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A Survivors Road to Healing by Louise Wirick
After my sons suicide the pain ran so deep
it felt like it would be fatal!
I desperately searched for someone to understand this unique pain and help me find my way toward healing. But I had no idea where to even begin to find that help.
Books were difficult to comprehend. My attention span was too short to read even one chapter and remember what I'd read. I needed a support group, but couldn't find a good one in my area. I needed someone that could help me!
For that reason (and at the request of many survivors over the years) I wrote this book. It reads as if you were in a suicide survivors support group. You can open to any page and it will make sense and be helpful to you. It will pertain to you because it was written for you, my fellow survivors of suicide.
The audio version is an instant download and can be loaded onto your ipods, iphone, MP3 players, burned onto a CD or listened to from your computer. I found audio books to be much more beneficial to me during those early months simply because I could listen to them and comprehend them much better. Play it over and over if necessary.
The Paperback will be mail to you, but instant download is available for the Digital and Audio book versions.
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Spring! When
Nature Wakes Up
Spring has sprung!
As the long winter comes to an end, and all of nature stretches and wakes up, we enter into the season of the highest suicide rate.
Most people believe that Christmas time has the highest suicide rate. The truth is that late spring, early summer is actually the season with the highest rate of suicides. (May ranks highest)
It seems to be agreed upon that the extra sunshine, which helps combat depression, may also provide the energy people need to act on their suicidal feelings. It is also reported that people coming out of depression are more apt to suicide. As they begin to feel better, it gives them the energy to suicide.
STATS
There is one suicide every 84 minutes in the UK and Ireland. In the US there's a suicide every 16 minutes.
According to Wikipedia the highest suicide rate is in Eupore's Baltic States, and the lowest rate is in Latin America.
WHO (World Health Organization) reports that somewhere in the world a suicide takes place every 40 SECONDS. In the time it took you to read this short article, someone took their life.
This site is still under construction. We will be adding a lot of new things in the next few weeks. Come back and check out our blog, podcast and other helpful information we will be adding. Much more coming soon!
About the Author
Louise knows first-hand about being hurled into the nightmare of being a suicide survivor. On January 23, 1994 her favorite nephew took his life. On November 16, 1998 her only son took his own life. Her mother also suicided in April 2003.
In January 1999 she founded Survivors Road2healing, a non-profit organization whose sole purpose is to help survivors work through the aftermath of suicide. She has led support groups in the DFW area for eight years. Louise is very involved in her community and online helping fellow survivors reclaim their lives.
She speaks to groups such as Victim Assistance training groups, Rookie Cop classes, and at community luncheons. She is available to speak to any group, including those trying to work through the aftermath of suicide, such as schools or the work place. She also speaks to Stephen Ministries and church staffs. If you would like to book her to speak, please email her at: louise [at ]aSurvivorsRoadToHealing.com.
Louise has two daughters and five grandchildren. She is an ordained minister, living in Euless, TX.