Grief & Happiness

Trigger warning: Today's episode touches on extremely sensitive and upsetting topics.Losing someone to suicide is perhaps one of the most challenging and painful forms of grieving. Is it possible to find healing and hope after a loss from suicide? In today's episode, I'm joined by the Best-selling author, International speaker, and Mental Health advocate, Cindy Tank-Murphy, author of "The Strength to Live: Finding Healing and Hope After a Loss From Suicide." Cindy's work promotes conversations about overcoming the grief from suicide and the mental health epidemic the world is suffering from. Although the idea of writing a book had always been in Cindy's head, she never thought her first book would be about suicide, motivated by her father's decision to take his own life.  Throughout this episode, Cindy shares how losing her father to suicide in 2014 abruptly changed her views on grief and mental health issues and urged her to build safer places for her thoughts and feelings through writing. We also talk about how crucial it is to pay attention to the immense power of words and how to release fears and experience healing through writing and journaling. Additionally, we discuss how touching on sensible topics, such as the death of a child, might help to heal, the importance of losing the fear of saying something inappropriate, and more. Listen to episode 114 of Grief and Happiness and discover new ways of connecting with your strength to live after a loss from suicide. In This Episode, You Will Learn:A bit about Cindy and her decision to write a book about suicide and mental health (2:11)How to deal with ignorant comments (9:13)The importance of acknowledging red flags (16:18)The therapeutic properties of writing your feelings on a piece of paper (22:05)How to be at peace with knowing that you might say the wrong thing at the wrong time (31:01)Connect with Cindy:WebsiteInstagramFacebookEmail: cindy@thestrengthtolive.comBook: Cindy Tank-Murphy - The Strength to Live: Finding Healing and Hope After a Loss From SuicideLet's Connect:WebsiteLinkedInFacebookInstagramTwitterPinterestThe Grief and Happiness AllianceBook: Emily Thiroux Threatt - Loving and Living Your Way Through Grief

In This Episode, You Will Learn:Notice special moments when you remember your loved one.What special things remind you of your loved one?Request your Awaken Your Happiness Journaling Guide hereLet's Connect:WebsiteLinkedInInstagramTwitter - @ThreattEmilyPinterestThe Grief and Happiness AllianceBook: Emily Thiroux Threatt - Loving and Living Your Way Through GriefFacebookRequest your Awaken Your Happiness Journaling Guide here See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

It is possible to go on, no matter how impossible it seems, and in time, the grief lessens.In this episode, I am joined by Turner Grant,  an architect who lives in Washington, DC. After a life-long battle with depression, his wife of twenty years took her own life the day after Mother’s Day in 2010. Widowed at age fifty-one and deep in grief, Turner often found daily routines difficult and his work arduous. But after two years, he embarked on a journey to find his future, both in life and in love. His recently published book chronicles this journey.Throughout this episode, Turner shares his experience with grief and how it impacted his life. He also shares why the depression conversations need to happen more often to help those fighting it. Additionally, he’ll share his experiences trying to rediscover love and why he decided to write a book about it.Listen to episode 112 of Grief and Happiness to hear about Turner’s journey from grief to trying to rediscover love! In This Episode, You Will Learn:Turner’s experience with grief (00:36)Why the phrase death by suicide is right (12:04)Why we need to have more conversations around depression (18:46)Turner shares his experience trying to date again (29:18)Resources:Book - To Venus and Back: One Man's Quest to Rediscover LoveConnect with Turner:WebsiteLet's Connect:WebsiteLinkedInFacebookInstagramTwitterPinterestThe Grief and Happiness AllianceBook: Emily Thiroux Threatt - Loving and Living Your Way Through Grief