THANK YOU

for coming out today to share in our communitys Out of the Darkness Walk. Although we may have come together today as strangers, we find we are connected with a common thread or bond. Our lives have been touched by suicide. Most of us have lost people we loved. Our walk today symbolizes the journey weve been traveling and the one ahead of us. Our journey is one of living, grieving, healing, and reaching out to others to give and get support and comfort. We are not alone. The death or loss of the body of a person we loved is not the loss of that special person or soul. They can and do live on in our hearts, in our memories, in our thoughts and in our actions. We honor their life every day through living our own. We are left with a difficult taskliving without people we love living with such a terrible event one that we would never imagine or ask for. So we ask for and look for the tools and skills needed to get through this tragedy, through this journey we ask for them for ourselves and for our companions on this walk. We are not alone - we are on this journey together, marked by our Walk on Sunday October 27, 2013

National Survivors of Suicide Day

Saturday, November 23, 2013
Call 843 566-7183

Hampton Park - Charleston, SC

Sunday, October 27, 2013
1:00pm Registration Opens 2:00pm Program/Walk Begins

Survivors of Suicide Support Groups

1st and 3rd Wednesday of the month; 7:00 pm; Heartlands of West Ashley, 1137 Sam Rittenburg Blvd; call Charlotte @ 843-566-7183 2nd Tuesday of the month; 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm; First Scots Presbyterian Church; Education Building; 53 Meeting Street; call Jim and Jan @ 843-722-8882 or 843-559-4129

OPENING PROGRAM
Welcome Twelve Freedoms of Healing in Grief Tina Mueller Deb C, Karen S., Tom R., Abby M., Debbie Y., Sandy L., Meike McD., Dana F., Carla W., Larry S., Patty D., Bobbi Jo D. Everybody Erin Dudley

Twelve Freedoms of Healing in Grief

You have the freedom to realize your grief is unique You have the freedom to talk about your grief You have the freedom to expect to feel a multitude of emotions You have the freedom to allow for numbness You have the freedom to be tolerant of your physical and emotional limits You have the freedom to experience grief attacks or memory embraces You have the freedom to develop a support system You have the freedom to make use of rituals You have the freedom to embrace your spirituality You have the freedom to allow a search for meaning You have the freedom to treasure your memories You have the freedom to move toward your grief and heal
From Understanding Grief: Helping Yourself Heal by Alan D. Wolfelt, PhD Accelerated Development, 1992.

Speaking of the Names Responsive Reading We Remember Them

WALK
Music by Brothers in Arms Band & Chuck

CLOSING PROGRAM
AFSP Awards Where the money goeswhat happens to your donations? Bubble release Native American Prayer with Flute Closing Remarks Kathy Ward Tom Robinson Charlotte Anderson/ Everybody Rob Dewey and Delia Chariker Tina Mueller

RESPONSIVE READING : WE REMEMBER THEM

At the rising of the sun and at its going down, We remember them. At the blowing of the wind and in the chill of winter, We remember them. At the opening of the buds and in the rebirth of spring, We remember them. At the shining of the sun and in the warmth of summer, We remember them. At the rustling of the leaves and in the beauty of autumn, We remember them. At the beginning of the year and at its end, We remember them. As long as we live, they too will live: For they are now a part of us, As we remember them. When we are weary and in need of strength, We remember them. When we are lost and sick at heart, We remember them. When we have joy we crave to share, We remember them. When we have decisions that are difficult to make, We remember them. When we have achievements that are based on theirs, We remember them. When we fulfill their dreams, and our own, We remember them. As long as we live, they too will live: For they are now a part of us, As we remember them.
Rabbis Sylvan Kamens and Jack Riemer

Daniel Island Employee Advised Fund; Roper St. Francis Hospital; Palmetto Behavioral Health; Richards Automotive; Ledfords Termite & Pest Control Inc.; Carrie R. Grady Womens Missionary Society ; Wild Thyme catering & events; Trident United Way 211 Hotline; MUSC Institute of Psychiatry, MUSC College of Nursing; Earth Fare; Starbucks Calhoun St; Charleston Cotton Exchange, City of Charleston Recreation Department; Snyder - The Event Rental Co.
We also thank the committee members and volunteers who put this event together. Your hard work and dedication is greatly appreciated.

Music provided by the Brothers in Arms band & Chuck. Thank you to our sponsors and contributors: