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The Leftover Pieces: Suicide Loss Conversations

The Leftover Pieces: Suicide Loss Conversations

著者： Melissa Bottorff-Arey
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Suicide loss changes everything. The Leftover Pieces® Podcast explores life after suicide through honest conversations with survivors, experts, and grieving parents learning to live forward after unimaginable loss. Parents, partners, siblings, and friends share what it means to keep living when the world has been forever changed.

Hosted by Melissa Bottorff-Arey, whose 21-year-old son Alex died by suicide in 2016, the show blends intimate conversations with survivors, healers, and mental health professionals with short solo reflections you can actually use. Together we explore child loss, trauma and nervous-system care, anniversaries and seasons, stigma, faith and meaning, legacy, and the everyday practices that help make life livable again.

At its heart, this podcast is about learning to live forward after loss. We never move on from the people we love, but we can learn to carry the grief differently. This road can feel incredibly lonely—but you are not alone here.

For supporters, educators, and professionals, these conversations also offer insight into the realities of suicide grief and what genuine, non-fixing support can look like.

If you’d like to share your story or expertise, you can request to be a guest through Melissa’s website.

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Content Note
This podcast speaks candidly about grief and suicide loss and may feel activating for some listeners. We avoid graphic descriptions and discussion of suicide methods. Please care for yourself as needed. Melissa is not a doctor or licensed therapist, and nothing shared here should be considered medical or mental-health advice.

© 2026 The Leftover Pieces: Suicide Loss Conversations 代替医療・補完医療 心理学 心理学・心の健康 社会科学 衛生・健康的な生活
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  • [New August 2025] START HERE; Meet Melissa, Intro Episode

    [New August 2025] START HERE; Meet Melissa, Intro Episode
    2020/11/17
    Click to Send a Text or Voicemail to MelissaThis is the definitive “START HERE” episode-- the trailer if you will. Welcome. Get THE Leftover Pieces APP & don't miss anything! CLICK HERE If you’re a new listener, absolutely begin here. If you’re not new—but haven’t listened to this “first” episode since before February 2025 or earlier—I’ve updated it again as of August 2025, and you just might learn something new. I hope you’ll give it another listen.Welcome to The Leftover Pieces: Suicide Loss Conversations podcast. My name is Melissa Bottorff-Arey, and I am both the creator and host of this show, which I launched in 2020 amid an unprecedented global pandemic that was both being shadowed by and working in tandem with an even more pervasive global crisis: suicide.Today, I want to take a moment to share my story with you—a story that transformed my life in an instant, and my response so far that has ultimately brought me here, to this space, talking to you. Knowing me a little is essential if you are to trust me enough to listen to me talk about possibly the worst thing you could ever be asked to carry in life. If you are to allow me into your sacred space of grief, you deserve to hear it.This podcast exists because having persistent, consistent, and meaningful conversations about suicide, mental health, stigma, trauma, and grief helps others feel seen and supported—and it is how we will bring about awareness and, ultimately, change.And because we need community. It is essential in this sacred work of grief.So, for today, this is where I’ll leave you. This episode shares who I am—and why I’m doing this. I’m so sorry you’re here, but I’m honored to hold space for you. Thank you for being here—it truly means so much.On this podcast, we will continue to explore the questions that haunt us, seek the courage to uncover the healing tools within us, and offer the comfort of a community we all need. Come along with me—because this is so very lonely, but we do not have to be alone. Together, let’s choose to find meaning and even happiness amid the leftover pieces before us.New in 2025: I now also release Daily Nuggets mini-episodes multiple times a year—offering short, soul-centered reflections for grief support you can carry in your pocket.💻 You can find me—and everything I offer—at theleftoverpieces.com: – My 1:1 grief coaching programs (Destination: Me™ & Soul Tides™) – The $9/month Lighthouse Community (for moms) – Retreats, books, and grief resources (for moms and all survivors)– The multi-volume Legacy Project (moms)– Grief playlists, podcast submission info, and more ways to connect (all)You can find me, the online support & growth groups I lead, the retreats I host, the books I have written & all ways to connect with me at:The Leftover Pieces Instagram And Grievers, I am always here. You can find me on Instagram at The Leftover PiecesSupport the show__________________________________________________________________________💜 The Leftover Pieces is support for life after suicide loss. Click links below🎙 Leave me a message: Share a question, your story, or your person’s name for a future episode → theleftoverpieces.com/voicemail 🔗 Stay connected: Join my email community for weekly support, resources, and honest conversations. 🛠 Start here: Explore website for suicide loss resources for early grief, family support, and next steps. 🤝 For moms: One-on-one grief coaching for mothers navigating life after child loss.📞 Need support right now? If you or someone you love is struggling, call or text 988 (U.S. & Canada), or text HOME to 741741.
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    21 分
  • Finding Support; Founding a Group

