by donnaheck | Nov 3, 2025 | child loss, grief, Grief, suicide awareness, suicide prevention
Here is a story that may help you understand a bit more of the hidden depression and pain that Dani, the inspiration behind 33 Forever endured. These are pictures of the love of Dani’s life. I can hear Dani tell me, “Mom, please remember Greg today. It’s his special...
by donnaheck | Sep 10, 2025 | child loss, child loss, Grief, grief, suicide awareness, suicide prevention, suicide prevention month
Screenshot Perhaps because it’s Suicide Awareness Month – perhaps because September 10, today, is World Suicide Awareness Day or perhaps because the memory of the pain and struggles we have gone through as a family over the years has been revived but today...
by donnaheck | Jun 3, 2025 | child loss, grief, Love, suicide prevention
“I know, let’s have a big family,” I thought as we planned for a fourth child. With that in mind I have a vivid memory of driving Dani, age 9, to swim practice, along with that fourth child tucked in her car seat distracting us all. Dani’s friend, who is doing her...
by donnaheck | Apr 16, 2025 | child loss, child loss, Grief, grief, suicide awareness, suicide prevention
The hits keep coming. Not just for me, but for all of us. It seems more often than not I dread watching the news or opening my social media account. There inevitably will be a story of someone, a celebrity perhaps, or a friend of a friend, who suddenly lost...
by donnaheck | Jan 16, 2025 | child loss, grief
My husband and I have been faced with immense sadness this week as two of our dearest and closest friends are on day 7 of this tragic unexpected journey after losing their beautiful 42 year old daughter, (sister, mom, wife, friend) to a devastating automobile...
by donnaheck | Dec 11, 2024 | child loss, grief, Grief, suicide awareness, suicide prevention
Christmas Day 2018 December 25, 2018 was the last Christmas shared with our entire family unit. We, of course, didn’t know it at the time. But looking back, perhaps there were hints of Dani’s depression coming back. We had many fantastic and joyful moments over the...
by donnaheck | Jun 15, 2024 | Uncategorized
Dani summer swim team 1994 She may have had a crush on him from the very first time he took her home from practice. She would waltz in the door all bubbly and smiling, and, instead of telling me about her swim team achievements, she proceeded to share what fun the car...
by donnaheck | Feb 10, 2024 | child loss, child loss, grief, suicide awareness, suicide prevention, suicide prevention month
After hours of praying and pacing you’ve just experienced one of the BEST DAYS EVER-the joyful news of the birth of your beautiful and precious grandchild. You’re reeling with so much love and joy that this little one’s arrival has once again taken your breath away....
by donnaheck | Feb 2, 2024 | child loss, grief, suicide awareness, suicide prevention, suicide prevention month
Dani, 33 Forever May 1, 1985 – February 11, 2019 Dear Friend of a Bereaved Suicide Loss Survivor: On this day as I anticipate my daughters “wing day,” I wanted to share something I have learned on this new journey since losing Danielle nearly 5 years ago to the...
by donnaheck | Dec 4, 2023 | child loss, grief, suicide awareness, suicide prevention
I just finished a post for our nonprofit and the last line simply smacked me right in the face: SUNDAY NIGHT LIES. I’m sure many of you reading this understand what that means. You’re lying in bed trying to go to sleep and all of a sudden your brain starts telling you...
