Laura Trujillo: ...grieving with loss after the suicide of a loved one

Nobody Told Me!

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4.2 • 671 Ratings

🗓️ 14 March 2023

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Every year, 47,000 people in the United States lose their lives to suicide. For each of those deaths, it’s estimated that 6 to 32 close family members and friends are forced to cope with the loss and to search for answers. Our guest on this episode, Laura Trujillo, knows what it’s like to be a grieving and confused loved one in the aftermath of suicide. She writes about it in her new book, "Stepping Back from the Ledge: A Daughter’s Search for Truth and Renewal". Her website is https://www.lauratrujillo.org/

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0:00.0	Welcome to Nobody Told Me. I'm Laura Owens, and I'm Jan Black. Every year, 47,000 people in the United States
0:17.3	lose their lives to suicide. And for each of those deaths, it's estimated that
0:21.7	six to 32 close family members and friends are forced to cope with the loss and to search for
0:27.6	answers. Our guest on this episode, Laura Trujillo, knows what it's like to be a grieving and
0:33.0	confused loved one in the aftermath of suicide. She writes about it in her new book,
0:38.5	Stepping Back from the Ledge, A Daughter's Search for Truth and Renewal. Laura, we thank you so
0:43.9	very much for joining us. Thank you so much. I'm really grateful to get to talk to both of you.
0:49.5	You are a longtime journalist. You're the managing editor for life and entertainment at USA Today.
0:55.8	It must have been very painful for you to write this book, even though you are a writer.
1:01.9	So tell us more about why you decided to do it. Yeah. I'm not sure I thought it all the way
1:09.0	through at the beginning, maybe.
1:13.7	I mean, I did.
1:18.1	But, you know, it is, it's really difficult to write about.
1:21.7	But part of me thought, you know, you have two options.
1:25.2	One is to write about it and hope that you can connect with people,
1:27.7	which I think as a journalist, you kind of spend your entire career believing in, for real. Like, if people tell their stories, you can create empathy
1:33.5	and connect people. And when it came time for my own story, I mean, part of me felt obligated
1:40.4	to tell it in some ways, because I do really believe that. But it also felt really important to me. And in part because I guess I know the, well, what can happen when you don't talk about depression or mental health issues or suicide. And one thing that my mom said in one of her notes, she wrote a couple notes to her family was that she said she was too
2:03.6	proud to seek help. And I don't know exactly what, you know, she meant by that, but obviously
2:10.2	that she didn't want to talk to people. She didn't want to tell people she wasn't okay.
2:14.6	And I guess I think that if you don't talk about it, that's kind of the
2:19.3	extreme risk that could happen. And so it felt important that I at least try to.
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