This book helped me when I lost my daughter. Who died by suicide this past April 2024. She was only 19 years old. She suffered with depression for many years I saved her life so many times she tried so many ways and times to end her life this time i couldn’t save her . When I went to pick up her ashes the funeral director asked me if I wanted the clothes she took her life in. I said yes hoping and praying that she left a goodbye note in one of the pockets nope nothing. I’m left with memories pictures voicemails. No more new memories pictures are voicemails. This book helped me know that I’m not alone on how I felt and still feel about her not being here. How I’ve been thinking and feeling and that there are other parents that feel just like I do. This book has given me some kind of understanding to why I feel the way I have been feeling. I have highlighted parts within the chapters so that I can go back through and read them highlighted parts when I’m struggling and having difficult time coping with her loss. My daughter had her whole life ahead of her and she touched so many in her short time her she was loved and will be missed by so many. I hope any parent who has lost a child are knows someone who has lost a child will recommend this book to them. I started reading aftermath picking up the pieces after suicide. I’m ordering surviving the holidays without, broken walk , grief walk experiencing god after the loss of a loved one. Also got myself a grief counselor. But before I got one Gary Roe was my counselor let him be yours too. His book shattered surviving a lot of a child has been a book I have picked up and read again and again the first time I struggled to get through it. But it has been really helpful only advice I say is make sure you have a tissue box handy because your going to need it. I’m looking forward to reading his others books mentioned above. Gary Roe I say thank you for writing this book it has truly helped me in my grieving process.