyche, the home of your inner life.
- [Go gently with your big heart](https://makingpeacewithsuicide.com/go-gently-with-your-big-heart/) - Grief is a serpentine path. Go gently and lovingly as you allow your heart to lead the way.
- [And, still you stand: An Ode to Grief](https://makingpeacewithsuicide.com/and-still-you-stand-an-ode-to-grief/) - Loss hammered you incessantly. Grief hollowed you out until you were gasping for breath, empty and fully spent. Your heart was broken and battered into a heap of crumbled bits and pieces. And still, you stood. Anguish carved you open in unexpected and totally disorienting ways. You lost your footing; you lost your way. Nothing
- [The connection between suicide and childhood sexual abuse](https://makingpeacewithsuicide.com/the-connection-between-suicide-and-childhood-sexual-abuse/) - Circling the international news is the story of the assisted suicide of a young Dutch woman due to long-term childhood sexual abuse.
- [This is no ordinary goodbye](https://makingpeacewithsuicide.com/this-is-no-ordinary-goodbye/) - Suicide leaves you in a complicated place. Grief and trauma are intertwined.
- [How do you make sense of a sudden death?](https://makingpeacewithsuicide.com/how-do-you-make-sense-of-a-sudden-death/) - The question, itself, must be a Zen koan, because, really, there is no answer to sudden death. There is no making sense of the unreal, surreal, or unbelievable. Yet, it happens, day in and day out. One week, I was called to assist (in a grief-counseling way) at a work place. Over the weekend, a
- [Understanding the stranglehold of Big Grief](https://makingpeacewithsuicide.com/understanding-the-stranglehold-of-big-grief/) - We are hard-wired for connection and when a meaningful connection is severed – be it someone who has held a special place in our personal firmament of love and affection or someone who has betrayed and abandoned us -- we feel devastating loss. Loss of this magnitude births grief – grief for what was, what
- [Understanding teen suicide helps make sense of the heartache](https://makingpeacewithsuicide.com/understanding-teen-suicide-helps-make-sense-of-the-heartache/) - Suicide is heartbreaking. And suicide is especially crushing when a teenager has made the lethal choice to end their life. What happened?
- [Even a big heart](https://makingpeacewithsuicide.com/even-a-big-heart/) - A quote from an essay by W.B. Yeats.
- [When you are ready, this can help you heal from a loss by suicide](https://makingpeacewithsuicide.com/when-you-are-ready-this-can-help-you-heal-from-a-loss-by-suicide/) - The three steps of acceptance, forgiveness and compassion become your pathway to peace.
- [Thinking of you, survivors of suicide loss](https://makingpeacewithsuicide.com/thinking-of-you-survivors-of-suicide-loss/) - It is hard to see our loved ones, friends or coworkers doubled over in grief and pain. We want to do something – anything -- to help ease their misery.
- [Let's not declare war on suicide, let's make peace](https://makingpeacewithsuicide.com/lets-not-declare-war-on-suicide-lets-make-peace/) - If we want to address suicide, then we must sink down into the essentials
- [Nora McInerny: We don't "move on" from grief. We move forward with it.](https://makingpeacewithsuicide.com/nora-mcinerny-we-dont-move-on-from-grief-we-move-forward-with-it/) - With heart and humor, Nora McInerny's TED talk encourages us to shift how we approach grief.
- ["Signs for the Living"](https://makingpeacewithsuicide.com/signs-for-the-living/) - Didi Jackson's poem "Signs of of the Living" travels the road of suicidal grief from penitent to finding a place of freedom.
- [RIP: The collateral heartache of trauma and violence](https://makingpeacewithsuicide.com/rip-the-collateral-heartache-of-trauma-and-violence/) - This week, there have been three suicides as a result of trauma and violence, two student survivors of the Parkland, FL school shooting and one parent who lost a child in the Newtown school shooting. This is beyond heartbreaking for both families and school communities who have struggled valiantly to deal with the reality and
- [Sally and the Sparklers](https://makingpeacewithsuicide.com/sally-and-the-sparklers/) - Two weeks after the funeral, 5-year-old Sally came to see me early one Saturday morning. She was wearing her mom’s leather jacket that dragged across the floor. She looked so small and vulnerable as she came into my psychotherapy office. Sally was there to talk about her grandmother who had died recently. We talked a
- [Hope or a sky without stars](https://makingpeacewithsuicide.com/hope-or-a-sky-without-stars/) - The power of dreams and heart connections to bring hope after death.
