by Chrisy Slate | Dec 31, 2021 | Grief, Hope
New Year’s Resolutions aren’t really my thing and I’ve picked a Word of the Year before but didn’t end up seeing it through. Throughout 2020 I felt very off balance, as I’m sure much of the human race did as well. Grief, trauma, the pandemic, moving to a new...
by Chrisy Slate | Nov 20, 2021 | Grief, Hope, Marriage, Suicide Prevention
The Truth About Marriage After Child Loss It is not debated that the hardest thing a couple can go through is the death of a child. You’re never prepared to bury your child after any manner of death, but child death by suicide is more difficult and complex to...
by Chrisy Slate | Oct 3, 2021 | Grief, Hope, Surviving a suicide loss
Rest On Sunday May 23, 2021, I was at a bereaved parent’s retreat in Franklin, Tennessee and seated in a circle with with 14 other married couples who have experienced the death of a child. In my hands I held a handout titled “Worship & The Word” that...
by Chrisy Slate | Sep 12, 2021 | Suicide Prevention
If you are new to my Blog, please click here to read about my son Caleb: http://www.ajourneyforcaleb.org/caleb You Don’t Want To Be Me I’m writing to you from the deepest, darkest pit a human could ever be in. The pit of despair, devastation and...
by Chrisy Slate | Dec 31, 2020 | Grief, Hope
2020 will be the first calendar year that I will have lived without my firstborn child and only son, Caleb, who died unexpectedly on August 12, 2019. He didn’t get to graduate with the Class of 2020, He didn’t get to vote for the first time and we...
