Fall brings with it some of the most wonderful holidays of the year. However, Halloween is one that can be difficult for many survivors to face. We already experience enough insensitive gestures and chatter in everyday life. This holiday is built around potential emotional triggers, making Halloween after a suicide especially hard. On the surface, it’s an innocent day, centered on costumes and candy, but some of the elaborate and gory decorations ...
Bittersweet Celebrations After Loss to Suicide
This past weekend I had another “bittersweet celebration,” an event that was very exciting, but was bittersweet because my Dad wasn’t there to help us celebrate. My brother graduated college in May, and our old neighbors (some of my Dad’s best friends) threw a graduation party for him. It was such an awesome gesture, but it stung knowing that the reason they threw the party is because my Dad isn’t alive to throw the party himself.
Going to the ...
Fond Fourth of July Memories
Happy Independence Day! The Fourth of July is a bittersweet day for me because it was one of my favorite holidays to spend with my dad growing up and is full of so many memories. Our city put on one of the best celebrations in the Midwest, which included a three-hour parade and lakefront fireworks display. Each year, we’d wake up early to head to the Main Street home of a family friend to indulge in donuts and a BBQ while watching the floats ...
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