- [Griefwalker: a film](https://makingpeacewithsuicide.com/griefwalker-a-film/) - In a beautiful, lyrical way, palliative care specialist Stephen Jenkinson looks at death and dying and wants to change the way we die.
- [Suicide and Soul Loss](https://makingpeacewithsuicide.com/suicide-and-soul-loss/) - Not all suicides are defined by mental illness, substance abuse, and unrelenting pain. There are many ways in which we see and interpret the world. From time immemorial, the soul, our spark of being, has been viewed as our primary force of life. It is what animates us. If we have been abused, humiliated, oppressed,
- [A sin, really?](https://makingpeacewithsuicide.com/a-sin-really/) - Judgment around suicide is hurtful. Condemnation around suicide serves no purpose
- [Remembering the gifts of Kate Spade and Anthony Bourdain](https://makingpeacewithsuicide.com/remembering-the-gifts-of-kate-spade-and-anthony-bourdain/) - Kate Spade, the American fashion designer, made people happy, very happy, with her iconic line of color and playfulness. She was known for her fresh, feminine, and, oftentimes, whimsical take on accessories and clothing. Kate Spade made getting dressed fun. For many, acquiring a Kate Spade piece was a rite of passage. Kate Spade was
- [Sometimes courage](https://makingpeacewithsuicide.com/sometimes-courage/) - Sometimes we need to hold tight to the promise of another day.
- [Why understanding is helpful](https://makingpeacewithsuicide.com/why-understanding-is-helpful/) - Suicide leaves a trail of uncertainties and questions. Knowledge can help make some sense of the unimaginable.
- [The medicine of sorrow](https://makingpeacewithsuicide.com/the-medicine-of-sorrow/) - Sorrow stretches a heart and teaches us a whole new way to open our hearts and love.
- [Suicide and mental illness](https://makingpeacewithsuicide.com/suicide-and-mental-illness/) - Suicide is considered a mental health issue. Why would someone want to take their own life? They must be crazy. And, sometimes, they are. There are people who cannot function on a day-to-day basis, do not bathe for a year, receive messages to kill themselves or others, or believe their fillings are wired to Martian
- [Deep Peace to You](https://makingpeacewithsuicide.com/deep-peace-to-you-2/) - This traditional Gaelic blessing is both meditation and prayer to me. The cadence and rhythm of the words moves me into a place of stillness and expansiveness. In our topsy-turvy, fast-paced world, may I offer you this bouquet of soulful words. Deep peace, deep peace of the running wave to you; Deep peace of the
- [Our miracle medicine](https://makingpeacewithsuicide.com/our-miracle-medicine/) - Jungian analyst, poet, and cantadora (keeper of the old stories), Clarissa Pinkola Estes tells us that the wise, elder women of her family would say, “The only miracle medicine we have is each other.” And so it is with suicide as well. Allow yourself to be held and heard as you walk your personal path
- [Suicide and cumulative stressors](https://makingpeacewithsuicide.com/suicide-and-cumulative-stressors/) - As we continue to look at some of the whys suicide has been chosen, let's consider the impact of cumulative stressors and trauma.
- [Grief is a kind of love](https://makingpeacewithsuicide.com/grief-is-a-kind-of-love/) - Sometimes, we forget that grief is kind of love. And we know love. We have held, hugged, laughed, cried, whispered and howled because of love.
- [You are the world](https://makingpeacewithsuicide.com/you-are-the-world/) - The power of one is never more profound than during a time of loss.
- [How do we help a loved one who has lost someone to suicide?](https://makingpeacewithsuicide.com/how-do-we-help-a-loved-one-who-has-lost-someone-to-suicide/) - It is hard to see our loved ones doubled over in grief and pain. We want to do something — anything — to help ease their misery.
- [Pain and suicide](https://makingpeacewithsuicide.com/pain-and-suicide/) - Pain does not discriminate. It moves among us equally, wearing many faces, including that of physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual pain. Pain can look like a physical wound, broken parts, a speeding mind cycling through multi-dimensional layers, heartbreak, trauma, abandonment, shattered dreams, a wailing debate with God, homelessness, hunger, failed attempts, low-slung despair, high-pitched anxiety,
- [A very brief history of suicide](https://makingpeacewithsuicide.com/a-very-brief-history-of-suicide/) - Over the centuries, suicide has been perceived as a personal choice, a mortal sin, a social issue, a mental illness, as well as an act of honor, piety, or shame.
