Thread by @TAPSorg

“TAPS Suicide Postvention Model helps survivors to set a healthy foundation for integrating grief into your life.” - @KimRuocco

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@KimRuocco "Grief is about love. It's not an attack on how they died. It's about how they lived." -@KimRuocco

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@KimRuocco TAPS Suicide Postvention focuses on 3 tasks:

1. Find a grief rhythm

2. Shift focus to how they lived

3. Develop a new relationship with your loved one.

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@KimRuocco "Survivors in post-traumatic growth can receive Gifts of Grief. More meaningful connections post-loss than ever before." - @KimRuocco

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@KimRuocco "Remember the dash - focusing on the time between the birth and the death of our loved ones. How they lived." - Dr. Frank Campbell

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“The dash is about how they lived not about how they died. No one should be defined about how they died but about how they lived. #RememberTheDash.” - Dr. Frank Campbell #NMSSS19

“We are more than a date of birth and a date of death.” - Dr. Frank Campbell #NMSSS19 #RememberTheDash

“For every 1 death by suicide - 135 people are directly affected.” - Dr. @DrJAshton #NMSSS19

“I didn’t want to go through life without my children’s father, we can’t constantly look back - but we have to live in the moment and we have to look forward.” - @DrJAshton #NMSSS19

“If you want to heal, you have to feel.” -@DrJAshton

“Come together to find comfort and try to find the positives.” -@DrJAshton #NMSSS19