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

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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