Understand Suicide

May 10 2024 109 ep. 36 mins 84

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Become a Paid Subscriber: https://anchor.fmpaula-fontenelle/subscribe Here we will create a safe community to fight the stigma surrounding suicide. I will interview specialists, survivors, and individuals who have a story to tell. We will cover a variety of themes: grief, warning signs, risk factors, contagion, youth, and most importantly, what can be done to prevent suicide. To contact me, send a message to [email protected] Visit my page: www.understandsuicide.com Facebook Page: https://bit.ly/2MMLBWO

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Ep. 116 - How parents can help kids at risk | Nicole and Caroline

May 10 2024 25 mins

My guests today are Nicole Siegfried and Caroline Nichols. In this interview, they help us figure out how parents and families can help kids who struggle with suicidal thoughts, ideation, and previous attempts. This interview is the fourth of a week-long series, during which I will be publishing at least one episode every day directly from the 57th conference of the American Associ

Ep. 115 - Why are support groups healing? | Joan Hoff

May 09 2024 31 mins

My guest today is Joan Hoff. She has been facilitating loss groups for over thirty years, including support groups for children, families, and suicide loss survivors. Joan lost her husband to suicide and in this interview, she shares with us her experience with her own grief and why she believes in the healing power of groups. This interview is the third of a week-long series, duri

Ep. 114 - When a therapist loses a client to suicide | Khara Croswaite

May 08 2024 21 mins

My guest today is the therapist Khara Croswaite and the topic is "When therapists lose a client to suicide." What does the grief look like? Who do we go to? What helps? What about the shame of sharing with colleagues that you have lost a client in this manner? Khara knows some of those answers because she recently lost a client to suicide and she has been vulnerable and

Ep. 113 - Teen bereavement | Joanne Harpel

May 07 2024 24 mins

My guest today is Joanne Harpel, president of Coping after suicide and executive producer of the film “Talking Out Loud: Teen suicide loss, a Conversation.” She lost her brother Stephen to suicide in 1993. Since then, Joanne has been working on prevention and postvention, particularly with support groups. Our focus today is teen bereavement, a topic very rarely explored even h

Announcement: Daily episodes this week

May 06 2024 2 mins

This week, beginning tomorrow (Tuesday), I will be publishing at least one episode every day directly from the 57th conference of the American Association of Suicidology. Join me daily for interviews with key speakers, researchers, and loss survivors. Are you looking for an online suicide loss support group? Join mine: https://t.ly/gYW-G ⁠⁠Find my book "Understanding Suic

Ep. 112 - How can a partner help with grief? | Michelle Collins

Apr 01 2024 47 mins

After a series of losses, including the death of her mother and her husband’s suicide, Michelle Collins combined the tools she had collected as a yoga therapist and wellness coach and studies in positive psychology and neuroscience to turn post-traumatic stress disorder into post-traumatic growth and resilience. She is the author of two books: “Surviving Spousal or partner sui

Need an online suicide loss support group?

Feb 01 2024 2 mins

Are you looking for an online Suicide loss support group? We all know how heartbreaking this kind of loss is, and how we tend to isolate ourselves because we believe nobody will either listen to us or understand what we're going through. That’s when a support group can be a source of comfort, familiarity, and compassion, no matter where you are in your grief journey. And you mig

Ep. 111 - He lost his mother at age seven | Dr. Richard Brockman

Jan 25 2024 51 mins

Richard Brockman is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Columbia University, College of Physicians and Surgeons, and Attending Clinical Psychiatrist at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center. When he was seven years old he found his mother’s body after she died of suicide. This traumatizing experience re-shaped the narrative of his life. In his book, "Life After Death: Surviv

Ep. 110 - Two sisters grieving their mother's suicide | Kristyna and Veronika

Nov 14 2023 54 mins

Kristyna and Veronika Delmar are from the Czech Republic and they lost their mother to suicide a little over a year ago. In this interview, they share with us the different paths they took to live through their grief. Kristyna tried to “learn" everything she could about the topic by reading books and trying to get in touch with people who were going through the same kind of

Accepting new clients

Sep 22 2023 1 mins

From time to time, some of my listeners contacted me for therapy but in the past, I have not been able to accept new clients due to a lengthy waiting list. That has recently changed because I just opened my own practice, so I am taking new patients and have a few available spots. If you are searching for a therapist and you live in Oregon, in the US, contact me. I give a free 15-mi