Thank You Heartbreak

Clinical and transpersonal psychologist, Dr. Sarah Neustader is the author of the newly released memoir, Love You Like the Sky: Surviving the Suicide of a Beloved. Joining Chelsea 13 minutes in, Sarah talks about navigating grief when you didn’t ask for it, let alone choose suicide yourself, and how she kept the conversation going with her boyfriend when he was now only in the spiritual realm. Ten years later, and no longer at the mercy of her boyfriend’s death, Sarah reflects on the many ways his suicide impacted not only her life but her will to live and credits his death and the blinding, debilitating trauma that is experienced by those left behind for helping her transcend her own suicidal ideations experienced both in her youth and in the wake of his passing. Gems to look out for:+ the hard existential dilemma of wanting to die but knowing you can’t—won’t—do it+ the spiritual side of suicide + dealing with the reality of a person’s suicide when you didn’t see it coming+ the world only gives us what we al