The Leftover Pieces: Suicide Loss Conversations

" Hello --It is May 22nd and welcome to Wonderland Fellow Griever. — “You’ve just stepped Down the Rabbit Hole — where mental health meets madness after loss. This is your daily dose of truth, grief, and yes, just the right bit of madness.” WEEK 4: Resilience & Reclamation Day 22: Today’s truth is: "It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards." Idea: Creating forwa...

" Hello --It is May 21st and welcome to Wonderland Fellow Griever. — “You’ve just stepped Down the Rabbit Hole — where mental health meets madness after loss. This is your daily dose of truth, grief, and yes, just the right bit of madness.” WEEK  3: Control & Surrender Day 21: Today’s truth (revisited) is: "I can't go back to yesterday..." Idea: Accepting life as it is now....

" Hello --It is May 20th and welcome to Wonderland Fellow Griever. — “You’ve just stepped Down the Rabbit Hole — where mental health meets madness after loss. This is your daily dose of truth, grief, and yes, just the right bit of madness.” WEEK  3: Control & Surrender Day 20: Today’s truth is: "Begin at the beginning... and go on till you come to the end." Idea: Getting unstuck...

Support the show Today I speak with Lauren Wood , a (super brave)  third year Human Services student at Northeastern University in Boston, passionate about social justice, equal mental health access, and (naturally) suicide prevention.   Lauren opens up about losing her dear friend Coble to suicide when she was just a senior in high school—an event that shattered her world and changed the trajecto...

" Hello --It is May 19th, and welcome to Wonderland Fellow Griever. — "You've just stepped Down the Rabbit Hole — where mental health meets madness after loss. This is your daily dose of truth, grief, and yes, just the right bit of madness." WEEK  3: Control & Surrender Day 19: Today's truth is: "Everything's got a moral...if only you can find it."  Idea...

" Hello --It is May 18th and welcome to Wonderland Fellow Griever. — “You’ve just stepped Down the Rabbit Hole — where mental health meets madness after loss. This is your daily dose of truth, grief, and yes, just the right bit of madness.” WEEK  3: Control & Surrender Day 18: Today’s truth is: "If everybody minded their own business... " Idea: Setting boundaries. Oh, the unsoli...

“Hello --It is May 17th and welcome to Wonderland Fellow Griever. — “You’ve just stepped Down the Rabbit Hole — where mental health meets madness after loss. Let’s get real, together. This is your daily dose of truth, grief, and yes, just the right bit of madness.” WEEK  3: Control & Surrender Day 17: Today’s truth is: "I can't go no lower... I'm on the floor, as it is." Id...

“Hello --It is May 16th and welcome to Wonderland Fellow Griever. — “You’ve just stepped Down the Rabbit Hole — where mental health meets madness after loss. Let’s get real, together. This is your daily dose of truth, grief, and yes, just the right bit of madness.” WEEK  3: Control & Surrender Day 16: Today’s truth is: "The time has come, the Walrus said, to talk of many things..."  ...

" Hello --It is May 15th and welcome to Wonderland Fellow Griever. — “You’ve just stepped Down the Rabbit Hole — where mental health meets madness after loss. This is your daily dose of truth, grief, and yes, just the right bit of madness.” WEEK  3: Control & Surrender Day 15: Today’s truth is: "Remember who you are " Idea: Reclaiming lost parts of self.  In grief, we lose not o...

“Hello --It is May 14th and welcome to Wonderland Fellow Griever. — “You’ve just stepped Down the Rabbit Hole — where mental health meets madness after loss. This is your daily dose of truth, grief, and yes, just the right bit of madness.” WEEK 2: Madness & Acceptance Day 14: Today’s truth is: "All the ways about here belong to me.” Idea: Taking back your voice.  There’s no one way to gri...

“Hello --It is May 13th and welcome to Wonderland Fellow Griever. — “You’ve just stepped Down the Rabbit Hole — where mental health meets madness after loss. This is your daily dose of truth, grief, and yes, just the right bit of madness.” WEEK 2: Madness & Acceptance Day 13: Today’s truth is: "I'm not myself, you see." Idea: Identity disturbance.  These words hit deep, don’t th...

“Hello --It is May 12th and welcome to Wonderland Fellow Griever. — “You’ve just stepped Down the Rabbit Hole — where mental health meets madness after loss. Let’s get real, together. This is your daily dose of truth, grief, and yes, just the right bit of madness.” WEEK 2: Madness & Acceptance Day 12: Today’s truth is: "Curiouser and curiouser!"   Idea: Letting yourself explore emoti...

