I Wrote About My Mother’s Suicide and Found My Own Voice Instead

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What happens when a professional ghostwriter, who has spent twenty years giving voice to others, is forced to confront her own story following her mother’s suicide? In this deeply moving episode, Emmy Award-winning producer and bestselling author Samantha Rose joins the show to discuss her award-winning memoir, Giving Up the Ghost . Samantha shares the tender, complicated journey of navigating her mother’s unexpected death by suicide—a tragedy that shattered her world and challenged her relationship with the truth. From the "constellation of questions" left in the wake of loss to the liberating power of saying the "scary thing" out loud, Sam explores how she moved from betrayal and anger…