Legacy After Child Loss by Suicide: What Alex Taught Me About Carrying Love Forward
About this episode
Melissa Bottorff-Arey reflects on legacy after child loss by suicide, sharing insights from her chapter in a collective work about children lost to suicide.
After child loss by suicide, legacy can become a bridge from survival into connection, meaning, and carrying love forward. In this episode of Down the Rabbit Hole, Melissa reads her chapter from Because They Lived: Memories & Stories of Amazing Kids Lost to Suicide - As Told by the Moms They Left Behind --Volume 7, The chapter is titled “The Seventh Thread: What Alex Taught Me About Legacy.” This episode is part reflection, part chapter reading, and part invitation to think differently ab...
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