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Blogs About Grief

Grief After Suicide Loss: It Doesn’t Get Lighter, You Get Used to the Weight

The lifelong path of grief is hard. It is an unfairly weighted backpack And the pack doesn’t get lighter the more you walk. You get used to the weight you must carry but it doesn’t get lighter.

Life After My Mom’s Overdose

Life after her overdose was like learning to walk again and l felt that I carried an immense disadvantage going into young adulthood. I stumbled and fell and scraped my knees. I didn’t feel I could truthfully explain my mother’s passing without encountering judgment for the manner in which she passed, which led me to not speaking about it.

Grief, Guilt, and Grace

Although pain convinces us we are dying, when you confront it by feeling rather than avoiding it, you realize it is just a feeling that’s visiting. To be open with your emotions is to honor yourself.

Visit our blog for more stories about suicide loss and grief.

Grief Resources

Lost a loved one to suicide

American Foundation For Suicide Prevention
AFSP provides several resources to those who have lost a loved one to suicide. This includes Survivors of Suicide Loss Groups and opportunities for personal support.
Honor Connor
Honor Connor offers a program called Hold Onto Hope, which is a clinically-backed education program specifically designed to support individuals who have personally experienced loss and want to support others experiencing suicide loss.
Alliance of Hope
Since 2008, the Alliance of Hope has been working to decrease stigma, increase understanding of the suicide loss experience, and provide direct support to survivors through community.
Suicide Awareness Voices of Education (SAVE)
SAVE offers support to those who are survivors of suicide loss through local support groups and resources.
Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors (TAPS)
TAPS has supported thousands of survivors of military suicide loss by offering them hope, healing, and renewed opportunities for personal growth

Lost a loved one to addiction

Grief Recovery After a Substance Use Passing (GRASP)
GRASP offers free and local support meetings for those facing the loss of a loved one to substance use.
Cope Foundation (COPE)
COPE offers free grief support programs and tools to support parents and families dealing with the loss of a child.
Herren Project
Herren Project’s addiction grief support group is for individuals grieving from losing a loved one to drug addiction, alcoholism, or a drug overdose.
Partnership To End Addiction
Offers an Online Support Community meeting for parents who have lost a child to substance use.
Eluna Network
Offers support for children who have lost a loved one or been impacted by substance use. They offer camps and other resources families can use to help children understand grief and loss

Lost a child

Bereaved Parents of the USA
Bereaved Parents of the USA provides a safe space where grieving families can connect, share their stories, and learn to rebuild their lives. We attend meetings whenever we can and for as long as we find helpful.
The Compassionate Friends
The Compassionate Friends offers support from local chapters, resources for newly bereaved, and ongoing help for those who have lost a child.

General Support

The Dinner Party,(Virtual)
The Dinner Party is a community of people between 21-45 years old who have each experienced the loss of a parent, partner, child, sibling, another close family member, or close friend.
Grief Anonymous
Grief Anonymous is an hour zoom meeting once a week for people grieving to share, vent, cry, etc.

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