From Tragedy to Healing: Guiding You Through Loss After Murder-Suicide
Grief after a murder-suicide is uniquely complex and can be deeply traumatic. Survivors may experience a combination of intense grief, trauma, confusion, guilt, and stigma.
Do you…
- have difficulty processing what happened?
- ask yourself, *What could I have done to prevent this?”
- feel guilt for feeling anger toward the perpetrator if they were also a loved one?
- have difficulty moving forward due to unanswered questions?
- have conflicting emotions toward the person who committed the act?
- have feelings of worthlessness or despair?
- lack of interest in daily life?
- have difficulty connecting with others who don’t understand the situation?
If you answered yes to one or more of the above, this grief course could help.
With gentle guidance and support, we’ll help you take steps toward healing and hope.
From Tragedy to Healing: Guiding You Through Loss After Murder-Suicide is a supportive grief course created for those coping with the deep and complicated pain of losing someone to murder-suicide. Grieving a loss due to murder-suicide is an incredibly complex and isolating experience. Survivors face not only deep sorrow but also trauma, unanswered questions, and emotions that can feel overwhelming.
This 6-weck self-led course is designed to provide a compassionate, supportive space for survivors to process their grief, understand their emotions, and begin the healing journey at their own pace. In this course, you’ll learn how to process your feelings, learn healthy ways to cope, and connect with others who understand.
Over the course of six weeks. participants will engage in self-reflection exercises, and practical coping strategies to help navigate their grief. Each week will focus on a different aspect of healing, including:
- Understanding Traumatic Grief: How grief after a murder-suicide differs from other losses and how to process emotions.
- Coping with Complicated Emotions: Exploring feelings of anger, guilt, shame, and relief in a non-judgmental space.
- Self-Care & Grounding Techniques: Learning how to manage emotional overwhelm through mindfulness, rest, and healthy boundaries.
- Rebuilding a Sense of Safety & Trust: Exploring how to restore emotional security and move forward with life after loss.
- Finding Meaning & Honoring the Loved One: Identifying ways to carry love and memories forward while allowing space for healing.
How this Course can Help!
This course is designed to address the unique challenges survivors of murder-suicide face,
including:
- Teaching practical strategies to navigate grief in daily life.
- Providing tools to release self-blame and find self-compassion.
- Understanding how trauma impacts the mind and body, and how to manage triggers.
- Creating a safe space where survivors feel understood and supported.
- Learning how to process intense and conflicting emotions.
- Offers peer support from other survivors who “get it”.
A Path Toward Healing
While grief does not have a timeline, this course provides a foundation for survivors to begin understanding, processing. and integrating their grief. By the end of the six weeks, participants will have greater awareness of their emotions, tools for managing diflicult moments, and a supportive framework for continued healing.
This journey is not about forgetting— it’s about learning to carry grief in a way that allows for healing, hope, and resilience.
Get in Touch
Interested in connecting with us? We welcome you to share your thoughts and stories. Your voice matters, and we are here to support you on your journey of healing and hope.
SUPPORT IMPACTED SURVIVORS
Your donation is more than a gift—it’s a lifeline.
When you give to ISMS, you provide critical support to survivors of murder-suicide as they navigate trauma, grief, and the stigma that often follows. Your generosity helps offer safe spaces, healing resources, and community. Together, we can raise awareness, restore hope, and remind survivors they are not alone.
