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Marshall has been serving communities touched by suicide for more than 5 years. She served on the NC Chapter Board for the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention on the Loss & Healing and Public Policy Committees for several years. For the past 5 years, she's been lovingly and devotedly facilitating support groups for Survivors of Suicide Loss. Using her own lived experience of surviving her father's suicide, independent research and what she's learned from folks she has companioned, she has developed a program to anchor others who are grieving suicide losses. The course combines body-awareness components and emotional acceptance to bring balance and address the deep grief of folks all over the world.
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Aug 18, 2026 ∙ 6 min
"Did My Person Go To Hell?"
An interfaith answer for survivors of suicide loss Content warning: suicide loss, religious harm Many survivors I've sat with have this question somewhere in them. Very few say it out loud. They'll say a lot of other things first. They'll talk about the funeral, the paperwork, the relative who won't return calls. And then sometimes, near the end of an hour, quietly, almost as an aside: I keep thinking about where he is. If you've been carrying that one alone, I want you to know it's one of...
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Aug 5, 2026 ∙ 5 min
How Losing Someone to Suicide Changed What I Believe About Everything
CW: suicide loss, faith, existential grief Before my dad died, I had a worldview. We all do. I didn't actually think of it as a worldview — I just thought of it as reality. The way things were. The assumptions that ran underneath everything like the operating system of my life. And then he died by suicide, and the operating system crashed. This is one of the most jarring aspects of losing a loved one to suicide. It's as if what you believed before is in jagged little pieces, shattered on the...
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Jul 16, 2026 ∙ 5 min
Nice People Aren’t Supposed to be Angry at the Dead
Angry at someone who died by suicide? It's okay. CW: suicide loss, grief, anger There's an emotion that shows up after suicide loss that no one really talks about. Not sadness — everyone expects that. Not shock or confusion or even guilt. Those get airtime. I'm talking about anger. At them. The person you lost. The person you loved. The person who left. I was immediately furious at my dad after he died. It scared me. My brother can attest to hearing it as soon as he called to tell me about...
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