How We Go On:

This Gathering Is For You If You Are:

• Grieving the loss of someone who chose to take their life
• Supporting someone through suicide loss
• Struggling with guilt, blame, or unanswered questions after a suicide
• Seeking ways to honor your grief while still engaging with life
• Looking for community with others who understand this particular kind of loss
• Wondering how to hold compassion for both the deceased and those left behind
• Searching for practices that help you continue loving life after profound loss

Through Our Time Together, You Will:

• Discover how grief after suicide can be held with both tenderness and wonder
• Learn practices for caring for yourself and your family after such a loss
• Understand how relationships with deceased loved ones can continue to grow
• Explore how poetry and creative expression can be companions through grief
• Gain tools for meeting the complexity of emotions that arise after suicide
• Connect with a community of fellow travelers who understand this landscape of loss
• Find permission to love life again without betraying your grief

Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer

Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer has been writing and sharing a poem a day since 2006—a practice that especially nourished her after her son, Finn, chose to take his life in August 2021, just weeks before his seventeenth birthday.

Her daily poems can be found on her blog, A Hundred Falling Veils, or a curated version (with optional prompts) on her daily audio series, The Poetic Path, available with the Ritual app. Her most recent poetry collections, All the Honey and The Unfolding, both explore how we might meet the deaths of our beloved and still fall in love with the world that remains.

She is the author of Exploring Poetry of Presence II: Prompts to Deepen Your Writing Practice, and her poetry album, Dark Praise, explores "endarkenment." She also co-hosts Emerging Form (a podcast on creative process), Secret Agents of Change (a surreptitious kindness cabal), and Soul Writer's Circle.

Her poetry has appeared on A Prairie Home Companion, PBS News Hour, O Magazine, American Life in Poetry, The Washington Post, on Carnegie Hall stage, and on river rocks she leaves around town. In January 2024, she became the first poet laureate for Evermore, helping others explore grief, bereavement, wonder, and love through poetry.

Her three-word mantra: I'm still learning, and, if limited to one: Adjust.

Mirabai Starr

Mirabai Starr is an award-winning author, internationally acclaimed speaker, and interspiritual teacher. Drawing from 20 years of teaching Philosophy and World Religions and a lifetime of practice, Mirabai shares her wisdom worldwide on contemplative living, writing as a spiritual practice, and the transformational power of grief and loss.

She has authored over a dozen books including Wild Mercy, Caravan of No Despair, and renowned translations of sacred literature. Her work bridges the mystical teachings across traditions with a focus on how personal heartbreak can open us to the suffering of the world and catalyze our commitment to alleviating it through compassion and service.

As a bereaved mother herself, Mirabai brings deep understanding of how grief can become a teacher, opening our hearts to both the pain and beauty of being human.

We're Eager to Hear Your Voice

Participants will be asked to submit questions before the event to inform what our speakers share. You will also have an opportunity to ask follow-up questions during our time together live.

You are an important part of the conversation.

Grief Conversations Happen Every Month of 2025

Join the Wild Heart community in other heart-to-hearts exploring the full spectrum of grief.

These conversations are for those who may be feeling alienated in their grief experience, longing for community and supportive resources. We hope these dialogues with companions on the journey will offer new perspectives and aid in exploring grief as a spiritual process.