“Hello --It is May 11h and welcome to Wonderland Fellow Griever. — “You’ve just stepped Down the Rabbit Hole — where mental health meets madness after loss. Let’s get real, together. This is your daily dose of truth, grief, and yes, just the right bit of madness.” WEEK 2: Madness & Acceptance Day 11: Today’s truth is: “I give myself very good advice, but I very seldom follow it.” Idea: Struggl...

“Hello --It is May 10th and welcome to Wonderland Fellow Griever. — “You’ve just stepped Down the Rabbit Hole — where mental health meets madness after loss. Let’s get real, together. This is your daily dose of truth, grief, and yes, just the right bit of madness.” WEEK 2: Madness & Acceptance Day 10: Today’s truth is: “If you don’t know where you’re going, any road can take you there.” Idea:...

“Hello --It is May 9th and welcome to Wonderland Fellow Griever. — “You’ve just stepped Down the Rabbit Hole — where mental health meets madness after loss. Let’s get real, together. This is your daily dose of truth, grief, and yes, just the right bit of madness.” WEEK 2: Madness & Acceptance Day 9: Today’s truth is: "Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things befo...

“Hello --It is May 8th and welcome to Wonderland Fellow Griever. — “You’ve just stepped Down the Rabbit Hole — where mental health meets madness after loss. Let’s get real, together. This is your daily dose of truth, grief, and yes, just the right bit of madness.” WEEK 2: Madness & Acceptance Day 8: Today’s truth is: "We're all mad here"   Idea: Grief is disorienting—but you’re...

“Hello --It is May 7th and welcome to Wonderland Fellow Griever. — “You’ve just stepped Down the Rabbit Hole — where mental health meets madness after loss. Let’s get real, together. This is your daily dose of truth, grief, and yes, just the right bit of madness.” WEEK 1: I discuss Identity & Transformation Day 7: Today’s truth is: "But I don't want to go among mad people." Idea...

“Hello --It is May 6th and welcome to Wonderland Fellow Griever. — “You’ve just stepped Down the Rabbit Hole — where mental health meets madness after loss. Let’s get real, together. This is your daily dose of truth, grief, and yes, just the right bit of madness.” WEEK 1: I discuss Identity & Transformation Day 6: Today’s truth is: " A grin without a cat — the most curious thing!” ... Ide...

“Hello --It is May 5th and welcome to Wonderland Fellow Griever. — “You’ve just stepped Down the Rabbit Hole — where mental health meets madness after loss. Let’s get real, together. This is your daily dose of truth, grief, and yes, just the right bit of madness.” WEEK 1: I discuss Identity & Transformation Day 5: Today’s truth is: "How puzzling all these changes are! " Idea: The dis...

“Hello --It is May 4th and welcome to Wonderland Fellow Griever. — “You’ve just stepped Down the Rabbit Hole — where mental health meets madness after loss. Let’s get real, together. This is your daily dose of truth, grief, and yes, just the right bit of madness.” WEEK 1: I discuss Identity & Transformation Day 4: Today’s truth is:  "I can't explain myself, I'm afraid, Sir, beca...

“Hello --It is May 3rd and welcome to Wonderland Fellow Griever. — “You’ve just stepped Down the Rabbit Hole — where mental health meets madness after loss. Let’s get real, together. This is your daily dose of truth, grief, and yes, just the right bit of madness.” WEEK 1: I discuss Identity & Transformation Day 3: Today’s truth from Alice is: “I can’t go back to yesterday because I was a diffe...

“Hello --It is May 2nd and welcome to Wonderland Fellow Griever. — “You’ve just stepped Down the Rabbit Hole — where mental health meets madness after loss. Let’s get real, together. This is your daily dose of truth, grief, and yes, just the right bit of madness.” Welcome to Day 2. Our Quote today is is from Ch 5 of The Adventures of Alice in Wonderland: "I knew who I was this morning, but I&...

Hello Fellow Griever — Welcome to this special Down the Rabbit Hole series I'm calling “Welcome to May – We’re All Mad Here.”   [P.S... Like this podcast? Support the show by clicking...thank you ] If you're new here, I’m Melissa, a suicide loss survivor and a bereaved mom myself. I’m also a grief coach, and the host of this podcast The Leftover Pieces; Suicide Loss Conversations podcast...

Today I share a recent chat with Larry Carlat. He is a writer, author, a retired editor, a grief coach -- and the bereaved father of Rob, his son who died by suicide. This is life after suicide in a packed-full-of lived-experience-wisdom and hope-filled conversation.  One of the chapters in his book "A Space in the Heart" is called The Soul Knows When It's Time to Go... and you can...

Today, in talking about life after suicide loss, I am releasing a recent chat with Julie Halpert - Garrett's mom, journalist, and co-founder of Garrett's Space. Tragically, Garrett died by suicide at 23 years old in 2017...He was incredibly bright, loved & talented. And Garrett struggled with his mental health on and off for years. These things came together as the inspiration for th...