The Leftover Pieces: Suicide Loss Conversations
Suicide loss changes everything. This show is about life after suicide—real talk and practical support for grief after suicide: parents, partners, siblings, and friends finding their footing again. Each week, we explore what helps in suicide bereavement so you can keep going with honesty and hope.
Hosted by Melissa Bottorff-Arey, whose 21-year-old son, Alex, died by suicide in 2016, the podcast blends intimate conversations with survivors, healers, and mental health experts with short solo “Daily Nugget” episodes you can actually use. We cover child loss, trauma and nervous-system care, anniversaries and seasons, stigma, faith and meaning, legacy, and the everyday practices that make life livable again. You’ll hear grounded tools, language that honors your person, and the reminder that you are not broken—you are grieving.
For supporters and educators, these episodes offer insight into the realities of suicide grief and what genuine, non-fixing support looks like. If you’d like to share your story or expertise, you can request to be a guest via my website. 💜
Content Note
This podcast speaks candidly about difficult experiences and may feel activating. We avoid method details and graphic description. Please care for yourself as needed. I’m not a doctor or licensed therapist; nothing here is medical or mental-health advice.
The Leftover Pieces: Suicide Loss Conversations
Facing Choices After Loss; Purpose Over Despair with Carey Conley
Today I have a poignant conversation with a suicide loss wife AND mom. She has refocused her life's coaching mission from business coaching to a mental health centered coaching business. She helps professionals in areas of anxiety & stress & mental health wellness now. Reducing suicide by having hard conversations & better equipping people to manage their stress is now her mission. It is a great conversation. Thank you for joining us.
Find her at CareyConley.com
Read more about her here:
"Carey Conley was born and raised in Denver, CO. She now splits her time between Arizona and Oklahoma to spend time with her Daughter Laurel 27 and grand-son Pryce 1. Carey’s experience of growing successful sales and marketing businesses for 20 years while raising her kids is an achievement on its own. She now owns her coaching practice Infinity Corporation for over Ten years and has helped hundreds around the country and the world gain momentous success. She also co-authored a Bestselling book called ‘Keep Looking Up’ in 2019.
Carey Conley’s personal story is full of extraordinary success and devastating tragedy. She lost her husband and son to suicide 3 years apart and was able to be strong for her daughter and to live her purpose that became her driving force. Those are the experiences that bring power to her message and help others achieve what they never thought was possible. Carey found her passion and ability to help men and women create, develop, and execute a rock-solid, bigger-than-life vision that propels them to succeed in all areas of life, including self-love, financial prosperity, a healthy lifestyle, caring relationships, a strong family, supreme confidence, and spiritual connection.
Carey Conley now travels the world and the country to Virtual and Live events helping men and women professionally and personally build their self-empowering skills by using her vision methodology. She shows them how to shed past pain, fear, and hardship, in order to manifest a beautiful life that’s within reach."
Find Carey, her podcast & her book... & everything she does at CareyConley.com
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📞 Need help now? If you or someone you love is struggling with suicidal thoughts, dial 988 in the U.S. & Canada, or text HOME to 741741.