- [Will peace find you over the holidays?](https://makingpeacewithsuicide.com/happy-thanksgiving/) - Thanksgiving marks the beginning of the trifecta of holidays that takes us into the New Year. When loss has made your heart heavy, negotiating the holidays can be tricky. Of course, you understand the merriment and celebration. You also feel the loss of your loved one and that dims the brightness of the holidays. You
- [Being brave](https://makingpeacewithsuicide.com/being-brave/) - Can you fully claim yourself? Are you willing to own you?
- [Understanding Intolerance, Bullying And Suicide](https://makingpeacewithsuicide.com/understanding-intolerance-bullying-and-suicide/) - Intolerance is a battering ram directed at anyone who is perceived as different and who has therefore become a focus of enmity. You want them to be like you. If they are not like you, you have things to say and you might become enraged, disgusted and afraid -- all of this in the name
- [The three common elements of suicide](https://makingpeacewithsuicide.com/the-three-common-elements-of-suicide/) - From my perspective, all suicidal gestures and actions, no matter how large or small, injurious or lethal, share these three elements: Pain Disconnection Disenfranchisement Pain Pain means any and all pain in all its permutations—be it physical, emotional, mental, spiritual, or any combination thereof. Pain hurts. When we are in pain, we have one goal:
- ["The Well of Grief" by David Whyte](https://makingpeacewithsuicide.com/the-well-of-grief-by-david-whyte/) - The Well of Grief Those who will not slip beneath the still surface on the well of grief turning down to its black water to the place that we can not breathe will never know the source from which we drink the secret water cold and clear nor find in the darkness the small gold
- [Son, I won't come to your grave by Diana DeRegnier](https://makingpeacewithsuicide.com/son-i-wont-come-to-your-grave-by-diana-deregnier/) - For twenty-three years I have grappled with my identity as a mother of a son who took his own life. o
- [Slipped Away by Jean Mellano](https://makingpeacewithsuicide.com/slipped-away-by-jean-mellano/) - Losing the love of my life is what I still struggle with even though I realize that this is now my new normal and that Steve and I will not grow old together and share the same pillow. 
- [Imponderables by Dianna Vagianos Armentrout](https://makingpeacewithsuicide.com/imponderables-by-dianna-vagianos-armentrout/) - Imponderables —for Jeanette or henry Tuesday in homeopathy class “imponderable” remedies moonlight blue sun I want to take luna 200c to feel the waves more, come and go with my grandmother Thursday I hear that you are gone all smiles, good soul you took yourself away transparent you
- [Some thoughts on peace](https://makingpeacewithsuicide.com/some-thoughts-on-peace/) - In honor of International Peace Day, September 21, 2017.... Ideally, peace is our natural state. More often, peace is hard-won. It takes lots of practice ...
- [Frank Ostaseski's Story](https://makingpeacewithsuicide.com/frank-ostaseskis-story/) - Frank Ostaseski tells this story: “When my son Gabe was about to be born, I wanted to understand how to bring his soul into the world. So I signed up for a workshop with Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, the renowned psychiatrist from Switzerland who was best known for her groundbreaking work on death and dying. She had
- [Sally's Story](https://makingpeacewithsuicide.com/sallys-story/) - Sally and Pete had found each other. It was the second time for both of them. This time, they both felt like they had hit the jackpot. They simply loved being together and enjoyed their small adventures, like traveling to the shore for lunch or even playing toss in the grocery store. It was always
- [MyNDTALK with Dr. Pamela Brewer](https://makingpeacewithsuicide.com/myndtalk-with-dr-pamela-brewer/) - This was a great interview with Dr. Pamela Brewer in which we discussed my book, Making Peace with Suicide: A Book of Hope, Understanding and Comfort. I told Dr. Brewer it felt like we were sitting in comfy chairs and sharing a cup of tea. This ranks as one of my favorite interviews. Her show
- [Suicide and brain damage](https://makingpeacewithsuicide.com/suicide-and-brain-damage/) - The brain is doubly impacted by trauma and addiction. We also know that organic brain disease may increase suicidality.
- [A word about substance abuse, addiction and suicide](https://makingpeacewithsuicide.com/a-word-about-substance-abuse-addiction-and-suicide/) - Addiction is a brain disorder, not merely a matter of willpower. The brain is held hostage by drugs and alcohol.
