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 | 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...
