Healing Steps: 30 Day Self-Guided Program
Suicide Grief: Coping with a Loved One’s Suicide
The loss of someone you love from suicide can be devastating. But there are ways to navigate the shock, confusion, and despair and begin the healing process.
Dealing with Suicide Loss
Facing the loss of a loved one is always difficult, but losing someone to suicide can add another level of pain to your grief. The shock and anguish following a suicide can seem overwhelming. As well as mourning your loved one’s passing, you’re likely also wrestling with a host of conflicting emotions and struggling to come to terms with the nature of their death.
You may feel guilty, wishing you’d done more to prevent their suicide, upset at yourself or others for having missed any clues to their intentions, or even angry at your loved one for abandoning you. Many people grieving a suicide start to question the relationship they shared with the person, wondering why it wasn’t enough to keep them alive. Some even experience suicidal thoughts of their own. Compounding all this is the nagging question “Why?”, the replaying of your loved one’s final act over and over in your head, and the constant second guessing of what you could’ve done differently.
At such a devastating time, you may also find yourself having to deal with police questions, media intrusion, and the stigma that suicide can still carry. Suicide may conflict with your culture or religious views, some friends and family may feel too uncomfortable to reach out to you, while others may feel less sympathy for a death that was “self-inflicted”. Denied your usual sources of comfort, you can be left feeling isolated and alone in your grief.
It’s likely you’ll always be left with some unanswered questions about your loved one’s suicide—and the sadness at losing them in such a tragic way will never completely disappear—but there are ways to deal with the pain. As difficult as it may seem at the moment, in time you can learn to come to terms with your loss, resolve your grief, and even gain some level of acceptance in order to move forward with your life.
Healing Steps is a 6 Week Self-Guided Program, that is designed for survivors of suicide loss that need help navigating the devastating sea of emotions after losing a loved one to suicide.
Created and facilitated by Jayne Madigan, a 32 year, three time survivor of suicide loss, Neuropsychotherapist and Suicide Bereavement Specialist; Healing Steps is based on the holistic and somatic tools and techniques that Jayne personally used on her own healing journey and has shared with her private clients. Now anyone anywhere can take advantage of these tools instantly.
This self-guided program will teach you simple tools to effectively move through the six stages of grief which include:
Stage 1: Denial
Stage 2: Anger
Stage 3: Bargaining
Stage 4: Depression
Stage 5: Acceptance
Stage 6: Reconstruction/Moving On
Weekly video lessons and exercises will include the use of holistic tools such as journaling, meditation, chair yoga, sound healing, Emotional Freedom Techniques (aka tapping), energy healing exercises & more!
BONUS: These tools and techniques can also be used in all areas of your life, not just grief!
We hope you decide to take the first step, to discover compassionate support and holistic healing with Jayne Madigan, your guide through the uncharted path of suicide bereavement.