- [Suicide and the Power of Shame](https://makingpeacewithsuicide.com/suicide-and-the-power-of-shame/) - Shame is a feeling state. It is a deep-down, red-faced humiliation and mortification with oneself. Through the lens of shame, we look at ourselves with complete disgust, revulsion, and contemptibility. We judge ourselves harshly, and show no mercy. We see ourselves as the epitome of gross imperfection, enormous stupidity, complete failure, and abject incompetence. Shame
- [The death of a child](https://makingpeacewithsuicide.com/the-death-of-a-child/) - For a Parent on the Death of a Child No one knows the wonder Your child awoke in you, Your heart a perfect cradle To hold its presence. Inside and outside became one As new waves of love Kept surprising your soul. Now you sit bereft Inside a nightmare, Your eyes numbed By the sight
- [Clarissa Pinkola Estes "Refuse to fall down..."](https://makingpeacewithsuicide.com/clarissa-pinkola-estes-refuse-to-fall-down/) - Refuse to fall down. If you cannot refuse to fall down, refuse to stay down. If you cannot refuse to stay down, lift your heart toward heaven, and like a hungry beggar, ask that it be filled, and it will be filled. You may be pushed down. You may be kept from rising. But no
- [Go gently, dear one](https://makingpeacewithsuicide.com/go-gently-dear-one/) - Go gently, dear one. There is no need to push, push, push. Treat yourself with exquisite tenderness. You have endured more than imagined possible.
- [This is what grief looks like](https://makingpeacewithsuicide.com/this-is-what-grief-looks-like/) - Grief hollowed you out until you were gasping for breath, empty and fully spent. You alternated between almost-catatonic numbness and torturous, cycling agony.
- [A blessing for times of crisis and chaos](https://makingpeacewithsuicide.com/a-blessing-for-times-of-crisis-and-chaos/) - During these days when the planetary movement is a rock-‘n-roll ride and many a wild card is being tossed in the air, may you feel the depth of your soul ...
- [Collateral damage](https://makingpeacewithsuicide.com/collateral-damage/) - The 50 year-old American Association of Suicidology's (AAS) mission is, in brief, developing strategies to prevent suicide, advancing education and scholarly work around suicide and, promoting research about and training in suicide. Edwin Schneidman, Ph.D., the founding President of AAS, said: Survivors of suicide represent the largest mental health casualties related to suicide. Of course,
- [Loss and grief](https://makingpeacewithsuicide.com/loss-and-grief/) - It is hard, exhausting, and excruciating work to make sense of the un-sensible and to unpack and repack a life that you have held with such love and affection.
- [Jan Richardson's Blessing the House of the Heart](https://makingpeacewithsuicide.com/jan-richardsons-blessing-the-house-of-the-heart/) - If you could see,how this blessing, shimmers inside you, you would never wonder whether there will be light enough, time enough, room enough for you.
- [Odd Thomas on grief](https://makingpeacewithsuicide.com/odd-thomas-on-grief/) - “Grief can destroy you – or focus you. You can decide a relationship was all for nothing if it had to end in death, and you alone. Or you can realize that every moment of it had more meaning than you dared to recognize at the time, so much meaning it scared you, so you
- [Dealing With Christmas Blues](https://makingpeacewithsuicide.com/dealing-with-christmas-blues/) - Isn't it all grand? Isn't this the most wonderful time of year? Actually, no. Not for everyone.
- [Jan Richardson's Blessings of Hope](https://makingpeacewithsuicide.com/jan-richardsons-blessings-of-hope/) - "So may we know the hope that is not just for someday but for this day—here, now ..."
- [How are we changed by devastating loss?](https://makingpeacewithsuicide.com/how-are-we-changed-by-devastating-loss/) - Loss is never easy. Loss leaves us speechless and shaking with emotion. How do any of us walk through this miasma of agony?
- [The Other Side of Grief](https://makingpeacewithsuicide.com/the-other-side-of-grief/) - I recently had the pleasure in participating in The Other Side of Grief of Suicide speaker series. This free speaker series runs Monday, November 14 - Friday, November 25. I will be featured on Tuesday, November 15. Understanding, education and gaining new resources and coping strategies can help you work through your hero's journey of grief.
- [Thank you Step 12 Magazine for the great review!](https://makingpeacewithsuicide.com/thank-you-step-12-magazine-for-the-great-review/) - Adele has packed every aspect of losing a loved one to suicide into a single insightful, meaningful edition which should be read again and again.
- [Hope says](https://makingpeacewithsuicide.com/hope-says/)
- ["Give me away"](https://makingpeacewithsuicide.com/give-me-away/) - The beautiful poem "Epitaph" by Merrit Malloy offers comfort and possibility to those who are deep in grief.
- [Psychology Today: "When suicide hits home" by Susan McQuillan](https://makingpeacewithsuicide.com/psychology-today-when-suicide-hits-home-by-susan-mcquillan/) - An excellent Psychology Today blog post by Susan McQuillan looking at suicide and eating disorders.
