What happens when a gentle soul falls into the wrong tribe. This is a journey through profound impact, inviting silent witness to a story that demands to be heard.
#DaughterWound #TheDaughterWoundProject #suicideloss #grief #familytrauma #cptsd #generationaltrauma
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Better words exist. Let’s use them.
❌ We don’t say “committed suicide.”
We choose gentler alternatives, like “died by suicide.”
Because no one commits cancer. Or heartbreak.
It’s not political correctness. It’s kindness.
#DaddyBlackbird #SuicideLoss #Grief #Hope
My daughter was 2 when her dad died by #suicide.
Kids don’t always talk about #grief but it’s always there 💔
Years later, a comment, a #dream, a quiet moment shows it.
Watching her has taught me how we quietly carry #loss.
#DaddyBlackbird #SuicideLoss #Hope 💛🐦⬛
My 14 yr old daughter lost her very best friend to suicide at age 13 due to depression and issues with school. They were like twins. My daughter was devastated. Refused to go back to school, too difficult now alone. School did nothing to encourage her to return.
#suicideprevention #mentalhealth #suicideloss #depression #studentmentalhealth #youthsuicideprevention #schoolphobia #ymhc
First death, then exile. After suicide loss, the system brings a secondary trauma: estrangement from our Daughter & Grandchildren. The Daughter Wound enforces conditions on love. Yet, we survive.
#DaughterWound #TheDaughterWoundProject #suicideloss #nocontact
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Suicide doesn’t discriminate. Compassion shouldn’t either.
❌MYTH: It only happens to certain people.
✔️FACT: #Suicide doesn’t belong to one gender, culture, age, or group. Although we know it’s more common among men, it can affect anyone.
We all have a role to play in noticing, listening, and supporting 💛
#DaddyBlackbird #SuicideLoss #hope 🐦⬛
You don’t get over it, you grow around it.
❌ MYTH: You should be ‘over it’ by now.
✔️ FACT: There’s no deadline for grief. We don’t move on, we move forward, carrying what we lost.
#DaddyBlackbird #SuicideLoss #Grief
In the weeks after Steve’s suicide, family gathered.
Then, slowly disappeared.
Most never returned.
The world became smaller.
But what remained - my girls, my mum - became everything.
Learning to fiercely love those who stay is one way I survived.
#DaddyBlackbird #SuicideLoss #Hope 💛🐦⬛
Grief after suicide is unique. There’s no rush to ‘move on.’
Everyone grieves in their own way and time.
There is no “normal” timeline, path or flow after suicide loss.
The pain will twist and turn, come and go.
Be patient, with yourself and with each other 💛
#DaddyBlackbird #MentalHealth #Wellbeing #SuicideLoss #Kindness #Hope 🐦⬛🪁
When someone dies by suicide, they were rarely “at war with themselves.”
Most were fighting pain no one could see.
And those left behind are not collateral damage.
We are living with the aftermath.
Language matters. Truth matters.
#SuicideAwareness #SuicideLoss #EndTheStigma #JustMedicateMe
Conditional love is just an eviction notice waiting to happen. Suicide loss just speeds up the process.
We are documenting the erasure of the Daughter Wound.
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#DaughterWound #estrangement #suicideloss #cptsd
In the weeks after Steve’s suicide, family gathered.
Then, slowly disappeared.
Most never returned.
The world became smaller.
But what remained - my girls, my mum - became everything.
Learning to fiercely love those who stay is one way I survived.
#DaddyBlackbird #SuicideLoss #Hope 💛🐦⬛
Survival can look like strength. Or denial. Or both.
People grieving after loss by suicide can look like they’re coping.
They show up. They laugh. They keep going.
But that doesn’t mean they’re okay.
Sometimes, the bravest face hides the deepest ache.
#DaddyBlackbird #SuicideLoss #Grief #Hope
"You didn’t have to be close to be changed."
❌ MYTH: Only close friends and family are affected by a suicide.
✔️ FACT: One single suicide touches on average 135 people - from friends to colleagues to strangers who saw themselves in the story.
#DaddyBlackbird #SuicideLoss #SuicideAwareness #Postvention #GriefHasNoRules
Grief doesn’t expire
I used to think grief had a timeline. My workplace definitely did.
But it doesn’t work like that.
It shifts, softens, spikes, surprises, years later.
