Survive Your Child's Suicide: How to Move through Grief to Healing

by Peggy Green

“Green’s prose is comforting and conversational, treating this complex subject with empathy.”
--Clarion Foreword Review

Child A Mother’s Worst Nightmare
However, you can experience peace, joy, and happiness again

Just ask Peggy Green …
Peggy has survived losing not just one child, but two, including her son by suicide. She knew she must use every tool possible to survive this tragedy. Starting with acceptance – a challenging but necessary first step – she courageously walked her grief journey.

Three Phases to Move through Grief to Healing
Now as a Grief Coach, Peggy teaches these tools in her proven coaching program to help you move through grief to healing. This wholistic step-by-step process is founded on restoring your physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual health.

You can live a fulfilling and productive life
If you are asking why this happened, what you could have done differently, or how you will live without your child, you are not alone. Rest assured, others have traveled this road before you – and survived. Moving through your loss requires a conscious decision to heal. You have a choice. Do it for yourself.

Start here. Start now.

“A must read for anyone suffering the suicide loss of a child. Peggy gives you the same tools and resources that are responsible for her successfully navigating the suicide of her son.”
—FRANK KING, The Mental Health Comedian and TEDx Coach

“…this book contains many suggestions that could help parents who have lost children through other means or those simply grieving the loss of a loved one.”
--BlueInk Review

262 pages, Kindle Edition

Published November 2, 2022

Reviews

[Michael Doane · Rating 5 out of 5]

Survive Your Child’s Suicide is a deeply compassionate, steadying guide written from lived experience rather than abstract theory. Peggy Green writes not as an observer of grief, but as a mother who has endured the unimaginable and chosen to remain present, purposeful, and honest in its aftermath.

What immediately distinguishes this book is its tone. Green’s prose is calm, conversational, and nonjudgmental. She does not rush the reader toward resolution or offer platitudes about “moving on.” Instead, she acknowledges the raw disorientation, guilt, anger, and existential rupture that follow the suicide of a child, meeting parents exactly where they are.

The book’s structure organized around three phases of healing provides a sense of grounding when life feels unrecognizable. Acceptance, though framed as necessary, is never presented as simple or linear. Green respects the reality that grief moves in cycles, not steps, and that healing does not mean forgetting or minimizing loss.

Drawing on her work as a grief coach, Green integrates physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual care into a holistic framework that feels practical rather than prescriptive. Her tools are offered as options, not obligations an important distinction for readers whose autonomy has already been shattered by trauma.

Perhaps the book’s greatest strength is its permission to choose life again without betrayal. Green makes space for joy, peace, and meaning to coexist with sorrow, reminding parents that survival itself is an act of courage. The message is not that pain disappears, but that it can be carried differently with support, intention, and self compassion.

Survive Your Child’s Suicide is not only a resource for bereaved parents, but a humane, empathetic companion for anyone navigating profound loss. It affirms that healing is possibl not because the loss was small, but because love remains.

[Peggy Adkins · Rating 4 out of 5]

adult child suicide-parent read

Definitely a great first read to be on your journey of grieving and healing.
To grieve is to focus on the past while healing is to focus on present and future.