Acceptance Without Forgiveness: Suicide, Trauma, and Taking Your Life Back with Maike Mullenders
Maike is the author of The Confession: A Journey to Acceptance, her memoir of growing up with a father with undiagnosed mental health issues who went on to take his own life. She is a lived experience speaker and volunteer for Survivors of Bereavement by suicide
When Maike Mullenders was eleven years old, her dad sat her down and told her he was going to end his life — and made her say goodbye.
He survived that night. But ten years later, he died by suicide and left behind a confession to the police saying he’d “been inappropriate” with her — something Maike had no memory of.
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