Healing isn’t about forgetting.

It’s about learning how to live with what happened—while making room for love, meaning, connection, and even joy again.

If you’ve lost someone you love to suicide, you already know how profoundly one moment can change everything.

The questions that don’t have answers.
The grief other people can’t always see.
The way your body can stay on alert long after the initial shock has passed.
The strange experience of watching the world continue while you are still trying to understand how yours changed so completely.

And eventually, another question begins to emerge:

How do I live now?

Not how do I forget.
Not how do I “move on.”
Not how do I become the person I was before.

But how do I carry this love and this loss—and still create a life that feels meaningful?

That is the work we do here.

You can grieve deeply and still live fully.

At Healing After Suicide, we believe healing does not require leaving your loved one behind.

It means discovering a different relationship with your grief.

One where the person you lost remains part of your story—but their death does not have to become the ending of yours.

I know this terrain personally.

Over the course of 34 years, I have survived four suicide losses. I know the confusion, anger, unanswered questions, exhaustion, and isolation that can follow this kind of loss.

I also know something I could not have believed in the beginning:

Life can become meaningful again.

There can be laughter without guilt.

There can be peace without forgetting.

There can be new experiences, beautiful places, deep relationships, purpose, and moments when you realize you are not simply surviving anymore.

You are living.

This is healing that moves.

Healing After Suicide was created for survivors who want compassionate support and practical ways to move through grief—emotionally, physically, relationally, and spiritually.

Our work brings together trauma-informed education, nervous system regulation, somatic practices, EFT/Tapping, reflective writing, nature, meaningful connection, and experiences that gently invite you back into life.

Not because grief needs to be fixed.

But because grief affects far more than our thoughts.

It can live in our bodies.
Our relationships.
Our identity.
Our confidence.
Our sense of safety.
Our ability to imagine a future.

Healing deserves to reach those places, too.

We create spaces where you can honor what happened without allowing it to become the only thing that defines what happens next.

A different way to think about healing

Here, you will never be asked to “get over it.”

Instead, we explore what it means to:

• Hold grief and joy at the same time

• Talk openly about suicide without shame or whispering

• Understand what trauma and prolonged stress can do to the nervous system

• Release some of the guilt, fear, anger, and unanswered questions you may have been carrying

• Honor the full life of the person you lost—not only the way they died

• Reconnect with your body, your relationships, and yourself

• Begin imagining a meaningful future without feeling as though you are betraying your past

• Experience moments of peace, beauty, laughter, and adventure without apology

Because healing after suicide loss is rarely about returning to who you were.

It is about discovering who you are becoming.

This may be for you if…

You have lost someone you love to suicide and you are looking for something beyond traditional grief support.

Maybe you’re newly bereaved.

Maybe many years have passed and you’re surprised by how grief continues to evolve.

Maybe you have done a tremendous amount of healing already—and you’re ready to explore what comes next.

You may be here because:

• You want support that feels human, honest, and grounded

• You’re tired of platitudes and want practical tools you can actually use

• You want to understand the connection between grief, trauma, and the nervous system

• You want to honor how your loved one lived—not only how they died

• You miss feeling connected to yourself

• You want to meet others who understand without needing a lengthy explanation

• You’re open to holistic and mind-body approaches to healing

• You’re beginning to wonder whether life can hold more than grief again

You do not have to be “ready to move on.”

You only need to be curious about what healing could look like for you.

Meet Jayne Madigan

Suicide Loss Survivor • Author • Speaker • Neuropsychotherapist • Retreat Facilitator

I did not choose this work because suicide loss was an interesting subject to study.

I chose it because I have lived it.

Across more than three decades, I have experienced four suicide losses—each one changing my understanding of grief, trauma, love, and what it means to keep living after someone you love dies.

My personal experience eventually became a professional calling.

Today, I bring together lived experience with training in neuropsychotherapy, suicide bereavement, EFT/Tapping, energy medicine, somatic healing, nervous system regulation, meditation, and grief support.

But credentials alone are not what guide this work.

Humanity does.

I believe survivors deserve places where we can tell the truth about grief while also talking about life.

Where sorrow is welcome—but so is laughter.

Where your loved one can be spoken about openly.

Where healing does not mean forgetting.

And where wanting a beautiful life does not mean you loved them any less.

My role is not to tell you how to grieve.

It is to offer tools, experiences, perspective, and compassionate spaces that help you discover your own way forward.

The Healing After Suicide Pathway™

My approach is grounded in the Healing After Suicide Pathway™—a trauma-informed framework that brings together neuroscience, nervous system regulation, EFT/Tapping, somatic practices, nature-based experiences, reflection, and meaningful connection.

At the heart of this work is the H.O.P.E.S. Method™:

H — Honor Your Feelings
Make space for what is true without judging or rushing it.

O — Observe with Compassion
Notice your thoughts, emotions, patterns, and physical responses with curiosity rather than criticism.

P — Picture Your Healing
Begin imagining what life could look and feel like beyond survival.

E — Engage with Life
Gently reconnect with relationships, experiences, purpose, beauty, and the world around you.

S — Scribe Your Journey
Use reflection and writing to process what has been, recognize what is changing, and give voice to what comes next.

This is not a formula for grief.

It is a pathway for living with it.

Ways to Work Together

Healing Retreats

Intimate healing experiences in beautiful places where women can step away from everyday demands, connect with others who understand suicide loss, learn practical healing tools, honor the people they love, and experience what it feels like to breathe a little more deeply again.

From restorative days close to home to transformational international journeys, each experience is thoughtfully created around one belief:

Grief and life are allowed to exist together.

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Workshops & Healing Experiences

Live and virtual programs exploring grief, trauma, nervous system regulation, post-traumatic growth, writing, EFT/Tapping, self-compassion, and the complicated experience of rebuilding life after suicide loss.

Come to learn.

Come to listen.

Come exactly as you are.

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Speaking & Education

Compassionate, thought-provoking conversations for organizations, conferences, support communities, and professionals who want to better understand suicide loss, grief, trauma, healing, and the human experience behind the statistics.

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Private Healing Sessions

Individualized support for survivors who want a more personal space to explore grief, nervous system regulation, emotional patterns, and practical healing tools.

Sessions are collaborative, compassionate, and tailored to where you are now—not where anyone thinks you should be.

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Stay close to the work.

Healing After Suicide experiences are intentionally personal, and many retreats and programs have limited enrollment.

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Your story is still being written.

Your life may never look exactly the way it did before your loss.

And perhaps healing is not about trying to make it.

Perhaps healing is learning to carry the love forward.

To discover what still matters.

To allow yourself to laugh again.

To travel.

To rest.

To connect.

To create.

To hope.

To build a life spacious enough for both the person you miss and the person you are becoming.

Whether your loss happened yesterday or decades ago, you do not have to know exactly how to get there.

You only have to know this:

There is more life ahead of you.

And you do not have to walk toward it alone.

With love and hope from one survivor to another,

Jayne Madigan

Founder, Healing After Suicide™
Author • Speaker • Suicide Loss Survivor
Creator of the H.O.P.E.S. Method™ and Healing After Suicide Pathway™