The Leftover Pieces: Suicide Loss Conversations

Suicide loss changes everything. The Leftover Pieces® Podcast explores life after suicide through honest conversations with survivors, experts, and grieving parents learning to live forward after unimaginable loss. Parents, partners, siblings, and friends share what it means to keep living when the world has been forever changed.

Hosted by Melissa Bottorff-Arey, whose 21-year-old son Alex died by suicide in 2016, the show blends intimate conversations with survivors, healers, and mental health professionals with short solo reflections you can actually use. Together we explore child loss, trauma and nervous-system care, anniversaries and seasons, stigma, faith and meaning, legacy, and the everyday practices that help make life livable again.

At its heart, this podcast is about learning to live forward after loss. We never move on from the people we love, but we can learn to carry the grief differently. This road can feel incredibly lonely—but you are not alone here.

For supporters, educators, and professionals, these conversations also offer insight into the realities of suicide grief and what genuine, non-fixing support can look like.

If you’d like to share your story or expertise, you can request to be a guest through Melissa’s website.

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Content Note
This podcast speaks candidly about grief and suicide loss and may feel activating for some listeners. We avoid graphic descriptions and discussion of suicide methods. Please care for yourself as needed. Melissa is not a doctor or licensed therapist, and nothing shared here should be considered medical or mental-health advice.

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Episoder(331)

Grief Hangovers are Real; Are You an Intervention or Prevention Griever?

Today I am down the rabbit hole to discuss the concept of a grief hangover. Yep, it's a real thing ....at least I say it is. I did not coin the phrase but i also don't recall ever hearing it before, y...

2 Jul 202434min

“Movies, Shows & Books, Oh My; What to Watch ...Or Not “

Are you a late-night grief-insomniac like me? Do you need to escape, or maybe think deeply? I have it all! New today and a few more on the way...a long overdue episode about what I have watched or re...

29 Mai 202444min

Because Legacy Matters; The Little Tin Man & His Big Heart

NEW EPISODE DROP! Today is MOTHER’S DAY 2024. As a special Down the Rabbit Hole episode and to honor a piece of my own journey in motherhood, I am reading my chapter “The Little Tin Man and His Big He...

12 Mai 202434min

How to Begin Healing After Suicide Loss; Transform with Support & Tools at Casa Alternavida

Today I release a conversation with the founder & owner of Casa Alternavida which is on the beautiful, lush Caribbean Island of Puerto Rico - which now happens to also be where I call home as well! ...

7 Apr 202458min

Behind the Coffee Cup; A Sister's 'Anger to Love' Walks

REGISTER for Monthly SIBLING SUPPORT after Suicide loss HERE Today I release a conversation with a sister talk about her baby brother Teddy. At 43, she lost her only sibling to suicide. Our persona...

25 Mar 20241h 7min

Mindsets, Motivation & Monkeys" Pt 3; I'll Get You My Pretty...

Today is MONKEYS DAY, where I'm returning to the rabbit hole to discuss the third (& final) piece in my current series, "Mindset, Motivation & Monkeys." So now you have your mindset (or at least know ...

19 Mar 202426min

The Military, 1st Responders & Suicide; 2X Loss Survivor & Marine Widow Speaks Up

Today, I welcome Bobbi Smith. At 22, this brave young woman is actually a two-time loss survivor. She actually first lost her best friend AND then, a few years later, her husband to suicide, yet the h...

11 Mar 20241h 24min

Mindsets, Motivation & Monkeys" Pt 2; How DO you find a way?

NEW EPISODE DROP! In this episode (2 of a 3 part series) I go back down the rabbit hole to discuss the second piece in the series called “Mindset, Motivation & Monkeys” ...today is motivation day!I kn...

4 Mar 202421min