Military Mental Health - After the Unthinkable: Choosing Life, Love, and Legacy

About this episode

Kim Burditt Bartlett shares her journey of grief after losing her brother to suicide and discusses the Black Box Project for suicide prevention.

After losing her younger brother, Jon, to suicide, Kim Burditt Bartlett’s world was irrevocably changed. In this heartfelt conversation, Kim shares how grief reshaped her understanding of love, identity, and what it means to live forward without letting go of those we’ve lost. She also introduces the Black Box Project, an innovative and deeply human approach to suicide prevention that honors loss by transforming it into life-saving research and lasting legacy. My goal is to uplift and empower you to live the life you love. To take care of yourself and advocate for yourself in order to live a more fulfilled life and better care and love those around you.

People in this episode

Host: Erica Gifford Mills

Guest: Kim Burditt Bartlett

Topics covered

• military mental health
• grief
• suicide prevention
• love
• identity
• legacy

Keywords

• mental health
• suicide
• grief
• Black Box Project
• self-care
• advocacy
• legacy

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