“Surviving Suicide” How I Reclaimed my Life by Reanne Goes
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I've just read this book “Surviving Suicide“ How I reclaimed my life, written by a friend of mine Reanne Goes. At only 60 pages long it's easily read in a couple of hours. For anyone left behind after a loved one has taken their own life this book is a must read. It offers inspiration and hope in helping deal with the aftermath. Well done Reanne, proud of you for sharing your story in order to help others.
Reanne has, unfortunately, experienced something few people, yet still too many, experience in their lifetime: a sibling who died by suicide. From the horror of such a tragedy, she provides a gripping narravative-one that ultimately echoes of profound love and optimism. She presents a beautiful story of her journey from heartbreak to flourishing, which is well-reflected in her mantra: If it's going to be it’s up to me. Reanne is an inspiration. I highly recommend “Surviving Suicide“ to everyone with an interest in the human condition.
I have just read your book for the first time Reanne and I seriously can’t thank you enough. There are many reasons for this. Your book (which I can tell is “very much, your heart & your words”) has given me insight into a man that I miss and it has shown me the strength that is needed to successfully move forward with life after a tragedy such as suicide.
I commend you on how you have navigated the road you travelled Reanne. I can only hope & wish that anyone who experiences something similar to what you & your family have can succeed in coming out the other side.
The troubles of depression & traumatic encounters is no stranger to my past & will more than likely always play a part in my life. Thank you for helping me understand it all a lot better!
We only met that one time and here you are back in my life and a part of your experience, complete with beautiful artwork sits on my bookshelf.
Adam’s life and your experience of loss and depression has informed my life and it will for others who read it. It will change some people’s perceptions around the emotional minefield of suicide and this is what makes your book so potent and so important.
I think that on the deepest of levels we all understand that we are much more than we are; that unconditional love transcends death; that tragic loss can lead to the wisest of gains; that in the pit of all adversity lies the smallest of jewels that can become luminous over time.
You have certainly demonstrated this in rising above the crushing despair you must have felt so eloquently pen something so persuasive, so brave, so meaningful and above all so full of love.
On an unforgettable cold morning ten years ago, Reanne Goes awoke to discover her beautiful, darling young brother, Adam had taken his life in her home. In an instant, this indescribable horror catapulted Reanne into the “hell realms”. In the prime of her life, a young, independent and successful woman was brutally stripped of all the things she thought she had for peace, comfort and happiness.
“Surviving Suicide” is a stunning and courageous book, whose pages are written with such raw, naked honesty and, at times, gut wrenching torment. The reader is taken on a road quite like no other, where concepts of loss, love, grief, guilt, forgiveness and loneliness (to name a few) are shaken, stirred, and thrown up in a cocktail of such frenzied proportions that, ultimately, one can only marvel at the human spirit’s capacity to heal, and achieve lasting salvation, hope and redemption. This remarkable book is the writer’s first hand account, and encounter, with suicide, now an urgent emerging epidemic in Australia and the world. Yet finally, this is an unforgettable and inspirational journey, a detailed and miraculous chronicle, and an affirmation that in all of us lies the “stuff” and the means to complete the path, from Tragic to Magic.
I would like to sincerely offer you my heartfelt thanks for the opportunity of experiencing your powerful and profound book.
I was especially moved by the raw and honest emotion in your narrative; something both confronting yet fundamental to the process of healing, acceptance and forgiveness.
There were many times I caught myself weeping over your words; they were, however, tears of joy, hope and the appreciation of the inherent goodness of the human spirit. I was also totally amazed by the synchronicities you experienced after your loss; yet another affirmation of the far more divine, hidden power supply constantly at work in our lives.
Whilst reading your book, I was also struck by the courage that is required to expose your soul so nakedly in all its pain and rawness. As you would have realised, words can be relatively cheap and clumsy when attempting to convey these experiences to the reader, but you seem, Reanne, to achieved the telling and sharing of unspeakable torment, and eventual path to awareness and enlightenment, with such powerful honesty and impact. Congratulations Reanne.