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Title: My Son...My Son: A Guide to Healing After a Suicide in the Family by Iris Bolton, Curtis Mitchell ISBN: 0-9616326-0-7 Publisher: Bolton Pr Atlanta Pub. Date: December, 1983 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.78 (9 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Out of this came the "Gift"
Comment: After the 1977 suicide of her 20 year old musician son, Iris Bolton says, "to climb from that emotional abyss would force me to fight the hardest battle of my life." On top of that, she was faced with the stigma of a "failed parent", and, she felt like a "discredited counselor" as the director of a family therapy center. Suicide transmits a public ridicule and private humiliation, grief, guilt and anger.
Bolton eloquently shares her experience with brilliant usage of metaphors to describe the tortured process from grief to survival.
Again, this is HER story and we don't get to much information about the healing process of her other 3 sons and her husband.
But the premise of this story and guide revolves around "a gift" promised by a friend and psychiatrist who said, that there is a gift for her in her son's death, hard to accept now, but it is there if she is willing to search for it if she chooses.
What develops from her painful experience is the "gift"- the ability to truly help and guide others in similar situations. Her gift comes to play when she courageously assists a family whose 18-year old daughter commits suicide. Please read the talk she gave at the funeral in 1980. She offers a compassionate piece titled "Though We Meet as Strangers, By Our Love We Shall be Known"
Included is a memorable and inspirational poem she wrote about her son, the consequences of suicide and regaining spirit. From there, she has prominently established herself to give hope to others that they, too, can survive and recover.
Aside from Suicide Resources, what is especially important is a guide called "Beyond Survival" that simply lists steps to take. Only one who has healed and survived a tragedy can express this in words. And, crucial information is included called the "Do's and Don'ts." Not having gone through this experience, anyone and everyone giving comfort to those in need should examine this list! In our lifetime, we will encounter some form of comforting. This is an excellent book! Read it.....MzRizz
Rating: 5
Summary: Read this book!
Comment: Timeless, must read for anyone who has lost someone, particularly by suicide. This was put in my hands immediately after a loss, and it quite frankly saved my life. This is a simply written, non-clinical, "how to" survival book. I'm lucky enough to live in Atlanta, and Iris gladly met with me after I read her book. Phenominal woman, I attend her support groups faithfully.
I would recommend this book for all ages, as well.
Rating: 5
Summary: The best I have read so far!!!
Comment: Anyone who is in the throws of trying to live with the suicide of a loved one whether it be a child or not could only benefit from owning this book.Of the many,many books I have read on this subject in the year and a half after losing someone dear to me to suicide I can tell you that this book has touched on every stage and emotion and left me feeling that what I go through emtionally and how I go through it is fine.At the stage I am at right now, I realize some of the things in this book would have not been acceptable to me in the beginning but, having had lived through them now, it's reassuring to know I am ok God bless Iris Bolton.
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Title: No Time to Say Goodbye : Surviving The Suicide Of A Loved One by CARLA FINE ISBN: 0385485514 Publisher: Main Street Books Pub. Date: 09 November, 1999 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Healing After the Suicide of a Loved One by Ann Smolin ISBN: 0671796607 Publisher: Fireside Pub. Date: 22 June, 1993 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Suicide of a Child by Adina Wrobleski, Joy Johnson, Shari B. Enbody ISBN: 1561230219 Publisher: Centering Corporation Pub. Date: 01 December, 1993 List Price(USD): $3.25 |
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Title: An Empty Chair : Living in the Wake of a Sibling's Suicide by Sara Swan Miller ISBN: 0595095232 Publisher: Writers Club Press Pub. Date: 01 June, 2000 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Standing in the Shadow: Help and Encouragement for Suicide Survivors by June Cerza Kolf ISBN: 0801063957 Publisher: Baker Book House Pub. Date: February, 2002 List Price(USD): $9.99 |
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