Elaine Kennelly - Finding Peace After a Suicide Loss: Healing Truths for Those Not Yet Healed

Its every parents nightmarethe suicide death of a child. Elaine Kennelly has endured that nightmare. In her book Finding Peace after a Suicide Loss: Healing Truths for Those Not Yet Healed , she offers a path into daybreak, beyond bitterness to healing truths. We still understand little about depression and suicide even as society suffers these ills in increasing numbers. Elaine invites us into her insights, into her journey, into a better understanding of what seem impossible situations. Written in a then-and-now framework, Finding Peace after a Suicide Loss is balm for wounded spirits.

Nancy E. Head,

author of Restoring the Shattered: Illustrating Christs Love through the Church in One Accord

I was stuck in grief after my nephew murdered both of his parents, my sister, and my brother-in-law. But this book, Finding Peace after a Suicide Loss: Healing Truths for Those Not Yet Healed , gave me hope that my nephew can be forgiven and reunited with his parents in heaven. My favorite point in the entire book is grace always wins !

Teri Metcalf,

murder survivor and GriefShare participant

With honesty and transparency, Elaine Kennelly writes about the difficult-to-discuss topic of suicide in her book Finding Peace after a Suicide Loss: Healing Truths for Those Not Yet Healed . Its a topic she knows well. She doesnt sugarcoat the gut-wrenching pain survivors experience, and she doesnt say that the healing process is easy, but she shares significant truths that can help loved ones find peace after suicide loss. Her beautifully written words offer hope, comfort, and promise. Thank you, Elaine, for this important book!

Twila Belk,

writer, speaker, and author of eight books, including, The Power to Be , Be Still , Be Grateful , Be Strong , and Be Courageous

Finding Peace after a Suicide Loss: Healing Truths for Those Not Yet Healed is one of the more honest reflections concerning the loss of a loved one to suicide that I have ever read. The reader is immediately invited to walk with Elaine Kennelly through the depths of her brokenness and encounter a mother who has darkness as her closest friend. This powerful journey leads one through this terrific battle of faith and redemption toward renewed faith in God expressed by prayer, service, and even a glimmer of hope. Elaines vulnerability will empower you to open up your true heart to the Spirit as she teaches us to call upon Gods hand to heal the soul.

Rev. Dr. David R. Saliba,

Senior Pastor,

Perdido Bay United Methodist Church, Pensacola, Florida

In her book Finding Peace after a Suicide Loss: Healing Truths for Those Not Yet Healed , Elaine Kennelly unravels so many realities that were not understood after the suicide of my brother. I never understood the emotions I was going through until Elaine uncovered every single one of them through the pages of her helpful book. Thank you from the many people who will read this book and find comfort in knowing they arent weak or crazy! They will know that God rescues them, and there is hope after all. I love you for opening up yourself and sharing your story to help others.

Linda Jones,

suicide survivor in the loss of her brother

If there was ever a time for a book focusing gently but courageously on the subject of suicide, it is now. As a pastor for over sixty years, I would have bought this book for every situation involving a suicide. The increasing number of suicides among our youth and among senior adults is a staggering problem. This powerful book, Finding Peace after a Suicide Loss: Healing Truths for Those Not Yet Healed , can open up our hearts to make an eternal difference in the lives of people all around us. Is there any help or hope? Elaine Kennelly says yes! Our help and hope is Jesus! The timeliness and the transparency of this book on death by suicide are beyond amazing.

Dr. Jimmy Jackson,

Pastor Emeritus,

Whitesburg Baptist Church, Huntsville, Alabama

In Finding Peace after a Suicide Loss: Healing Truths for Those Not Yet Healed , Elaine Kennelly has given an insightful, personal gift to counselors and clients who are trying to find or help facilitate peace after a suicide loss. This book provides the powerful use of Scripture as the ultimate healing truth and comfort for those wounded by grief and the spiritual devastation of suicide.

Kathy Eggold,

Cofounder,

Cross Connections Counseling, Fort Wayne, Indiana

Finding Peace after a Suicide Loss: Healing Truths for Those Not Yet Healed is a definite biblical must for pastors and people struggling with surviving a suicide death.

Pastor Al Braun,

St. Paul Minnesota Metro Circuit,

Lutheran Church, Missouri Synod

I highly recommend Finding Peace after a Suicide Loss: Healing Truths for Those Not Yet Healed . Christian pastors and lay leaders who are assisting people who have experienced the loss of a loved one by suicide will find this book to be very helpful. It is a resource that should be available to members of every congregation and Christian fellowship. Thank you, Elaine, for sharing your story and what the Lord has taught you in his Word as you have moved from profound loss to the peace that passes all understanding.

Pastor Tom Eggold,

retired Lutheran minister

Raw and real Finding Peace after a Suicide Loss: Healing Truths for Those Not Yet Healed is instrumental for gaining desperately needed insight and perspective with which to compassionately counsel patients and intimately relate to those who are struggling with the devastating, incomprehensible loss of a loved one through suicide.

Dr. Tim OHara, MD, MPH

Finding Peace after a Suicide Loss: Healing Truths for Those Not Yet Healed is a heartfelt, transparent, healing story, engaging and easy to follow. Included in each chapter is a succinct Healing Truth, which Elaine Kennelly unwraps for us. Her theology is solid. That she could find healing after such a tragedy gives hope to those who struggle after a suicide loss. She makes a good point about how suicide is not an unforgivable sin, which will bring comfort. I would encourage those who have experienced a suicide loss to read her story so they might also find healing. It is not an easy road, but Elaine has walked it successfully.

Dr. Steve Hammer, MD

Beautiful! Powerful! Spiritual! Compelling! These words come to mind after reading Finding Peace after a Suicide Loss: Healing Truths for Those Not Yet Healed. I found that much of the content also applies to other grief causes, as I experienced with the loss of my wife. Praise God for his loving and helping hands in every wound not yet healed.

Richard E. Maas,

retired Principal,

Grace Lutheran School, Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin

Finding Peace after a Suicide Loss: Healing Truths for Those Not Yet Healed is such a great answer for a time like this! Thank you, Elaine, for opening your life to us and being vulnerable, not only through the process of loss, but also into victory in Christ. You show us how God has taken you on a journey of healing, and you do it in a biblical way. What a great resource this will be among college ministries! I highly recommend it.

Oliver Marin,

Student-Led Movements Team Leader with Cru, Latin America and the Caribbean

If you have been through the relentless grief of losing someone you love through suicide, Finding Peace after a Suicide Loss: Healing Truths for Those Not Yet Healed can be trusted as a guide through the guilt, despair, anger, and hopelessness that this loss brings into your life. Working through her own deep depression, emotional exhaustion, and faulty coping mechanisms, Elaine Kennelly finds the One she is most angry at is the One who is most present and patient with her to walk her slowly toward healing. Before her healing can be engaged, she has to learn to trust Jesus again. Without trite answers or faulty hope, Elaine offers her own faltering journey as evidence that there is a way through the darkness.