104 episodes
Understand Suicide Paula Fontenelle
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4.7 • 53 Ratings
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Here we will create a safe community to fight the stigma surrounding suicide. I will interview specialists, survivors, and individuals who have a story to tell. We will cover a variety of themes: grief, warning signs, risk factors, contagion, youth, and most importantly, what can be done to prevent suicide.
To contact me, send a message to pfontenelletherapist@gmail.com
Visit my page: www.understandsuicide.com
Facebook Page: https://bit.ly/2MMLBWO
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Ep. 112 - How can a partner help with grief? | Michelle Collins
After a series of losses, including the death of her mother and her husband’s suicide, Michelle Collins combined the tools she had collected as a yoga therapist and wellness coach and studies in positive psychology and neuroscience to turn post-traumatic stress disorder into post-traumatic growth and resilience.
She is the author of two books: “Surviving Spousal or partner suicide loss: A Mindful Guide for Your Journey Through Grief” and “Supporting a Survivor of spouse of partner suicide loss: A Mindful Guide for Co-journeying Through Grief.”
In this interview, we focus on how a partner or spouse can help their loved one through suicide loss.
Find Michelle: https://inhabitjoy.com/
Are you looking for an online suicide loss support group? Join mine: https://t.ly/gYW-G
Find my book "Understanding Suicide: Living with loss, paths to prevention:”
https://amzn.to/3QYe0II
Enroll in my course "How to help suicidal people."
https://bit.ly/3klNZ7n
Subscribe to my YouTube channel:
https://rb.gy/0emdk
Visit my page www.understandsuicide.com
If you need to talk, contact the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline:
https://suicidepreventionlifeline.org
Phone: 988
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Need an online suicide loss support group?
Are you looking for an online Suicide loss support group?
We all know how heartbreaking this kind of loss is, and how we tend to isolate ourselves because we believe nobody will either listen to us or understand what we're going through.
That’s when a support group can be a source of comfort, familiarity, and compassion, no matter where you are in your grief journey. And you might just find some peace in knowing you're not alone.
So why not give it a try? You never know how much it could help until you take that first step. The one thing I can guarantee you is that I will offer a warm, safe, and nurturing space, as provided here on my podcast.
The group meets every second Tuesday of the month, on Zoom. Join the March meeting, February is full. We have a limit of 12 participants.
REGISTER HERE: https://t.ly/7gUed
Paula
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Ep. 111 - He lost his mother at age seven | Dr. Richard Brockman
Richard Brockman is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Columbia University, College of Physicians and Surgeons, and Attending Clinical Psychiatrist at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center. When he was seven years old he found his mother’s body after she died of suicide. This traumatizing experience re-shaped the narrative of his life.
In his book, "Life After Death: Surviving Suicide,” Dr. Brockman he shares the memories of his childhood, the many gaps he has in those memories, and how the man survived while the boy tried to make sense of it all.
Find Dr. Brockman: https://www.cugmhp.org/faculty/richard-brockman-md/
Buy his book: https://amzn.to/3SbxJqk
Are you looking for a suicide loss support group? Join mine, it's online. See details here: https://t.ly/qcCC9
Find my book "Understanding Suicide: Living with loss, paths to prevention:”
https://amzn.to/3QYe0II
Enroll in my course "How to help suicidal people."
https://bit.ly/3klNZ7n
Subscribe to my YouTube channel:
https://rb.gy/0emdk
Visit my page www.understandsuicide.com
If you need to talk, contact the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline:
https://suicidepreventionlifeline.org
Phone: 988
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Ep. 110 - Two sisters grieving their mother's suicide | Kristyna and Veronika
Kristyna and Veronika Delmar are from the Czech Republic and they lost their mother to suicide a little over a year ago. In this interview, they share with us the different paths they took to live through their grief.
Kristyna tried to “learn" everything she could about the topic by reading books and trying to get in touch with people who were going through the same kind of loss. Veronika was the one who found their mother, so this shock permeated her pain and it still does. She still tries to suppress her emotions and acknowledges that anger is still taking center stage.
This moving interview touches on a universal theme when it comes to suicide: how do families deal with each other’s grief journeys? Is it possible to respect and support each other through suicide loss? Their candid story shows us that nothing is more healing than love, compassion, and the understanding that when suicide happens, we are inherently bound by a shared loss.
Are you looking for an online suicide loss support group? Join mine. See details here: https://t.ly/qcCC9
Find my book "Understanding Suicide: Living with loss, paths to prevention:”
https://amzn.to/3QYe0II
Enroll in my course "How to help suicidal people."
https://bit.ly/3klNZ7n
Subscribe to my YouTube channel:
https://rb.gy/0emdk
Visit my page www.understandsuicide.com
If you need to talk, contact the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline:
https://suicidepreventionlifeline.org
Phone: 988
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Accepting new clients
From time to time, some of my listeners contacted me for therapy but in the past, I have not been able to accept new clients due to a lengthy waiting list. That has recently changed because I just opened my own practice, so I am taking new patients and have a few available spots.
