358: Anne Moss Rogers: Honoring A Son Who Died By Suicide

Anne Moss Rogers is a TEDx speaker and owner of the popular Emotionally Naked blog. She is a social media and content marketing expert who turned into an 'accidental leader' as a suicide prevention advocate after her son Charles, who suffered from depression and addiction, died by suicide in June 2015.

She has been interviewed by the New York Times and was the first suicide loss survivor ever invited to speak at the National Institute of Mental Health. Her blog, Emotionally Naked which focuses on subjects including suicide, grief, addiction, and mental illness reached over a half million views in its first three years. She has written a book, Diary of a Broken Mind that includes her son’s song lyrics, which will publish October 2019.

Listen in to hear Anne Moss share:

• The warning signs of his son’s depression and anxiety
• The days and events leading up to her son’s death
• How she feels comforted and connected to Charles when she’s on stage talking about his death
• How she finds purpose in her day to day life after losing her child
• How she is leveraging technology and the internet to save the lives of actively suicidal people

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• Connect with Anne moss
• Anne Moss’s Blog
• Anne Moss on Instagram
• Anne Moss on Facebook
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• Help eliminate stigma, join the emotionally naked tribe and enter to win a free copy of Diary of a Broken Mind due out in October 2019.: Emotionally Naked (or text to join at 66866)

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