Show Notes
When Lynn Keane lost her 23-year-old son Daniel to suicide, her life changed forever. But her story is not only about grief. It's about what happens after the unimaginable and how we find a way to keep living.
Lynn was one of the earliest contributors to Unsinkable, sharing her story as part of a community built around the healing power of personal storytelling. In this deeply moving conversation with Silken Laumann, she reflects on how writing became part of her own healing, ultimately leading to her book Give Sorrow Words. Together, they explore the questions that can follow suicide, the many forms grief takes, and how movement, storytelling and purpose helped Lynn move forward.
This is a conversation about devastating loss, but also about hope, meaning and learning to savour the life that remains.
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