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The Write Way to Grieve: Journaling Through the Aftermath of a Suicide
The death of a child is one of the deepest traumas known. When a child commits suicide, the trauma strikes deeper because of the guilt, social stigma and unanswered questions associated with suicide. How did everyone miss the signs of this child's emotional turmoil? Why did this happen?
There is no right way to grieve the death of a loved one.
The Write Way to Grieve tells the story of one mother's journey through grief in the years that followed her fourteen-year-old son Ryan's suicide. Author Terri Johnson's journal of poetry, prose, and pain reveals the steps and setbacks in her journey.
The discovery of Ryan's journal at school empowered her to find the truth in what happened and what might have happened if the journal had been treated differently.
The Write Way to Grieve is one mother's answer to her son's cry for help. Suicide should never be the answer. Terri Johnson wrote from her experience to inform others of suicide awareness, prevention and intervention so Ryan's death would not be in vain.
There is no right way to grieve the death of a loved one.
The Write Way to Grieve tells the story of one mother's journey through grief in the years that followed her fourteen-year-old son Ryan's suicide. Author Terri Johnson's journal of poetry, prose, and pain reveals the steps and setbacks in her journey.
The discovery of Ryan's journal at school empowered her to find the truth in what happened and what might have happened if the journal had been treated differently.
The Write Way to Grieve is one mother's answer to her son's cry for help. Suicide should never be the answer. Terri Johnson wrote from her experience to inform others of suicide awareness, prevention and intervention so Ryan's death would not be in vain.
182 pages, Paperback
Published March 22, 2018
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June 9, 2018
This book delivers a walk through deep tragedy alongside a grieving mother from the first news of her son's suicide to her emergence into peace. A deeply moving account of the social isolation and stigma endured by surviving family members, this story reveals the unblinking truth of what it's like to survive a tragedy. Told in journal entries, poetry, and essays written over a 27-year period, the reader is brought through each stage of grief. The author opens her heart and her life to help others through their journey of grief. Highly recommended for anyone who has lost a loved one to violence or suicide.
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November 23, 2018I just finished reading the book, “The Write Way to Grieve”. Although the title is a light-hearted play on words, it is not a light read. Terri’s story is tragic, sad, compelling, and important. Written after she turned from being identified as a mother to being is identified as a “suicide survivor” because she lost her 14 year-old son to suicide.
Suicide grief is different from any other kind of grief because it leaves the family left behind with emotions of guilt, shame, and isolation. Friends and coworkers do not know what to do or say, and very often they take the easy way out and avoid saying anything at all. This book is about Terri’s journey that no mother should have to go through.
Terri’s courage to share will help others who find themselves in the place that still has a social stigma, which makes survivors feel abandoned and alone. Terri’s book is comforting as she sheds light on myths and misnomers, while putting words to the unbearable emotions of the love ones left behind. She shares her journey with personal journal pages, narrative about what happened in the aftermath and how co-workers and friends stumbled to speak to her.
Her poetry is poignant and breathtakingly beautiful. It is not a book for everyone but for the unique group of people who are “suicide survivors”. It brings the taboo subject out into the open, addresses fears and myths surrounding suicide, and with hope, it will help open the eyes of people who don’t know what to do or say when faced with suicide or the possibility of someone they know who is thinking about suicide.
It is a powerful book, which is too difficult to a give star rating for the general public looking for a book to entertain, nevertheless, it is a true gift to its readers.
Suicide grief is different from any other kind of grief because it leaves the family left behind with emotions of guilt, shame, and isolation. Friends and coworkers do not know what to do or say, and very often they take the easy way out and avoid saying anything at all. This book is about Terri’s journey that no mother should have to go through.
Terri’s courage to share will help others who find themselves in the place that still has a social stigma, which makes survivors feel abandoned and alone. Terri’s book is comforting as she sheds light on myths and misnomers, while putting words to the unbearable emotions of the love ones left behind. She shares her journey with personal journal pages, narrative about what happened in the aftermath and how co-workers and friends stumbled to speak to her.
Her poetry is poignant and breathtakingly beautiful. It is not a book for everyone but for the unique group of people who are “suicide survivors”. It brings the taboo subject out into the open, addresses fears and myths surrounding suicide, and with hope, it will help open the eyes of people who don’t know what to do or say when faced with suicide or the possibility of someone they know who is thinking about suicide.
It is a powerful book, which is too difficult to a give star rating for the general public looking for a book to entertain, nevertheless, it is a true gift to its readers.
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