Death by Suicide
Grief Painter™: Katherine
Faciliator: Faith Harrison
Katherine and her fiance worked for the VA on the suicide prevention hotline. When her fiance, an 8 year air force veteran died by suicide, she was left shattered. She came to paint her unrelenting sorrow.
Faciliator: Faith Harrison
Katherine and her fiance worked for the VA on the suicide prevention hotline. When her fiance, an 8 year air force veteran died by suicide, she was left shattered. She came to paint her unrelenting sorrow.
Katherine's Words:
"I lost the love of my life 4 weeks ago to suicide. He had been struggling for many months and I lived those months in terror, fear, helplessness, confusion and love. I wanted to save him and was left completely abandoned to pick up the pieces of "what was" and "what will be". I travelled from New York to Wimberly, Texas to sit in my grief, feel the pain, but in a place of great safety.
It was amazingly powerful to try to put colors and put words to the pain inside my body. It's hard to identify so soon. I dove into the pain, into Shane's favorite colors and found myself making the infinity sign or the number 8, the number of Shane's favorite football player. I let my mind go and just did. Amazing things were showing up in my painting that I never anticipated. It proved to me our spirits so deeply connected, which was something I was questioning over and over again after his death.
I honor this process and the growth that takes place.
It was amazingly powerful to try to put colors and put words to the pain inside my body. It's hard to identify so soon. I dove into the pain, into Shane's favorite colors and found myself making the infinity sign or the number 8, the number of Shane's favorite football player. I let my mind go and just did. Amazing things were showing up in my painting that I never anticipated. It proved to me our spirits so deeply connected, which was something I was questioning over and over again after his death.
I honor this process and the growth that takes place.
