It's been two months now

[tatoojam]

My husband shot himself in front of me, a piece of him actually hit me fron the blast. It was a horrible thing to go through and I miss him so much. These last 2 months have been a very rough. I had to move out of our home and into an apartment, I couldn't stay in that house after what happened. I had to go back to work two days after the memorial service. I had to make sure my son finished school so he could graduate last month. I had to get new livingroom furiture, because the Aftermath, Inc. people had to dispose of it. There have been many "had to's" lately and I'm grateful. God has been with me the whole time. When I thought I couldn't do one more "had to", God was there holding my hand and telling me "Yes you can".

Jill, wife of Damon

[hotrod]

Dear Jill

I am so very sorry for your terrible loss.  It is important for you to connect with others who have experienced this same pain so that you can be supported in this difficult time.    

There is a message board dedicated to Suicide Survivors that Is very active  and helpful.  It can be reached by going to:  http://forum.forsuicidesurvivors.com

I was so very strengthened by your faith  Please keep reaching out  You are not alone

Betty

 

 

 

[tatoojam]

Thank you for your kind words. Everyday has it's ups and down. But with God's help I will be ok. I have been thinking about all the holidays and it will be very rough, all i keep thinking is "I'll be alone". I do have children and grandchildren, but it's not the same thing as having your husband with you. Thank you also for the link for the survivors of suicide, I have joined it, I will see how that goes.

Jill

[Kelly]

Dear Members,

We are excited to mention that we are moving to a more new and improved message boards on MONDAY MORNING AUGUST 9th! The boards will be done for a few hours while we are making the conversation. Remember we posted information about this move a month ago. For some of you this might seem a bit sudden,  but when we were reviewing the site we determined the current message board you are using is out of date and the company that designed it is no longer in existence. The good news is this new message board will have new features that have been requested in the past like more fields we can add to your profiles and a chat room up to 20 people at one time. If we find the chat room is bursting at the seams we will add additional room for extra people. All your old posts, private messages and such will be migrated to the new message board. You might have to put up your profile picture again but not sure. The new company will be doing the migration for us. Here is a short list of some of the new features on the board:

- Custom Profile Fields- Users can customize their profile pages by selecting a background color or background image, with tiling options.- Facebook and Twitter Integration- users can respond to multiple posts at once with "mini-quote"- Pinned discussion threads - like welcome to our board etc.- Announcements made across some boards or the entire message board- Search: Users can easily find all content generated by a particular member, by clicking the 'Find Content' button that appears on the main profile page, or in the Mini Profile Popup which can be accessed throughout the board. The results page allows content to be filtered by application, as well whether the member created it or merely participated in it. - Privacy: allows users to sign in anonymously, hiding them from the online users list. Users also have the option to disable personal conversations and user-to-user emails, as well as ignore other users if necessary.

The next exciting piece of news about the new message board is it will have a new domain name of www.grieving.com for search engine optimization purposes. It will still be apart of Beyond Indigo and can be found through www.beyondindigo.com. We will be redirecting your current URL's to this new domain name but we might miss a few. If that is the case simply go back to www.grieving.com or www.beyondindigo.com to find your message board thread. We will try to make the transition as seamless as possible. 

The bottom line is the new board will give us room to grow our community and more options to interact better with each other. 

If you have any questions please direct them to feedback@beyondindigo.com.

Kelly Baltzell, MA

CEO/President

Beyond Indigo Family