- [13 everyday ways to prevent suicide](https://makingpeacewithsuicide.com/13-everyday-ways-to-prevent-suicide/) - What can we do to help make a difference? Here are 13 small steps that we can all take to help tip the balance in favor of life. We never know the impact ...
- [Check out Frame of Mind](https://makingpeacewithsuicide.com/check-out-frame-of-mind/) - The wonderful editors of the Huffington Post Canada blog have put together a month-long series on teens and mental health, entitled Frame of Mind.
- [" I discover peace"](https://makingpeacewithsuicide.com/i-discover-peace/) - The eight lines with soothe your soul and remind you how far and deep you have traveled on your healing path.
- [Always and without question](https://makingpeacewithsuicide.com/always-and-without-question/)
- [Breathe, Sweet Pea, breathe](https://makingpeacewithsuicide.com/breathe-sweet-pea-breathe/) - For those moments when your brain starts whirring and going down the rabbit hole, remember to breathe. It helps.
- ["Explaining My Depression to My Mother"](https://makingpeacewithsuicide.com/explaining-my-depression-to-my-mother/) - Depression and suicide are inexplicably linked. In three minutes, Sabrina Benaim beautifully and powerfully explains the often misunderstood concept of depression. Brava! Very well done! https://youtu.be/aqu4ezLQEUA
- [Dealing with the death of a young person](https://makingpeacewithsuicide.com/dealing-with-the-death-of-a-young-person/) - You are in a place you never imagined, much less prepared for: you are in hell.
- ["For Grief" by John O'Donohue](https://makingpeacewithsuicide.com/for-grief-by-john-odonohue/) - John O'Donohue's words safely and soulfully wrap our tear-stained selves in understanding and comfort.
- [Gentleness, strength and grief](https://makingpeacewithsuicide.com/gentleness-strength-and-grief/) - "The greatest strength is gentleness." Iroquois Proverb In today's world, gentleness is not seen as a virtue, much less a strength. I agree with the Iroquois; gentleness is an exquisite strength. It calls us to be present, mindful and caring, the complete opposite of the hot reactor. Gentleness is a loving gift we give
- [The hope of flowers](https://makingpeacewithsuicide.com/the-hope-of-flowers/) - It is a huge danger to pretend that awful things do not happen.
- [Just in case you forgot...](https://makingpeacewithsuicide.com/just-in-case-you-forgot/) - "Love never dies." ~ Maye Shaw
- [Wise words from a survivor](https://makingpeacewithsuicide.com/wise-words-from-a-survivor/) - If I had to tell someone who is a survivor of a loved one who committed suicide, one piece of advice I would say is ...
- [A few words on grief](https://makingpeacewithsuicide.com/a-few-words-on-grief/) - Grief is a personal experience. There is no one way to grieve. There is no time limit. It takes as long as it takes. Grief is a kind of love and a way to remember.
- [Understanding the grief of suicide](https://makingpeacewithsuicide.com/understanding-the-grief-of-suicide/) - Death is not easy on a regular basis, but death becomes tainted and shame-faced when described as a suicide. It’s hard to be left under such messy circumstances. You feel that somehow you failed to do your part. It feels as if the world sits in judgment, which only underscores the wracking guilt that hammers
- [Seven steps to make peace with suicide](https://makingpeacewithsuicide.com/seven-steps-to-make-peace-with-suicide/) - Suicide is desolate. It is weighted with shame and secrecy, criticism and judgment. Seven steps provide a template towards healing and reconciliation.
- [The choice by Janie Brown](https://makingpeacewithsuicide.com/the-choice-by-janie-brown/) - A compassionate look at friendship, mental illness and the choice of suicide.
- [Mayo Clinic: healing suicidal grief](https://makingpeacewithsuicide.com/mayo-clinic-healing-suicidal-grief/) - A loved one's suicide can be emotionally devastating. Use healthy coping strategies — such as seeking support — to begin the journey to healing and acceptance.
- [The pain of suicide: preventing and coping with tragedy](https://makingpeacewithsuicide.com/the-pain-of-suicide-preventing-and-coping-with-tragedy/) - Interview with Dr. Adele R. McDowell on preventing and coping with this global tragedy.
- [Love and courage in today's world](https://makingpeacewithsuicide.com/love-and-courage-in-todays-world/) - The world feels smaller and scarier. Who knows what will happen next? We hold our breaths and wait with fear tightening our hearts.
