Suicide Loss Resources & Events
Connect and learn about organizations and groups that understand the impacts of losing a loved one to suicide and prevention efforts within your community.
Additional Resources
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HeartLight Highlight: Finding the Facts on Suicide & Suicide Prevention
HeartLight Center uses our unique insights gathered over two decades of working with grief and loss to navigate a complex web of data, myths, and stigmas. By bridging research and real-world experience, we aim to demystify suicide, present clear facts, and offer effective prevention strategies.
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Understanding Your Suicide Grief by Dr. Alan Wolfelt
Book and Workbook. A compassionate guide exploring unique responses to grief after a loved one’s suicide, offering 10 touchstones for hope and healing. This book is easy to read and the workbook offers prompts and space for reflection and writing, methods that are proven to help process grief.
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Surviving Suicide: A Mother’s Story by Heather Hapeta
Written by a mother and therapist, this is a practical guide for people who have had someone die by suicide. Heather shares about her son, Greg’s, motorbike accident at 15 and then suicide at age 20. She offers helpful tips for surviving grief and offers ways friends can help each other during an extremely difficult time.
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Bearing the Unbearable: Love, Loss and the Heartbreaking Path of Grief by Joanne Cacciatore
Written by Dr. Cacciatore, a counselor, educator and Zen priest shares moving stories of what she has learned from decades of supporting individuals, families and communities, as well as her own experience with loss. This book helps to validate how the process of grief can feel wild, nonlinear and last much longer than people tell us it should.
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I Wasn’t Ready to Say Goodbye by Brook Noel and Pamela D. Blair, PhD
Surviving, Coping and Healing After the Sudden Death of a Loved One
This book offers the compassion and clarity you need when grief is sudden, raw, and overwhelming. Brook and Pamela offer tools, support, guidance and ways to honor your loss while finding meaning and hope again.
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Silent Grief: Living in the Wake of Suicide by Chirstopher Lukas and Henry Seiden
This book gives insights into the pain and suffering involved when people are grieving for someone who has died by suicide, but it also offers hope without diminishing the significance of the suffering involved. As such, it has a lot to offer, and is therefore to be welcomed.
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The Traumatic Loss Workbook by Jennifer R. Levin PhD LMFT
Powerful Skills for Navigating the Grief Caused by a Sudden or Unexpected Death. The Traumatic Loss Workbook offers an integrative approach drawing on cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), emotional regulation skills, mindfulness techniques, and narrative therapy to support you through the grief process, so you can move forward after the sudden or unexpected death of a loved one.
