ABSTRACT
Healing from the Loss of a Loved One to Suicide is a personal journey to creatively process emotions and memories associated with losing my brother in 2012. This auto-ethnography is a patchwork that flows from present to past events in unforeseeable directions. The process of writing transported me back to the moment. I found out about my brother’s death up to present day. It engages the topics of depression, guilt, blame and trauma that survivor’s feel and offers an approach to finding inner peace.
Additional information
Notes on contributors
Paula Renzi-Callaghan
Paula Renzi-Callaghan is an actress, educator, student, and scholar. She holds a Master of Fine Arts degree in Theatre and a Master of Arts degree in French. Currently, she is a doctoral student of French literature at The University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, where she also teaches beginner level French. She resides in Montevallo, Alabama, with her husband of 27 years, David, and their daughter, Quinn.