Hi, welcome to life, death, and the Space Between podcast. I'm your host, Dr. Amy Robbins, and I'm a psychologist and medium.

And here we explore life, death, consciousness, and what it all means. Today on the show, I have

Anne Moss Rogers. Anne is the author of the book,

Diary of a Broken Mind, and is an emotionally naked motivational speaker who helps people foster

a culture of connection to prevent suicide and find life after loss.

Despite her family's best efforts,

Anne Moss's 20-year-old son Charles died by suicide June 5, 2015,

after many years of struggling with anxiety, depression, and ultimately addiction.

Anne Moss started a blog Emotionallynaked.com and chronicled her family's tragedy in a newspaper article that went viral. She has been featured in the New York Times

and was the first suicide lost survivor ever invited to speak at the National Institute of Mental Health.

She lives in Richmond, Virginia with her husband Randy.

Her surviving son Richard is a filmmaker living his dream in L.A.

Welcome, Anne to the program.

Thank you, and I have to say that my first name is actually Anne Moss. It's a double name. It's a southern name.

Okay. And Moss. I apologize about that.

No, no. I have to tell everybody that unless they were born in North Carolina.

Well, I certainly was not. I'm a Midwestern girl. So, Anne Moss. Yes, that's it.

So first, let's start. I love the name of your blog. Why did you come up with emotionally naked?

Well, I had just lost my son to suicide and I was, well, you know, it was about nine months later.

And I was running and I thought, I need to start a blog because I had been writing on Facebook.

And what I found is I couldn't find those posts when I wanted, you know,

somebody would ask a question and I'd want to send a link to them.

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