Overcoming Suicide

As they're tormented with so much loss & pain, you can remind them who they are...

Walking in the front door to your home, you can tell something is different. The driveway is crowded with unfamiliar cars. One parent greets you at the door with tears streaming down their face. You start to cry, but you do not know why. You feel the connection to their pain. Without noticing the countless friends and family now gathered in your home, out of the cleft of their shattered hearts the words slam into your chest “It’s just going to be you, me, and your brother now”. 

Your lungs burn. Your heart pounds. Everything goes silent and dark except for those words. Those massive words that feel like the slam of a javelin reverberating through you. Suddenly you gasp for air “What happened?!?!”

Not only had your father passed away, but he chose to end his own life. He shot himself in the head. Flooded with memories of the one you loved, and suddenly lost, tears are just pouring out of you. You become lost in a sea of puffy raw, and red complexions. Every thought that comes terrifies you. Life without them. How do you process the image of someone you love in so much pain?  Goodbye? You’re not ready to say goodbye. You’re still in shock and complete disillusionment. 

They’re not supposed to be gone YET. This can not be happening. This was your dad. Maybe you know someone who has been here. What do you say at that moment? What do you do? 

Suicide - a subject so many DON’T know what to say or do with.  But it leaves a wake of pain to which not many know the depths.  Drenched in pain and heartache, they feel trapped and it’s hard to see a way out. They wonder if those thoughts plaguing their mind will follow them for the rest of their life. Tormented, sleepless, and restless. Deep down, they hope and pray this ISN’T it - the end.

When you’re in that darkness, one light can do so much.  But the journey is far from over. Those left behind to traverse and sift through the turmoil that occurs in a family who has lost someone they loved to suicide is life-long no matter their age.

They’ve embarked on a journey they didn’t choose. They are having to rediscover their place in the world, filled with screaming questions and whispered answers. In a world that doesn’t know HOW to come beside those who have been thrown under the wheels of mental health while their loss is screeching and leaving marks all over them.

One simple act of love can make such a powerful difference. 

Your donation helps connect someone who has lost someone they loved to suicide to an overcomer we know who not only is further along in that healing journey but has started a movement to continue doing that very thing! Your donation will put an Overcomers Kit into the hands of one who has lost someone they loved so tragically too. Equipping them with a message that if she can do it, so can they. While reminding them of who they ARE - an Overcomer!

We’re not ones to sit here idly when we know someone is hurting. We’re here to take action. We’re here to help them move forward. 

So as all the voices inside them are shouting and tormenting them with pain, frustration, and fear…we’re calmly coming beside them, letting them know they are not alone as they journey forward, and reminding them who they ARE. 

You don’t need to worry about what to say, about suicide…let us say it for you. And let’s do more TOGETHER. Let’s become an unstoppable force of LIGHT in the wake of so much loss & tragedy!