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Category: Suicide Grief

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Even in Our Darkness

  • by Bruce Rickard
  • Posted on October 29, 2025

‘We all have our times of darkness when our circumstances are difficult, with no idea…

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The Perils of War

  • by Bruce Rickard
  • Posted on July 28, 2025

What it takes to survive: Writers of historical fiction engage in prolonged and rigorous research…

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Navigating the Sudden Death of Someone You Love

  • by Bruce Rickard
  • Posted on July 1, 2025July 1, 2025

On Memorial Day, 2019, the American holiday that falls on the last Monday in May…

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The Benefits of Book Therapy

  • by Bruce Rickard
  • Posted on February 28, 2025

Bibliotherapy is a therapeutic practice that uses books to nurture personal growth and improve mental…

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Walking Matters

  • by Bruce Rickard
  • Posted on May 23, 2024May 24, 2024

There is joy for a parent in seeing a child take their first steps. The…

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The Unfinished Life

  • by Bruce Rickard
  • Posted on April 30, 2024May 2, 2024

We recently visited ‘The Wall’ in the central highlands of Tasmania. The location of The…

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The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry – The Movie

  • by Bruce Rickard
  • Posted on August 10, 2023August 14, 2023

‘Pilgrimage is an outward sign of the inner journey… the search for meaning, inspiration, healing,…

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Rituals of Grief

  • by Bruce Rickard
  • Posted on July 12, 2023

In her book A Hole in the World, author, Amanda Held Opelt writes about the…

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The Angel of the North

  • by Bruce Rickard
  • Posted on May 19, 2023May 19, 2023

When the Angel of the North, an ambitious piece of public art, was completed in…

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Eight Explosive Truth Bombs

  • by Bruce Rickard
  • Posted on March 16, 2023March 18, 2023

From the pen of Cormac McCarthy The Passenger, published in October 2022, by award winning…

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Bruce Rickard

Bruce Rickard

Reflections on Suicide and Staying Alive: My son's suicide changed everything. I felt an obligation to understand why anyone would want to end their life. My regular blog posts explore the causes and prevalence of suicide and what is needed to sustain a healthy mind and a hope-filled future.

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