Not because we’re failing to ‘move on’, but because love keeps living alongside us.
Missing someone does too 💔
#DaddyBlackbird #SuicideLoss
Better words exist. Let’s use them.
❌ We don’t say “committed suicide.”
We choose gentler alternatives, like “died by suicide.”
Because no one commits cancer. Or heartbreak.
It’s not political correctness. It’s kindness.
#DaddyBlackbird #SuicideLoss #Grief #Hope
When Steve died, I lost many things beyond the painfully obvious 💔
Time to myself.
Energy.
The ease of knowing we were facing family life together.
Even opportunities to leave the house...
So I found new ways to keep stepping forward.
#DaddyBlackbird #SuicideLoss #Hope 💛🐦⬛
A blonde teenage girl with glasses poses with wrapped birthday presents on her 13th birthday.
It’s your 16th birthday today. The third one you’ve been gone for 💔 It doesn’t get easier, life moves on but I never will. I miss you every minute, my beautiful Flossie 💛 #childloss #sweet16 #grief #bereaved #suicideloss #suicideawareness
Two birds sit on a park bench beside a cluster of butterflies. The accompanying text reads: if this world were a little kinder… we might all want to stay in it a little longer.
Whoever you come across today, give them a reason to smile.
They might need it more than you could ever know 💛🐦⬛
#DaddyBlackbird #MentalHealth #Wellbeing #SuicideLoss #Kindness #Compassion #Hope
After Steve died, I blamed him for everything.
The traffic. The broken WiFi. My inability to cope.
None of it was his fault.
But grief had stolen my capacity to reason, to exist.
Tiny, repeatable habits slowly gave me back a sense of control.
#DaddyBlackbird #SuicideLoss #Hope 💛🐦⬛
5/5…has also proved the right time to have finally submitted an application for ethical approval for a project entitled: ‘’Survivor’ or ‘Wayfinder’? An Autoethnographic Interrogation of an Identity-term After and Across Adult-Sibling Suicide Loss”. Onward! #AcademicSky #SuicideLoss
She turned her brother's death into a weapon. When a sibling uses a tragedy to rewrite history and attack the living, the grief becomes a battlefield.
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#DaughterWound #estrangement #toxicfamily #suicideloss #narcissisticabuse #grief
“Every suicide leaves behind a legacy of loss.” — World Health Organization
We talk lots about suicide prevention.
We talk far less about what happens after.
Grief, anger, confusion, love.
All existing at once.
Postvention matters, and so do the people living with the aftermath 💛🐦⬛
#DaddyBlackbird #Suicide #SuicideLoss #Grief #Bereavement #PTSD #Healing #Hope
“Suicide leaves questions that never have answers.” — Kay Redfield Jamison
Suicide loss is different.
It’s bewildering in a way that’s hard to explain, especially when the person you trusted most is the one who’s gone.
Naming that truth matters 💛🐦⬛
#DaddyBlackbird #SuicideLoss #MentalHealth #Wellbeing #Healing #Hope
Brighter days can come.
Talking about suicide doesn’t cancel out hope.
Healing, support, and brighter days can exist alongside the darkest thoughts.
Survival is possible and sometimes hope starts with hearing that 💛🐦⬛
#DaddyBlackbird #SuicideLoss #Healing #Hope
There is no right way to grieve
Grief isn’t just sadness.
Sometimes it’s anger.
Sometimes rage.
Sometimes exhaustion.
None of it makes you a bad person.
It makes you human 💛🐦⬛
#DaddyBlackbird #Grief #Loss #SuicideLoss #Healing #Hope
A range of photos of the book, Daddy Blackbird as well as friendship bracelets
“It’s amazing how a little tomorrow can make up for a whole lot of yesterday.” | John Guare
#DaddyBlackbird #SuicidePrevention #SuicideLoss #MentalHealth #Wellbeing #Healing #Hope 💛🐦⬛
“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
You are more than the worst thing that’s happened to you.
Even when it takes years to believe that 💛🐦⬛
#DaddyBlackbird #Love #Loss #SuicideLoss #Healing #Hope
After suicide loss, the mind doesn’t move on 💔
It replays, interrogates, and ambushes.
I wrote about PTSD, trauma therapy, what it actually means to live alongside unbearable memories and how I overcame them 💛🐦⬛
#DaddyBlackbird #SuicideLoss #MentalHealth #PTSD #Therapy
