support. hope. healing. awareness
A Voice for Survivors: Overcoming Isolation and Providing Resources
I know too well the feeling of isolation, the struggle to find information, the wish to be understood, the fight to organize and prioritize tasks while searching for crumbs of hope.
I hope to throw a lifesaver to other homicide and suicide survivors and spare others from experiencing that abyss.
GUEST PRESENTOR/SPEAKER/PODCAST GUEST
Topics I Can Speak On
- Dispelling myths about the aftermath of homicide
- What friends can do to help in the aftermath of homicide and suicide
- The importance of using the American Biorecovery Association for crime scene cleanup
- The emerging phenomena of sixth-sense experiences in grievers of violent death
- Why Post Traumatic Stress Disorder is better thought of as Post Traumatic Stress Injury
- The importance of group support following trauma
- How and why grief changes over time
- The real possibility of Post Traumatic Growth
- Recommendations for law enforcement in working with homicide survivors
- Recommendations for attorneys in working with homicide survivors
- Recommendations for physicians in working with homicide survivors
- Rethinking the true crime genre from the perspective of homicide survivors
- The unexpected costs of violent death
- Different kinds of grief and why it matters
- Why graduate programs need courses on the aftermath of violent death
- The price society pays for untreated trauma
- Common changes in assumptions and values following traumatic death
- The special case of wrongful convictions from the viewpoint of victim families
- Strategies to address the hardship of grief from intentional death
- What I have learned from my podcast guests about the aftermath of violent death
