Shazza for Survivors of Suicide

*Trigger Warning* If you are struggling...please remember that you can text 45465 or call 833-456-4566 . "Forgive yourself. It's NOT yours to carry."... Hard lesson to learn. "She was the only one I would talk to the day after. Her name appeared on my phone. I was sitting on a deck in the Sunshine Coastmy eyes were swollen and it all still felt like a bad dream. All the rooms of the house were full of friends grievingscreams and sobs and silence throughout the night. Hello? I answered. It’s not your fault. Janne, you couldn’t have saved him. This is not yours, she replies. I begin to sob. But, what if I could have loved him back to life? What if I could have carried him? What if I could have kept him alive? No. You couldn’t have. You might have kept him alive for a little whilebut it would have taken every inch of your life force. Every inch of your light. You wouldn’t be able to do the work you’re here to do because you would just be the hands to hold him. Janne, it was not your job and this is not your fault. There are three humans in my life who I have let in when the darkest blankets of trauma wrap around me. These humans know exactly how to navigate. If you have lost someone to suicide, and you were close to them and didn’t know they were suicidalI want to speak to your heart for a moment in case no one ever did. Maybe you felt their sadnessmaybe they cried and you held them. Maybe you even asked if they were suicidal and they liedbecause of pride, because of shame, because of fear. You were not meant to know. You couldn’t have known. And furthermore, you do not control the feelings, actions or thoughts of anyone but yourself. Even if you laid by their side for 48 hours and listened, and held them and loved them through the nights, and did it all right you still couldn’t have saved them. People choose to save themselves. People choose to live. This was never meant to be your featto save them. Forgive yourself. It is not yours to carry."

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