- [Deep peace to you](https://makingpeacewithsuicide.com/deep-peace-to-you/) - This traditional Gaelic blessing is both meditation and prayer to me. The cadence and rhythm of the words moves me into a place of stillness and expansiveness.
- [Resting in peace](https://makingpeacewithsuicide.com/resting-in-peace/) - Peace is part of our everyday language. The word is familiar. It conveys warmth. It speaks of an absence of war, conflict, and struggle. Peace rests in the geographic center of grace. Its voice is calm, tranquil, and serene.
- [Another year passes](https://makingpeacewithsuicide.com/another-year-passes/) - Another years passes. It does not take way the sadness. In fact, the new year can be like a knock at the door reminding you of what has been lost.
- [Our loved ones are gone but not lost](https://makingpeacewithsuicide.com/our-loved-ones-are-gone-but-not-lost/) - Consider there might be more than the physical plane and your deceased loved ones are cheering your forward.
- [Suicidal grief: non-ordinary time](https://makingpeacewithsuicide.com/suicidal-grief-non-ordinary-time/) - It is hard, exhausting, and excruciating work to make sense of the un-sensible and to unpack and repack a life that you have held with such love and affection.
- [Children of suicide](https://makingpeacewithsuicide.com/children-of-suicide/) - Arguably, suicide is the hardest death to accept. There are so many unanswered questions. Young children do not readily understand the concept of suicide.
- [The thunderclap of sudden death](https://makingpeacewithsuicide.com/the-thunderclap-of-sudden-death/) - Frequently, suicides are sudden; they hit like an enormous, out-of-the-blue thunderclap to the heart. Your world stops. This can’t be true.
- [What if the suicide was not so surprising?](https://makingpeacewithsuicide.com/what-if-the-suicide-was-not-so-surprising/) - When an unstable loved one ends their life, often it is not a total surprise. Yet, it does not lessen the impact of suicide or the heaviness of grief.
- [When you are the survivor of suicide](https://makingpeacewithsuicide.com/when-you-are-the-survivor-of-suicide/) - For the survivor, suicide is the day you stop taking a full breath. It is, alas, the day people can avoid you; talk about you; and, even, blame you.
- [Understanding helps us heal](https://makingpeacewithsuicide.com/understanding-helps-us-heal/) - Understanding the full picture of suicide can serve as a powerful healing ally. Indeed, knowledge is power.
- [3 guideposts for making peace with suicide](https://makingpeacewithsuicide.com/3-guideposts-for-making-peace-with-suicide/) - Remember the theme song from the show M*A*S*H, “Suicide is painless?” From the surviving loved one’s viewpoint, nothing could be more wrong. Dealing with suicidal grief means overcoming enormous, overwhelming loss. It is, indeed, a hero’s journey. A loved one’s suicide marks the day you stopped taking a full breath; the day you were left
- [Messages from the Other Side](https://makingpeacewithsuicide.com/messages-from-the-other-side/) - Once upon a time, a woman, let’s call her Shirley, lost her husband to the ravages of cancer. It had been a long and arduous battle. Shirley was completely depleted on every level. After the funeral service, everyone returned to the house. The coffee pot was plugged in; neighbors brought in food. Shirley excused herself
- [One year later: What have we learned from Robin Williams's suicide?](https://makingpeacewithsuicide.com/one-year-later-what-have-we-learned-from-robin-williamss-suicide/) - Every experience brings us wisdom. This is what Native Americans call "medicine," also known as our personal power. The shocking loss of Robin Williams on August 11, 2014 has had a profound impact on opening the door and bringing suicide out of the closet. Not only did Robin expand us with comic genius and acting
- ["Love is an act..."](https://makingpeacewithsuicide.com/love-is-an-act/) - Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit. ~ Peter Ustinov
- [My favorite healing story](https://makingpeacewithsuicide.com/my-favorite-healing-story/) - This is my favorite healing story. I first heard this story from higher consciousness teacher, Caroline Myss, who, in turn, learned this first-hand from her friend and our protagonist, David Chethlahe Paladin. Conversation with the wonderful Lynda Paladin, our protagonist’s wife, added more meaningful background. David Chethlahe Paladin is a Navaho Indian living on a
- [I can still see you](https://makingpeacewithsuicide.com/i-can-still-see-you/) - If I were to have a gravestone, preferably under a beautiful tree that flowers or, at least near a Chinese restaurant, I would want the gravestone to be etched with these words: I CAN STILL SEE YOU. Of course, this makes me laugh. It has for days as I have been entertaining myself with this
