Straight Talk with Melanie
Living life fully after the loss of a child to suicide is incredibly challenging. Straight Talk with Melanie offers a different perspective for those grappling with the profound grief. It is not a counseling session. Instead, it is a unique approach to help those coping with suicide of a loved one.
Many organizations offer counseling for those who have lost a loved one to suicide. Straight Talk, however, presents a four-step process that helps individuals remember their loved ones while learning to live with their loss in a new way. This approach emphasizes cherishing positive memories and interactions, keeping their spirit alive in your heart. While the pain of losing someone to suicide never fully disappears, it can become more manageable by focusing on the happy times you shared.
Melanie uses the lessons she learned in her book Suicide: A Mother’s Journey Through Her Child’s Pain. This is a 4-step system that is designed in a four one-hour course to shift perspective after losing a loved one to suicide that covers the following areas:
Step One: Recreating the Good Times
It is easy when you lose a loved one to suicide to focus on the bad times but why. This process will shift you into positive memories.
Step Two: Building Mental Awareness
In this lesson Melanie shows how to become aware and shift the depressed said thinking.
Step Three: Ending the Blame Game
Guilt and blame can be one of the most destructive emotions and you to learn to change it.
Step Four: Moving On & Learning to Live Life Fully
Here you learn how to live your life to the fullest without forgetting your loved one. Remember that your grief and loved one will always be a part of your life and how your loved one would not have wanted you to suffer.
