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{{Short description|Practical guide for the first 90 days after a suicide loss}} | |||
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| name = After the Shock: Surviving the First 90 Days After a Suicide Loss | |||
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| author = Christine Rifenburgh | |||
| country = United States | |||
| language = English | |||
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| genre = Nonfiction; Self-help; Grief | |||
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| pub_date = 2025 | |||
| media_type = Print • eBook | |||
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The book is both a survival guide and a raw testimony. Structured around three thirty-day phases—Shock, Reality, and Rebuilding—it provides readers with emotional validation, practical coping strategies, and deeply human acknowledgment of the chaos that suicide grief brings. | The book is both a survival guide and a raw testimony. Structured around three thirty-day phases—Shock, Reality, and Rebuilding—it provides readers with emotional validation, practical coping strategies, and deeply human acknowledgment of the chaos that suicide grief brings. | ||
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• Physical symptoms matter. Rifenburgh validates the body’s response to grief—chest pain, fatigue, digestive issues—as part of trauma. | • Physical symptoms matter. Rifenburgh validates the body’s response to grief—chest pain, fatigue, digestive issues—as part of trauma. | ||
• Carrying on is not forgetting. Survivors are urged to integrate grief into life, not erase it. | • Carrying on is not forgetting. Survivors are urged to integrate grief into life, not erase it. | ||
== Writing Style== | == Writing Style== | ||
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Rifenburgh writes in a direct, conversational, and emotionally transparent style. She avoids platitudes like “time heals all wounds” or “everything happens for a reason.” Instead, she delivers blunt truths about loneliness, guilt, and anger while balancing them with compassionate survival tools. | Rifenburgh writes in a direct, conversational, and emotionally transparent style. She avoids platitudes like “time heals all wounds” or “everything happens for a reason.” Instead, she delivers blunt truths about loneliness, guilt, and anger while balancing them with compassionate survival tools. | ||
Her prose alternates between intimate second-person addresses (“You are not reading this because someone you loved died peacefully…”) and practical, almost manual-like guidance. This duality reflects the lived chaos of suicide grief—both personal and pragmatic. | Her prose alternates between intimate second-person addresses (“You are not reading this because someone you loved died peacefully…”) and practical, almost manual-like guidance. This duality reflects the lived chaos of suicide grief—both personal and pragmatic. | ||
== Reception and Impact== | == Reception and Impact== | ||
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Christine Rifenburgh’s After the Shock is more than a guide; it is part memoir, part survival manual, and part manifesto against silence. By speaking the unspeakable, Rifenburgh reshapes how grief after suicide is discussed in public and private spaces. | Christine Rifenburgh’s After the Shock is more than a guide; it is part memoir, part survival manual, and part manifesto against silence. By speaking the unspeakable, Rifenburgh reshapes how grief after suicide is discussed in public and private spaces. | ||
For survivors, the book stands as both a lifeline and a testament: you are not broken, you are not alone, and you can survive this storm—even when survival feels impossible. | For survivors, the book stands as both a lifeline and a testament: you are not broken, you are not alone, and you can survive this storm—even when survival feels impossible. | ||
== See Also== | == See Also== | ||