- [The most difficult of all our tasks](https://makingpeacewithsuicide.com/the-most-difficult-of-all-our-tasks/) - For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke
- [Words of wisdom](https://makingpeacewithsuicide.com/words-of-wisdom/) - Keep inviolate an area of light and peace within you. ~Corazon Aquino
- [The heart of a home: tales of suicide and compassion](https://makingpeacewithsuicide.com/the-heart-of-a-home-tales-of-suicide-and-compassion/) - The foreclosure agents repeatedly rang her doorbell; there was no response. They pounded on the door; there was no response. The locksmith, who accompanied the team, unlocked the door; whereupon, they saw 53 year-old Amaya Egaña standing on a chair on the sixth-floor balcony of her apartment in the Basque city of Barakaldo, Spain. Upon
- [The uncomfortability of grief](https://makingpeacewithsuicide.com/the-uncomfortability-of-grief/) - A few years ago, I had the opportunity to visit sunny, palm-treed southern California, where it kisses the blue, blue of the Pacific Ocean. It is a beautiful part of the world. The purpose of my visit was to present my new work Making Peace with Suicide at The 2012 Compassionate Friends (TCF) annual national and
- [Opening our awareness to suicide](https://makingpeacewithsuicide.com/opening-our-awareness-to-suicide/) - Heretofore, suicide has been a taboo topic. Now, it is so headline-making and societally embarrassing that clinicians and researchers are madly looking for answers and trying to quantify criteria. Why has suicide become so rampant? There are those that end their life by suicide from hearing voices. Or they become imprisoned by despair, shame, and
- [Does the soul remember?](https://makingpeacewithsuicide.com/does-the-soul-remember/) - There is much research being done around past-life memories and experiences. People undergo past life regressions with trained regression therapists or they have spontaneous memories. Perhaps, they have knowledge or a skill set for which they were not trained or a huge fear without any rational basis. Or they meet someone with whom they have
- [In defense of hope](https://makingpeacewithsuicide.com/is-hope-a-function-of-struggle/) - I love research professor and scholar Brené Brown, Ph.D., LMSW, for all of her important and excellent work around vulnerability, shame, and perfectionism. She is smart, funny, a great presenter (check out her TED talks) and a fellow Texan, but this small quote, attributed to Brown, bugs me: "Hope is a function of struggle." ~Brené

## Pages

- [Insightful, Compelling, and Compassionate](https://makingpeacewithsuicide.com/) - A Book of Hope, Understanding, and Comfort
- [Articles](https://makingpeacewithsuicide.com/articles/) - 7 things you need to know after a suicidal loss 13 Everyday Ways to Prevent Suicide Dealing with the death of a young person Understanding teen suicide What can we do when someone we care about loses a loved to suicide? How to Help Your Grieving Child When You Are the Survivor of Suicide Understanding
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- [About the Author](https://makingpeacewithsuicide.com/about-the-author/)
- [Dealing with the death of a young person](https://makingpeacewithsuicide.com/dealing-with-the-death-of-a-young-person/) - Death is never easy. And the death of a young person is especially heartbreaking and traumatic. There was so much future and so much possibility that is now forever gone. There will be no more birthdays, graduations or wedding days. This young life, full of potential and promise, has ended in the blink of an
- [Suicide and childhood sexual abuse](https://makingpeacewithsuicide.com/suicide-and-childhood-sexual-abuse/) - Circling the international news was the story of the assisted suicide of a young Dutch woman due to long-term childhood sexual abuse. This woman in her 20's asked for -- and was granted – euthanasia by lethal injection. She requested an end to her life due to intractable trauma (i.e., severe Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder) and
- [12 Things You Should Know about Suicide](https://makingpeacewithsuicide.com/12-things-you-should-know-about-suicide/) - Suicide is a dirty word, mired in judgment, shame, and taboo. It is often whispered or, even, denied (“Oh, he died of heart attack.”) or avoided (“She died suddenly.”). Given the staggering statistics, isn’t it time we take suicide out of the closet and bring it into the light? Isn’t it time we begin the
- [Understanding the grief of suicide](https://makingpeacewithsuicide.com/understanding-the-grief-of-suicide/) - Death is not easy on a regular basis, but death becomes tainted and shame-faced when described as a suicide. It’s hard to be left under such messy circumstances. You feel that somehow you failed to do your part. It feels as if the world sits in judgment, which only underscores the wracking guilt that hammers
