Writing as a Path to Healing
4-Week Workshop for Survivors of Suicide Loss
Facilitated by Best-Selling Author Carla Fine
March 18 – April 8, 2025 | Tuesdays at 7 PM (ET) | 90-minute sessions
Cost: $197 | Limited to 8 participants
Suicide is often considered the last taboo—something too painful, too complex, and too misunderstood to be spoken about openly. Even in today’s world, where almost nothing is off-limits, the loss of a loved one to suicide remains shrouded in silence. For many survivors, this silence becomes one of the heaviest burdens to carry.
Carla Fine knows this struggle firsthand. When her husband, a successful young physician, died by suicide in December 1989, she was thrust into a world of unimaginable grief—one compounded by the inability to talk about her loss. In her best-selling book, No Time to Say Goodbye: Surviving the Suicide of a Loved One, she brought suicide survival out of the darkness and into the light, giving voice to the overwhelming emotions of confusion, guilt, shame, anger, and loneliness that so many survivors experience.
In this four-week writing workshop, Carla will guide you through the healing power of words, helping you process your emotions, find clarity, and express the unspeakable. Writing can be a profound tool for grief—providing a safe space to release pain, make sense of loss, and reclaim your voice. Through guided prompts, storytelling, and shared reflections, you will explore your personal journey in a supportive and intimate setting.
This workshop is designed for anyone who has lost a loved one to suicide and is seeking a compassionate way to navigate grief. Whether you’re a seasoned writer or someone simply looking for a new way to heal, you are welcome here.
What You’ll Gain from This Workshop:
✔ A safe and supportive space to express your grief
✔ Writing exercises designed to unlock emotions and promote healing
✔ Insightful discussions and reflections with fellow survivors
✔ Guidance from Carla Fine, who has dedicated her life to supporting those left behind
✔ The opportunity to share your story—or simply listen and absorb
💙 Spaces are limited to just 8 participants to ensure a deeply personal and interactive experience.
🖊 Reserve your spot today. Because healing begins when we break the silence.
About Carla Fine:
Carla is the author of the widely acclaimed book, No Time to Say Goodbye: Surviving the Suicide of a Loved One published by Broadway Books/Doubleday in 1999. The book, now in its 29th printing, is also available in EBooks in Kindle and Nook, and in Japanese from Fuso Publishers; Korean from Kungree Publishers; and Portuguese from Martins Fontes Publishers.
No Time to Say Goodbye: Surviving the Suicide of a Loved One is a personal story--Ms. Fine's husband, a prominent New York physician, killed himself in 1989 at the age of 43. She also interviewed more than 60 other people who lost sons and daughters, wives and husbands, fathers and mothers, sisters and brothers, friends and relatives to suicide. The book describes the different stages of mourning surrounding the suicide of a loved one and helps survivors see that they are not alone in their confusion and grief.
Carla's most recent book, Touched By Suicide: Hope and Healing After Loss, written with Dr. Michael Myers, one of the leading clinicians in the field of suicide and professor of pyschiatry at the SUNY-Downstate Medical School in Brooklyn, New York, was published by Gotham Books/Penguin in 2006. The book offers detailed steps, practical suggestions, and compassionate guidance for coping after suicide.
Carla's work has also appeared in such publications as "Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior" (Guilford Press) and Medscape. She lectures extensively to suicide survivors' groups and professional organizations throughout the United States, Canada, Europe, and India. In addition, she offers workshops on writing as a path to healing when coping with the death of a loved one.
Carla is the author or coauthor of nine other books, including Inside the Upheaval of Journalism: Reporters Look Back on 50 Years of Covering the News (Peter Lang Publishers, 2019), with contributing chapter on changes in book publishing; Who Cares What You're Supposed to Do? Breaking the Rules to Get What You Want in Love, Life, and Work (Perigee/Penguin, 2004), written with Dr. Victoria Dickerson; Achievement Matters: Getting Your Child the Best Education Possible (Kensington Press, 2002), in collaboration with Hugh Price, president of the National Urban League; Strong, Smart, And Bold: Empowering Girls For Life (Cliff Street Books/HarperCollins, 2001); and The Miracles of Mentoring: How to Encourage and Lead Future Generation, in collaboration with Thomas Dortch, Jr., president of the 100 Black Men of America (Doubleday, 2000).
She is also the author of Just Because I'm Latin Doesn't Mean I Mambo: A Success Guide for Hispanic Americans, in collaboration with diversity specialist Juan Roberto Job (Ballantine Books, 1998); Married to Medicine: An Intimate Portrait of Doctors' Wives (Atheneum, 1981); and Barron's Guide to Foreign Medical Schools: Selecting Them, Surviving Them, and Successfully Practicing in the United States (Barron's Educational Series, 1979).
Carla has appeared on numerous national and local television and radio programs, including CBS Sunday Morning News, Oprah Winfrey, Court TV, Joan Rivers, Oxygen TV, New York One, NewsCenter 4, and Tony Brown's Journal. She received her Masters of Science degree with honors from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.
Carla lives in New York City with her husband, Allen Oster, and their two dogs Lillirosa, and Suzy. Carla is currently working on a book on women and resilience.
