We’re All Sailors on the Sea of Grief

Carrie Thompson
9 min readApr 23, 2020

2019 will go down in my personal history book as arguably the Worst Year of My Life. We lost our son Ben, age 23, to suicide, on July 27th. That night will forever live in infamy for me as the night when I lost a piece of myself, my heart, my inner light, and I was cast adrift on a seemingly endless Sea of Grief.

I lost the contentment and satisfaction of our shared interests, of late night…

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Carrie Thompson

A mother, a wife, a high school English teacher, and a suicide loss survivor on a quest for understanding and healing.