- [When You Are the Survivor of Suicide](https://makingpeacewithsuicide.com/when-you-are-the-survivor-of-suicide/) - Suicide is not an easy conversation. Period. It is weighted with the feelings of real or perceived judgment and taboo. Survivors search and seek for answers and clues about the thinking and feeling behind their loved one's choice to irrevocably end it all. How could this be? Why did this happen? What caused this? What
- [How to Help Your Grieving Child](https://makingpeacewithsuicide.com/how-to-help-your-grieving-child/) - There is nothing more heartbreaking than seeing your child sob inconsolably following the death of a loved one. For children, grief impacts the stability of their world. Life changes radically. If a sibling is lost, the child may feel guilty for being the surviving one and, often, is emotionally abandoned by gutted parents, who are
- [What can we do when someone we care about loses a loved to suicide?](https://makingpeacewithsuicide.com/what-can-we-do-when-someone-we-care-about-loses-a-loved-to-suicide/) - Suicide is often a sudden, unexpected death. It leaves loved ones reeling with shock, confusion, heartbreak, anger and whole panoply of emotions. When word gets out about a death by suicide, there is a ripple effect. The loss moves out in ever-widening circles and whoever hears or knows anyone impacted by the loss wants to
- [Understanding teen suicide](https://makingpeacewithsuicide.com/understanding-teen-suicide/) - Suicide is heartbreaking. And suicide is especially crushing when a teenager has made the lethal choice to end their life. What happened? As the adults in their lives we cannot fathom how things went so bad, so fast. We feel so certain there could have been another way, a different choice. Yes, we might have
- [13 Everyday Ways to Help Prevent Suicide](https://makingpeacewithsuicide.com/13-everyday-ways-to-help-prevent-suicide/) - Every year, across the globe, we acknowledge the depth and breadth of suicide by World Prevention Suicide Day. It makes me sad that we have such a day, but it is necessary. Suicide must surely be out of the closet by now. It happens. It happens every 40 seconds, on average, around the globe per
- [7 things you need to know after a suicidal loss](https://makingpeacewithsuicide.com/7-things-you-need-to-know-after-a-suicidal-loss/) - For loved ones left behind, suicide is not painless. It leaves you holding your heart in your hand, vibrating with emotion and reeling with questions. The ground has given way and you are free-falling through space. Here are 7 things you need to know after losing a loved one to suicide; they can help you
- [Privacy Policy](https://makingpeacewithsuicide.com/privacy-policy/) - Making Peace With Suicide Privacy Policy Our website address is: makingpeacewithsuicide.com. This website appreciates all of its visitors and respects their privacy. This policy will address what data we collect, store and how we use it. Data Collection and Usage Individuals who submit a message thru our Contact page must include an email address and name.
- [Related Articles](https://makingpeacewithsuicide.com/related-articles/)
- [Radio Broadcasts Links](https://makingpeacewithsuicide.com/radio-broadcasts/) - Hi, All, I am riding the radio waves across North America and talking about my new book, Making Peace with Suicide: A Book of Hope, Understanding, and Comfort. Some of the shows are live, others are pre-recorded for future use, and some are taped and we have access to the links or podcasts,
- [Related Presentations](https://makingpeacewithsuicide.com/related-workshops-and-talks/) - American Association of Suicidology (April, 2017): " This is No Ordinary Goodbye: Surviving a Loss from Suicide" 7th Annual West Coast Symposium on Addictive Disorders, La Quinta, CA (June, 2016): " The Interface between Addiction, Trauma and Suicide" National Association of Forensic Counselors (NAFC), annual conference, Indianapolis, IN (2015): "The Interface Between Addiction, Trauma and Suicide" Albertson Memorial Church, Old
- [Radio Shows](https://makingpeacewithsuicide.com/radio-shows/) - CJOB Nighthawk / Geoff Currier / Winnipeg MB, Canada Fox Talk News Radio / KZNU /Kate Dalley / UT, NV, AZ http://www.foxnews1450.com Harvesting Happiness Talk Radio Show /Lisa Cypers Karmen / http://harvestinghappiness.com/lisa KTKK AM InterViews & InterActions / Linda Strasburg http://www.k-talk.com / Salt Lake City, UT Lifetalk Radio Network / Heartwise / Dr Charles Mills LifeTalk / 3ABN radio
- [Praise for the Book](https://makingpeacewithsuicide.com/making-peace-with-suicide-reviews/)

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- [Alexander McCall Smith book Blue Shoes and Happiness](https://makingpeacewithsuicide.com/tag/alexander-mccall-smith-book-blue-shoes-and-happiness/)
- [dreams](https://makingpeacewithsuicide.com/tag/dreams/)
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