What If Grief Begins Before Goodbye? Suicide Loss, Mental Illness & Healing with Suzanne Sherman
Notes from the Edge · Gamut Podcast Network
Oct 16, 2026 · 45 min
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What happens when you begin grieving someone you love long before they’re gone?
In this deeply personal episode of Notes From the Edge , host Lisa Lacy sits down with Suzanne Sherman, author, memoir editor, and writing coach, to explore childhood trauma, schizophrenia, suicide loss, complicated grief, and the healing power of storytelling.
Suzanne was just four years old when her mother developed schizophrenia. At eighteen, she lost her mother to suicide. Decades later, she found the courage to tell their story in her memoir, Living in the Long Shadow: Surviving a Legacy of Mental Illness…
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