Parent Footprint With Dr. Dan

*TRIGGER WARNING: SUICIDE AND RELATED TOPICS DISCUSSED* Today Dr. Dan is in conversation with Jill Bialosky to discuss suicide and the 10 year anniversary edition of her extraordinary memoir History of a Suicide: My Sister’s Unfinished Life. This episode offers an essential, sensitive, and very intimate discussion about suicide with a survivor. In 1990, Jill Bialosky’s 21-year-old sister committed suicide after fighting with her boyfriend. In this interview, Jill discusses her stunning book which recreates her sister’s inner life in order to make sense of it. As a result of writing History of a Suicide, Jill weaves a larger tapestry of what suicide looks like in other families and what it has meant culturally.  Throughout this episode Dr. Dan and Jill discuss her sister Kim’s suicide as well as grief, loss, fear, shame, and guilt. Additionally, Jill explains how bewilderment and her unanswered questions inspired this book. Ten years since the publication of History of a Suicide, Jill also shares insight into