Melissa Howard

Every suicide is preventable. After losing her younger brother to suicide, Melissa Howard felt compelled to create Stop Suicide. [stopsuicide.info] By providing helpful resources and articles on her website, she hopes to build a lifeline of information.

How to Create a Meaningful Digital Memory Book to Cherish Loved Ones

For adult children managing estates, grandparents, or long-distance family ties after illness, divorce, or loss, preserving family memories can feel urgent and strangely slippery. Photos scatter across phones, stories live in half-remembered conversations, and the small details that make a person unmistakably themselves can fade faster than expected. A digital memory book offers a steadier […]

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How to Manage Grief Anxiety and…

How to Manage Grief Anxiety and Find Hope After Losing a Loved One For grieving individuals facing the loss of a loved one, it can be unsettling when sorrow shows up as a racing mind, tight chest, irritability, or a blank, disconnected numbness. Grief-related anxiety and grief-related depression often create emotional challenges after loss that

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Navigating Grief and the Weight of Real Life

Grief is the emotional response to loss—most often the death of someone deeply loved—and it affects not just the heart, but daily life, decisions, and responsibilities. For people facing grief, the pain rarely arrives alone. It arrives with paperwork, phone calls, household tasks, financial choices, and long-term decisions that can feel impossible without the person

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How to Use Technology Mindfully to Support Healing After Loss

For people grieving a partner, parent, child, or close friend, phones and feeds can become a refuge that quietly turns into technology overuse and isolation. In bereavement, constant scrolling can blur feelings, deepen an emotional disconnect from technology, and leave the body and spirit numb when what’s needed is honest contact with the loss. That

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Four Things to Know About Emotional Wellness and Suicide Prevention

by Melissa Howard  Editor’s note: this piece is written by the founder of Stop Suicide (www.stopsuicide.info). Studies have shown that bereavement is associated with impaired mental health, increases in adverse health behaviors, and heightened risk of suicidal ideation, attempts, and death by suicide. For example, parental death in childhood is associated with an increased long-term risk

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