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217. Navigating Suicide Loss: How One Mom Turned Losing Her Son into Purpose with Erin Blechman

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Life With Grief Podcast | Grief Support Podcast
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May 14, 2026
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Drop me a message or voice note! When grief becomes the very thing that leads you to help others heal, that's when loss truly starts to become a gain. In this episode, I'm sitting down with Erin Blechman—mom, certified grief educator, and suicide loss survivor—for a conversation that is raw, real, and so deeply needed. Erin shares the story of her son Max, a wildly creative, deeply sensitive, and brilliantly funny young man who lived with medication-resistant depression and epilepsy, and who...