April 10, 2023

Remember His Name, Honor His Memory with Trish Springsteen

36 minutes

Susan, your host, welcomes Trish Springsteen to today's episode. Trish is a Creative Marketing Consultant, a multi-national award-winning mentor, speaker, award-winning international bestselling author, and WebTV host, specializing in creative solutions to Get Known and Be Seen, making it easy for your clients to find you.

Founder of the Purple Unicorn® Marketing Academy, Trish works with people to find the gold nuggets in your business to promote and market themselves. The best person to speak about your business is YOU!

Trish believes in her clients until they believe in themselves. From her personal journey, Trish knows how powerful confidence and self-belief can be. Trish is the author, co-author, and contributing author of 19 books, including Forever Changed By Suicide.

Key Takeaways:

Trish shares her grief story which began on a particular day that started as a normal day and turned into tragedy when she lost her son, Craig, to suicide.
Trish talks about the healing power of crying and the consequences of restraining crying.
There are no accurate timelines.
Repressing your emotions is causing your dis-ease.
For people to remember her son's name was very important to Trish, she wanted his memory to stay alive.
Grandparents not only lost their grandson by suicide but were also left to support their daughter in a situation that totally exceeded them.
Trish lost Craig and, with him, the possibility of having grandchildren.
Trish shares the tradition she started on Christmas, which involves setting up a small memory tree instead of a Christmas tree, where she hangs stars with the names of those she has lost, honoring their memories.
Trish talks about her book, Forever Changed by Suicide, a compilation of testimonies of people sharing their memories and grief processes.
Trish acknowledges that there is a pain that lives with her and will never leave her side.
"I feel for you" sometimes are the only right words you can tell someone who has lost someone to suicide.
Everybody's journey is different, keep that in mind, it is OK to feel how you feel; it is OK to grieve.

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April 10, 2023

Remember His Name, Honor His Memory with Trish Springsteen

36 minutes

Key Takeaways:

Trish shares her grief story which began on a particular day that started as a normal day and turned into tragedy when she lost her son, Craig, to suicide.
Trish talks about the healing power of crying and the consequences of restraining crying.
There are no accurate timelines.
Repressing your emotions is causing your dis-ease.
For people to remember her son's name was very important to Trish, she wanted his memory to stay alive.
Grandparents not only lost their grandson by suicide but were also left to support their daughter in a situation that totally exceeded them.
Trish lost Craig and, with him, the possibility of having grandchildren.
Trish shares the tradition she started on Christmas, which involves setting up a small memory tree instead of a Christmas tree, where she hangs stars with the names of those she has lost, honoring their memories.
Trish talks about her book, Forever Changed by Suicide, a compilation of testimonies of people sharing their memories and grief processes.
Trish acknowledges that there is a pain that lives with her and will never leave her side.
"I feel for you" sometimes are the only right words you can tell someone who has lost someone to suicide.
Everybody's journey is different, keep that in mind, it is OK to feel how you feel; it is OK to grieve.