More Than Their Final Act: Holding Space After Murder-Suicide Loss

Update: 2025-09-03

Description

In this episode of Mental Health News Radio, host Kristin speaks with the co-hosts of the Unspoken Grief podcast and core members of the nonprofit Impacted Survivors of Murder-Suicide: Michael Vinton, Kristina Faulkner, and Tina Chevalier. Each of these advocates is also a survivor. Through deeply personal stories of loss, they illuminate what it means to live with—and speak from—the aftermath of murder-suicide. Together, they discuss the realities of grief shaped by stigma, media distortion, and silence, and how their work offers a space where no one is made to feel responsible and no one has to grieve alone. Topics include:

How peer-led grief work meets needs that clinical spaces can miss
Navigating shame, survivor guilt, and the unanswered “why”
Media boundaries and narrative reclamation
The fire of advocacy as part of post-traumatic meaning-making
Building bridges for others while still healing yourself

This is a compassionate, trauma-informed, and clinically valuable conversation for survivors, therapists, and anyone walking alongside someone who has experienced complex grief. Learn more at www.impactedsurvivors.org.

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