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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Contact with Spirit; Down the "Psychic" Rabbit Hole for Halloween

This episode release on HALLOWEEN 2021 - so, Happy Halloween! Now that we have had a whole week of Instagram Posts, a live pop ins .... HERE is the HALLOWEEN SPECIAL EDITION RABBIT HOLE. Why did I "d...

31 Okt 202119min

Fear and Grief after Suicide Loss; Where they Intersect

Today I dig into the topic of fear and grief. They are intertwined, so how appropriate is the tie into Halloween? This episode is coming out the week leading up to Halloween 2021. I am planning a whol...

24 Okt 202117min

Allowing Her Loss to "Count"; How Art Became Laura's Therapy

Laura lost her ex-boyfriend to suicide - does that "count"? Can she still grieve? Is that "OK"? Well, OF COURSE IT IS! But Laura and I talk about her unique perspective and how the past four years ha...

19 Okt 20211h 10min

To Watch or Not to Watch; Suicide as Subject Matter on Screen

We regularly find suicide as a subject matter on TV and in film these days. But since suicide is such a pervading theme in this life we now live, the question remains - to watch or not? Does the conte...

10 Okt 202122min

Grief Began Before Loss: Suzanne Howes' Story

Today I speak to a mom who lost her son to suicide just over a year ago. Suzanne lost her 17 year old son Samuel to suicide on 2nd September 2020. Samuel struggled with his mental health for 4 years ...

3 Okt 20211h 2min

What If It's All in Our Minds; The Path to Less Suffering

Today I dive DEEP into the rabbit hole and discuss perception vs reality and if they are one in the same. I talk about where I am in this grief journey and the evolution of my thoughts on what we have...

26 Sep 202120min

Sharon Ehler's; Grief Reiki Founder & Author

Today I share my conversation with Sharon Ehlers. She lost her best friend Joy and ex-fiancé John within a few years of each other, both to suicide. Sharon is the founder of Grief Reiki® - a multidime...

19 Sep 20211h 10min

Imogen's Mom; A Good Mourning Legacy

Today I talk to Imogen Carn who is a suicide loss survivor. "Im", as she goes by, is the co-host of the Good Mourning Podcast (with Sally "Sal" Douglas). Im & Sal believe that "together, let’s make ...

6 Sep 202154min