Comments on: Storytelling as Grief Care

By: Amy Agape

Amy Agape — Mon, 13 Aug 2018 18:42:43 +0000

In reply to Barbara Breslau. Barbara, I'm happy you connected with this piece. Grief demands that we tell our stories, again and again and again. And it is sometime so challenging to find people who can truly listen to those stories. I am glad you have support. David sounds like a lovely man. I'm sorry he died. I pray for peace and comfort for all who loved him.

By: Amy Agape

Amy Agape — Mon, 13 Aug 2018 18:40:28 +0000

In reply to Cindy. Thank you for reading, Cindy. I'm glad you found something of value here. I send you and your family blessings on your journey.

By: Cindy

Cindy — Thu, 09 Aug 2018 17:05:20 +0000

Hi Amy! I wandered into this blog post through a night-time internet meander, and find it so lovely and helpful; relevant to my family this week so I shared it with them. Blessings to you and gracias for your offerings.

By: Barbara Breslau

Barbara Breslau — Thu, 09 Aug 2018 16:42:10 +0000

Thank you, Amy,
This is beautiful. I am still telling the story of my son, David, in my support group for people who have lost family members to suicide. We consider ourselves a “tribe” that listens to each other’s stories and gives support when we feel overwhelmed by the grief. This is the anniversary month of David’s death. It will be two years on August 30. I feel more fragile at this time this year than I did last year. David suffered from depression for most of his life. He worked hard to overcome it, reading everything he could find on the subject, going to therapists and psychiatrists for talk therapy and meds. He even tried iwaska at a sanctuary in Peru. And he was better after that, but it didn’t last. Four months before his 50th birthday, David shot himself. I realized this week that his was an act of power. Like a person with painful terminal cancer, he wanted to end the suffering and he didn’t want to be a burden to others. I didn’t mean to go on and on with my story. Buy David is the only one from the 40 or 50 who have passed through my support group that did not kill himself at home or jumping off a bridge. He want to a remote hiking trail, again not wanting to be a burden to anyone.