This is Emily Thomas and you are listening to the Mom Struggling Well Podcast. Hey friends welcome back. Thank you so much for tuning in today.

Each week I endeavor to create for you a useful resource,

and I think today is going to be really special in that

it's hopefully going to be something that really you can use if you need it.

I hope you don't need it, but I'm talking to my new friend Brandy Liddbeck and she has a ministry called The Gift of Second and it is for

survivors of suicide. She lost her mom to suicide when she was 10 so she kind

of goes through what that was like, how the grief of suicide is different than other griefs, what it does to the people who were left behind.

She went on to become a licensed therapist, so she is able to talk about it in a clinical way,

but she still sees the need for people to know they're not alone.

So I just love her heart.

She's also really funny in a very understated way and the topic is

obviously very heavy but I wish you could have seen the video because she was really cracking me up with some of her facial expression.

So if I start laughing in a place that seems inappropriate,

just trust me that you're not seeing what I'm seeing.

I'm really drawn to and

thankful for and have a special place in my heart for people like Brandy who are

willing to charge into the hard places that no one wants to go because she sees that no one's there

and someone needs to be there for these people. So that is Brandy.

Hopefully like I said you don't need this resource but please tuck it away because

you literally never know when suicide is going to touch your life or the lives of people that you know.

I'm going to do a really awkward and hard gear shift right now though and thank this episode sponsor Jelly Tully. Jelly Tully is the only

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