Alexandra Wyman: What Can You Do When Someone You Love Chooses Death?
- Alexandra Wyman: What Can You Do When Someone You Love Chooses Death? Irene Weinberg 59:48
Alexandra Wyman is a pediatric- occupational therapist, a mom, a widow, an author, a podcaster, a speaker, and a Grief guide whose husband Shawn died of suicide. The aftermath of Shawn’s death, complicated by the grief of others and expectations of Alexandra’s own grief process, prompted her to write her important new book titled The Suicide Club: What To Do When Your Loved One Chooses Death. Writing this book that helps others work through their own grief process was helpful to Alexandra in her healing process, and it also offered her the opportunity to reflect on the healing she needed to do from her childhood, including the limiting core beliefs that were impacting her life as an adult. As she started to unravel those beliefs and heal emotionally from her past experiences, Alexandra began taking small, baby steps forward, and now, she is actively helping others start to take their own baby steps towards healing and finding joy again. Tune in to hear Irene and Alexandra talk about Alexandra’s journey of mourning and healing after losing Shawn, the need to change the rhetoric around suicide, and much more, for what is a very moving and insights filled interview with a highly authentic, inspiring woman!
IN THIS EPISODE, YOU’LL HEAR ABOUT THINGS LIKE:
- The tragic day Shawn died of suicide.
- What neuroscience-based research says about the important messaging we get from birth to age seven.
- What it is like to attend a suicide support group.
- How consulting with a medium helped Alexandra to connect with Shawn.
- We cannot heal present grief until we heal past grief.
SOME QUESTIONS IRENE ASKS ALEXANDRA:
- What are Sean’s childhood experiences that led to his limiting core beliefs?
- How was the aftermath of Shawn’s death made more complicated by the grief of others?
- Why is unsavory behavior not unusual when a death occurs?
- What did you learn about the importance of boundaries during your journey of mourning and healing?
- What is the difference between grieving in private or in public?
- What can we do when a loved one chooses death?
Get your copy of: The Suicide Club: What to Do When Someone You Loves Chooses Death
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