March 2022
Please join us in a conversation with Marilyn Koenig and Sondra Sexton-Jones. Sondra is an American author and speaker on coping with grief following the death of a loved one by suicide or other means. She is a member of the Association for Death Education and Counseling, The American Counseling Association, and the American Association of Suicidology, having served as the past editor of Surviving Suicide, a newsletter for survivors of suicide, published by the American Association of Suicidology. She wrote her book, When Someone You Love Completes Suicide, after the death of her husband by suicide.
January 2022
Please join us in a conversation with Iris Bolton.
Iris is an international lecturer and consultant who offers hope to people bereaved by death, loss and suicide. She is Director Emeritus of The Link Counseling Center, Atlanta, Georgia, where she served as full-time Director for 36 years. Her first book, "MY SON ... MY SON ... A Guide to Healing After Death, Loss or Suicide," was written after her 20-year-old son, Mitch, took his own life in 1977. Her co-author was her father, Curtis Mitchell. It is now in its 23rd edition.
November 2021
Please join us in a conversation with Kim Burditt, Senior Manager, Programs & Trainings, Suicide Postvention and Carla Stumpf Patton, Ed.D., L.M.H.C.,F.T., Senior Director, Postvention Programs of T.A.P.S. (Tragedy Assistance Program For Survivors)
May 2021
Please join us as we chat with (left) J. David Pincus and (right) Rick Knapp, authors of Sons of Suicide: A Memoir of Friendship. Rick and David met in high school and soon realize they share a heartbreaking secret: Each of their mothers took her life just a few years earlier. Feeling lost and abandoned, they bonded instantly. Decades later, they learn that two other close friends had also lost parents to suicide. Over time, each of the four sons opens up about how his parent’s decision changed him and the course of his life. They soon discover that they are more than friends. They are brothers.
March 2021
Margo Fowkes
Please join us as we chat with Margo Fowkes,
founder of Salt Water - Find Your Safe Harbor (www.findyourharbor.com). Salt Water is for those who have lost someone they can't live without - a child, a sibling, a spouse, a parent, a close friend - and the people who love them. Salt Water provides a safe harbor where you can find comfort, support and tools to survive your loss and rebuild your life.
November 2020
Preparing for the Holidays
Join Executive Director Marilyn Koenig, Toni Groth and Susan Reynolds discussing how you can prepare for the holidays.
October 2020
September 2020
September 2020
Kathleen Snyder, MSW
Kathleen is the California Representative of Livingworks Education, USA as well as a consultant and trainer with an emphasis on suicide prevention, intervention and postvention needs.
September 2020
September 2020
September 2020
Dr. Liseanne Wick
Dr. Wick is Director of Suicide Prevention at WellSpace Health, a nationally accredited Suicide Prevention program. Dr. Wick started as a crisis line volunteer two years after the loss of her oldest brother to suicide, and advanced in her career and studies over her tenure at the crisis center, currently serving as Director.
July 2020
September 2020
July 2020
Franklin Cook, MA, CPC
Franklin has been a peer grief helper since 1999. He also co-led the Survivors of Suicide Loss Task Force of the National Action Alliance for Suicide Prevention, which in 2015 published national guidelines for suicide grief support. Franklin supports the practice of peer grief help in memory of his father, Joseph, who died by suicide in 1978.
June 2020
April 2020
July 2020
Barbara Rubel, MA, BCETS, DAAETS
Barbara is a professional speaker and trainer for corporations, conferences, universities, and government agencies. Three weeks prior to Barbara giving birth to triplets, her father died by suicide. Barbara's story was featured in the Emmy award winning documentary, "Fatal Mistakes, Families Shattered by Suicide."
April 2020
April 2020
April 2020
Brandy Lidbeck
Brady is the author of "The Gift of Second." She is a licensed marriage and family therapist, as well as a two-time survivor of suicide loss.
She is the founder of www.thegiftofsecond.com, a website created for suicide loss survivors.
March 2020
April 2020
April 2020
Kelly Holmstrom
Board President of Friends for Survival. Kelly shares her life now as an "only" parent to her two children.
Feb 2020
Feb 2020
Feb 2020
Marilyn Koenig
Friends for Survival Board Member Susan Reynolds will be interviewing Exec Director Marilyn Koenig.
Jan 2020
Feb 2020
Feb 2020
Ronnie Walker
Friends for Survival Exec Director Marilyn Koenig (on the right) interviews Ronnie Walker, founder and Exec Director of Alliance of Hope.