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(330)

Talking with Two Stepdads; Leaning Into the Love AND the Loss

Today I talk frankly with two amazing Stepdads about the loss of their stepsons by suicide and everything surrounding that loss. We often hear it said that the world 'forgets' about siblings after los...

26 Jun 20231h 17min

Is "Suicide Prevention" the Right Messaging; What ARE the Alternatives?

Today I go "down the rabbit hole" to discuss a topic many of us suicide loss survivors discuss often -- Suicide Prevention -- and what DOES it mean? It sure comes off as shameful more than helpful a l...

18 Jun 202326min

A Dads Roundtable Discussion; Three Dads talk Grief, Loss & Feelings

Today we have the next installment of the roundtable series that I am doing this season. Today i share a unique conversation with three dads who all lost their sons to suicide. You will meet John Twom...

11 Jun 20231h 8min

What to Watch (or Not); When Grief Insomnia Hits

We regularly find suicide as a subject matter on TV and in film these days...or at least more than we used to.... but being surprised by the plot or content is NOT always good. I like to try and give ...

27 Mai 202338min

Sibling Roundtable Talk; Cara, Sienna & Parker Talk Suicide Loss of Their Siblings

Today I take on the topic of sibling loss by suicide with 3 younger (now older?) siblings - Cara lost her big sister Leah in 2018; Sienna lost her big brother Macoy in 2019 and Parker lost his big bro...

15 Mai 20232h 1min

The Legacy Project; Listen to Moms Talk about Remembering Their Kids

This is a very special episode...no apologies for saying that. It IS a special episode. Today, my conversation is with four of the five moms that just completed the 13 week Legacy Writing Project th...

16 Apr 20231h 23min

How To Avoid a Psychic Scam or Medium Scam; Two Inches Off the Ground Podcast

Today I am redirecting you to an amazing episode of my friend J India's podcast "Two Inches Off the Ground" The title of the episode is How To Avoid a Psychic Scam or Medium Scam ( AND this week sh...

3 Apr 20239min

Let's Go Down the Rabbit Hole; Ask Melissa Suicide Loss Q & A Session

Ask me a question about suicide loss, the podcast, my support communities, my kids ...I am an open book. Get it answered from the Rabbit Hole in today's Q & A Segment. I will only read your first nam...

26 Feb 202327min