In the past, I wrote this blog post about the Stages of Grief and how guilt impacted our ability to move through each stage successfully. Recent conversation with a family member after the loss of Blackhawk's assistant equipment manager, Clint Reif, motivated me to revisit the topic of guilt after suicide as many questioned, "How did his family not know?"
If you are a survivor, you have likely become very familiar with guilt after suicide. ...
How to Answer Questions After a Suicide
I recently read a Huffington Post article a friend posted on Facebook titled “The Questions That Will Save Your Relationships”. Here is the link and I’d highly recommend reading it. In the article, the author, a stay-at-home mom of three, discusses the struggle to effectively communicate with her working husband on occasion. They realized that asking each other, "How was your day?" after 12 hours apart was quite a loaded question and left both ...
20 Questions: How Do I Answer Everyone Else’s Questions?
One of the things I struggled with the most in the weeks and months after my Dad died was figuring out what I felt comfortable telling people once they questioned my Dad’s suicide. By nature, people want to know all the details, especially when it’s something so hard to comprehend as suicide. Suicide survivors are put in a hard situation because we don’t know the answers to questions after suicide, yet all of the friends/family think you know ...