Losing My Partner to Suicide and Finding a Way Forward - with Lisa

Content warning: This episode includes discussion of suicide.We're sold a Disney-inspired story of love. Meet the love of your life, get married, have children and live happily ever after. But nothing in life is guaranteed.What happens when something cataclysmic changes your whole life’s path?How do you begin to rebuild after trauma and sudden loss?And who might you become when the dust starts to settle?This episode is Lisa’s story of losing her husband to suicide and how that suicide loss changed everything, leaving her a widow with three children at 31.In this conversation we explore:✨ The earth-shattering shock of sudden loss✨ How suicide loss impacted her self-esteem as a woman✨ What shifts when your “life plan” suddenly disappears✨ The stigma that shapes grief after suicide✨ Building new meaning and post-traumatic growth after lossThis is partly a story of what happened, but really a story of rebuilding life after losing a partner to suicide.If you’ve ever built a life you thought was certain, only to watch everything change overnight, then this one is for you.Follow the show on your favourite platforms:Instagram - @theweirdyearspodcast Tiktok - @theweirdyearsFollow  Lisa - @the_widowdiaries