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I Held a Funeral For My Husband. Now, He Brings Me Flowers.

I held a funeral for my husband, but I was the only one there. It was 2012, and I watched as he walked past me in the kitchen. A shell of his former…

The first time I tried to kill myself, I was eight years old. The incessant bullying everywhere I turned literally sucked the life out of me; that…

Kate Spade is the most recent celebrity to bring suicide and suicide prevention back into the spotlight. So often people close to the victim never…

When it seems like someone has it all, seems is the word to key in on. Famed handbag designer, Kate Spade, was found dead in her New York City…

“No, you’re too young.” My 9-year-old groans and stomps away. Again. Same question. Same answer. Day after day lately. I know this…

It’s Saturday in January; you’re getting the family ready for your son’s basketball game. Your mom is coming to cheer on her grandson. Just…

You run into a friend. You have a minute, she has a minute so you stop and talk. She’s a good friend, a friend who has listened to you, laughed…

I have something really hard to say. I don’t know how to say it because I’m still processing it all, but I do have this sense of urgency…

It’s been six days. Yet it still seems unreal. Impossible. Unimaginable. But it is the reality for a Kansas City area family. On July 31, a…

It’s a parent’s greatest fear. Your baby, now a teenage boy who is taller than you, succumbs to his depression. He believes he has…