Transforming Grief Into Meaning: How Stories and Art Support Children After Suicide with Ryan Abramowitz
About this episode
Ryan Abramowitz discusses how he uses art and storytelling to help children cope with grief after losing someone to suicide.
What happens when a child loses someone to suicide — and the adults around them are silent because they don’t know what to say? In this episode, we explore that question through art, science, and story.Australian author and illustrator Ryan Abramowitz joins Hope Illuminated to share how he transformed his own loss — the suicide of his father — into the award-winning picture book Elegy for an Elephant. Through watercolor, poetry, and animal allegory, Ryan helps children step into grief without being swallowed by it. for more information on this episode go to https://www.sallyspencerthomas.com/hope-illuminated-podcast/156
Topics covered
- grief
- children
- suicide
- art
- storytelling
Keywords
- Elegy for an Elephant
- watercolor
- poetry
- animal allegory
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