If you are searching for a therapist and you live in Oregon, in the US, contact me. I give a free 15-minute consultation so that we can see if we are a good fit.
I'm not taking insurance at the moment.
My phone number: 971 2361388
Email: paula@flourishingmindscorp.com
Have a great day.
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Ep. 109 - Spirituality as a path to healing | Suzanne Anderson
Suzanne Anderson lost her husband David to suicide and with it, her life as she knew it. As it happens in many cases, after his death, she found out secrets he kept from her, so she had to rebuild not only her life but her internal experience of what they had shared and built together.
In this interview, she shares her path and how her spiritual beliefs helped her through it. Suzanne is the author of the book “You Make Your Path By Walking”, which accompanies readers on their own journeys through the barren landscape of trauma and grief, offering comfort, guidance, and inspiration to make meaning out of loss. Whether you are going through a personal dark night or struggling with these uncertain and disruptive global times, this book offers a proven pathway to allow the breaking down to be the breaking open into a whole new way of living, loving, and leading.
Drawing from her years of exploration into the development of human potential and the personal, shattering journey of loss, Suzanne guides you to make your own path through the darkest of times—and to become a light in the world that others can look to in their own times of need.
Find her book:
https://mysterialwoman.com/you-make-your-path-by-walking/
Enroll for her next Resilience Circle:
https://mysterialwoman.com/equinox-resilience-circle/
Contact Suzanne Anderson:
https://mysterialwoman.com/
Are you looking for an online suicide loss support group? Join mine. See details here: https://t.ly/qcCC9
Find my book "Understanding Suicide: Living with loss, paths to prevention:”
https://amzn.to/3QYe0II
Enroll in my course "How to help suicidal people."
https://bit.ly/3klNZ7n
Subscribe to my YouTube channel:
https://rb.gy/0emdk
Visit my page www.understandsuicide.com
If you need to talk, contact the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline:
https://suicidepreventionlifeline.org
Phone: 988
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Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/paula-fontenelle/message
Customer Reviews
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Paula, thank you for sharing this podcast and these stories with the world. The tragedy of losing a loved one is so hard and painful. People need your message. We lost our son, Michael, to the disease of suicide on January 25th, 2021. He was 18, a wonderful young man, and even now this tragedy seems unreal. I am eternally grateful for my faith and the hope brings each day. We must do more to help remove the stigma of suicide and encourage a broader discussion for support of mental health. We love you Michael, your story isn’t over;
Thank you paula
This pod cast has helped me so much after losing my husband by suicide.
I appreciate the time you put into it and your knowledgeable and thoughtful conversations.
Really a blessing.
Paula talks about Paula, Guests cut off,
Paula successfully corrals damaged, vulnerable, intelligent and insightful Guests. But Paula is controlling, maneuvers her Guests around like a horse trainer. Paula frequently finishes her Guest’s sentences. Paula will cut her Guest off mid-sentence to change the subject. Paula frequently puts words in her guest’s mouths. And I really DO NOT LIKE IT when the Guest is describing their life experiences, and suddenly Paula interrupts to substitute Paula’s OWN life experiences! That actually triggers me, and I become ALMOST ANGRY. In fact, I say it’s wrong. Because I’ve already heard everything Paula has to say about Paula on Paula’s show. And anyway, I want to hear what the Guest has to say! Isn’t an episode supposed to be about the guest? What? Not really? The Show Formula is 60% Paula and 40% incomplete Fragments from the Guest? That’s weird. Oh, Wait! The Guest is talking! And Paula isn’t interrupting! Oh, man…wow…that’s really interesting…alarming…I never thought about that…how did you…I can’t… What? BOOM? Guest cut off mid-thought and abruptly dismissed? And They’re gone? Now Paula is talking about Paula again? But I wanted to hear…because they were…can’t you just..? Never mind. Forget it. They’re gone. “What? No Paula! I am not going to buy you another cup of coffee. Why? Because I’m now in an emotional state that’s a combination of devastated sorrow and simmering resentment. And I have had ideation, you know that, right? No! I won’t be a guest. No, I’m not giving you content which becomes your intellectual property. Forget it! No, I’m calling my therapist, and then writing a book instead.” Anyway, for the listener: insightful fragments spoken by Great Guests within a disturbingly controlled Show. To me it’s more about Paula than it is the Guests, whom I wish were allowed Simply Talk Freely.