What You Choose to Define You

This morning on "The Dolly McCarthy Show," during my Good Inspirations segment, Dolly and I discussed a [image error]sibling survivor of suicide who she had on earlier who was discussing his non-profit that helps families pay for funerals after suicides. When it was my turn, Dolly asked me if I wanted to piggyback on or add to anything he said. He is 21 now and lost his brother when he was 16.

I knew his energy well because I at one time had that energy to help people bereaved by suicide. I had a strong need to reach sibling survivors of suicide and anyone else who lost someone. I devoted most of the energy in my life to this. But about five years ago I woke up and realized that my sister, while happy for all the work I have done around sibling suicide loss, would remind me not to forget who I was before she died.