    Finding Support; Founding a Group
    2020/11/18

    Click to Send a Text or Voicemail to Melissa

    My conversation with Bonnie Swade founder of SASS-MoKan, a suicide awareness survivor support group in the Kansas City area is packed full of information on the role of a support group, a support system, in a grievers life. Bonnie lost her 31 year old son Brett to suicide on December 20, 2003. The following year, she and her husband Mickey founded their own group. They do very important work in the KC metro area but are a model and inspiration for groups everywhere. SASS (Suicide Awareness Survivor Support) believes the public must be educated about suicide. I COMPLETELY AGREE !!

    From her website:

    We sincerely feel that "Suicide is everyone's business." With this in mind, SASS has five steps that we’re taking to make sure that "Suicide is everyone’s business." Those steps are: education, public awareness. networking with healthcare agencies, uniting survivors and providing information to area support groups.

    Please check out SASS-MoKan


    If you or someone you know is struggling PLEASE reach out & talk to someone
    The National Suicide Lifeline is there for you

    IN a crisis you can also TEXT:
    TEXT the word "HOME" to 741741 in the USA
    in Canada TEXT 686868
    in the UK TEXT 85258

    And Grievers, I am always here. You can find me on Instagram at The Leftover Pieces

    Support the show

    __________________________________________________________________________

    💜 The Leftover Pieces is support for life after suicide loss. Click links below

    🎙 Leave me a message: Share a question, your story, or your person’s name for a future episode → theleftoverpieces.com/voicemail

    🔗 Stay connected: Join my email community for weekly support, resources, and honest conversations.

    🛠 Start here: Explore website for suicide loss resources for early grief, family support, and next steps.

    🤝 For moms: One-on-one grief coaching for mothers navigating life after child loss.

    📞 Need support right now? If you or someone you love is struggling, call or text 988 (U.S. & Canada), or text HOME to 741741.
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    47 分
  • FEAR; It's Here, What Now?

    FEAR; It's Here, What Now?
    2020/11/19

    Click to Send a Text or Voicemail to Melissa

    In this (first) Mini Solo "Down the Rabbit Hole" (DTRH) Episode I delve into the topic of Fear & Grief. I talk about how they overlap & interact as well as how I have (started) to deal with it in my (new) life alongside suicide loss … & grief!

    You can find & connect with me at

    The Leftover Pieces Instagram
    or
    The Leftover Pieces Podcast Webpage

    Life after suicide loss is nothing short of a wasteland of the leftover pieces of your shattered heart, of your former self. Join Melissa, a mother who lost her 21 year old son Alex to suicide, as she has real conversations with other loss survivors, awareness advocates & mental health experts looking to explore the questions we all seek the answers to. Come along as we delve into areas such a trauma, hope, stigma & shame, learning to live with grief (not get over it), filling your coping toolbox with useful tools and finding (& learning to love) your new self … & more.

    If you or someone you know is struggling PLEASE reach out & talk to someone
    The National Suicide Lifeline is there for you

    IN a crisis you can also TEXT--->
    TEXT the word "HOME" to 741741 in the USA
    in Canada TEXT 686868
    in the UK TEXT 85258

    And Grievers, I am always here. You can find me on Instagram at The Leftover Pieces

    Support the show

    __________________________________________________________________________

    💜 The Leftover Pieces is support for life after suicide loss. Click links below

    🎙 Leave me a message: Share a question, your story, or your person’s name for a future episode → theleftoverpieces.com/voicemail

    🔗 Stay connected: Join my email community for weekly support, resources, and honest conversations.

    🛠 Start here: Explore website for suicide loss resources for early grief, family support, and next steps.

    🤝 For moms: One-on-one grief coaching for mothers navigating life after child loss.

    📞 Need support right now? If you or someone you love is struggling, call or text 988 (U.S. & Canada), or text HOME to 741741.
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    10 分
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