Survived to Thrive Podcast
A podcast designed for survivors of suicide loss. This podcast explores the unique grief experiences that accompany a loved ones death due to suicide, shares insights on how your brain processes this kind of loss, and offers worthwhile and valuable tips you can start today to gain a more joyful and fulfilling life even though your loved one died.
Episodes
126 episodes
Episode 126: Hope Without Platitudes -- When you are NOT OKAY, and that's OKAY!
We explore a gentler definition of hope after suicide loss, naming why platitudes hurt and how small, truthful choices can carry us through. We lean into borrowed hope, rest over pressure, and the fear that healing might mean forgetting.
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Episode125: When Fear Takes Over After Suicide Loss- And How To Reclaim Your Life
We explore how fear shows up after suicide loss and why it feels so convincing, then share practical ways to carry fear without letting it decide your life. Amy offers gentle, concrete tools to ground the body, rebuild self-trust, and redefine ...
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Episode 124: The Moment You Realize Life Will Never Be The Same- And How To Live Anyway!
The ground doesn’t always give way the day you get the news. Sometimes it happens weeks or years later, when the shock dissolves and the truth lands: life will never be the same. In this conversation, we name that moment with care and give you ...
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Episode 123: New Year, New Beginnings and Reclaiming our Lives
We open the new year with a clear message: survival proves strength, and reclaiming life after suicide loss does not mean forgetting or betraying love. We share tools to release guilt, set humane intentions, and begin again with small, sustaina...
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Episode 122: Dropping Should From Your Grief Vocabulary
We explore how the word should adds shame to suicide grief and offer simple reframes that invite compassion, especially during the holidays. We share three harmful shoulds, teach a four-step should detox, and close with guided statements to gro...
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Episode 121: Finding Peace After Suicide Loss
We redefine peace after suicide loss as a daily practice that lives alongside grief, not a finish line or proof you are over it. We share trauma-informed tools, clean vs dirty pain, and five practical steps to make room for safety, meaning, and...
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Episode 120: When you don't feel like doing ANYTHING!
We explore why grief after suicide loss can erase motivation and how to honor that reality without shame. We reframe “doing nothing” as healing, then map tiny actions, five-minute care, and honest limits that support your nervous system and you...
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Episode 119: When Other Relationships Struggle After Losing A Loved One.
We explore how suicide loss reshapes marriages, families, friendships, and the relationship with self, and we share practical tools to repair or release ties with clarity and compassion. We offer boundary scripts, ways to communicate needs, and...
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Episode 119
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Episode 118: When more tragedy strikes, dealing with the triggers.
We explore why public tragedy reactivates suicide grief and how to respond with steadiness, compassion, and choice. We share practical tools to set media boundaries, ground the body, reclaim agency, and honor our loved ones with purpose.
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Episode 117: When It's Time To Shift After Suicide Loss.
Survivors of suicide loss often experience an inner nudge suggesting it's time to shift and move forward with life, bringing feelings of guilt, fear, and confusion about what this transition should look like. • Recognizing that gri...
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Episode 116: When Overwhelm Feels Too Heavy
Overwhelm after suicide loss feels uniquely crushing, but there are practical ways to navigate these heavy feelings without trying to do everything at once. We explore why overwhelm feels different after suicide loss and share a step-by-step ap...
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15:30
Episode 115: When Grief Needs More Than Time
The painful journey of grief after losing someone to suicide rarely follows a simple timeline. When is "giving it time" not enough? When should you consider reaching out for professional help?That question sits at the heart of this deep...
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Episode 115
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29:06
Episode 114: Asking Why: The Search for Answers After Suicide Loss
Why did they do it? This question haunts every survivor of suicide loss, creating a continuous loop of painful speculation that can keep us trapped in grief. In episode 114 of the Survived to Thrive podcast, Amy Miller explores the complex rela...
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Episode 114
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Episode 113: Anxiety After Loss: Understanding the Why and Healing The How
That racing heart at 3 AM. The constant checking on loved ones. The spiral of "what-ifs." If anxiety has become your unwelcome companion since losing someone to suicide, you're facing one of grief's most challenging but least discussed symptoms...
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Episode 112: How to find friends that support you and get it!
Friendship becomes a complicated landscape to navigate after losing someone to suicide. That steady ground of connection we once took for granted suddenly shifts beneath our feet as we discover who can truly handle the weight of our grief and w...
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Episode 111: When grief meets financial insecurity!
Financial insecurity often accompanies suicide loss, creating additional stress during an already devastating time. While grief alone is overwhelming, money problems can add confusion, fear, guilt, and anger as survivors navigate the aftermath....
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Episode 110: When Divorce Is On The Horizon
Suicide loss fundamentally changes who we are, and sometimes these changes lead couples down divergent paths that can end in divorce. The aftermath of suicide often exposes existing fractures in relationships or creates new challenges as each p...
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Episode 110
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Episode 109: When Work Feels Like Too Much: Returning to Work After Suicide Loss
The jarring disconnect between your shattered world and the normal workplace environment can feel impossible to navigate after losing someone to suicide. Whether you're returning after a few days of bereavement leave or struggling months later,...
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Episode 109
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Episode 108: When Grief Works Against You
Grief serves as a natural healing mechanism after losing someone to suicide, but certain thought patterns and behaviors can transform it from a healing tool into an obstacle that keeps us stuck.• Grief is love with nowhere to go - an ex...
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Episode 108
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Episode 107: Why Grief Makes You Sweat The Small Stuff And How To Overcome It.
Grief physically changes your brain, magnifying minor frustrations and triggering disproportionate emotional responses to life's small annoyances. Understanding the neuroscience behind these reactions can help survivors of suicide loss develop ...
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Episode 106: The Power of Planning For The Future.
We explore the healing power of making future plans after suicide loss, demonstrating how looking forward can create purpose and stability while honoring our grief journey. Planning isn't about forgetting our loved ones but choosing to live ful...
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Episode 106
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Episode 105: How to deal with not getting any closure.
Closure after suicide loss—it's what so many of us desperately seek,yet what if closure isn't something we're meant to have? What if it's not even real?In this deeply compassionate exploration of grief after suicide loss, Amy challenges...
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Episode 105
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Episode 104: Can I love my life again?
In this episode we explores the possibility of loving life again after suicide loss, challenging the painful lie that grief tells survivors about never finding happiness after such devastating loss.• Healing doesn't mean "moving on" fro...
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Episode 104
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Episode 103: The Company You Keep In Grief.
Join us for a heartfelt exploration of how the people in our lives shape our grief and healing journey. In today’s episode, we discuss the often-overlooked influence of our relationships on how we process loss, particularly when it comes to the...
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Episode 103
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Episode 102: Breaking Free from Victim Mentality After Suicide Loss
Grief is an overwhelming journey, especially after the loss of a loved one to suicide. In this episode of the Survived to Thrive Podcast, Amy Miller explores the profound complexities surrounding grief and the often misunderstood concept of vic...
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Episode 102
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