A Shamanic Perspective on Suicide
⚠️ Trigger Warning: Sensitive Subject – Suicide ⚠️
Today, I want to speak from the heart ❤️. It’s about something deeply sensitive. It concerns the loss of a loved one to suicide.
When someone we love passes away, it’s always heartbreaking 💔. But when they take their own life, it brings a particular grief. This grief is tangled with so many emotions all at once: sadness 😢, confusion, guilt, anger, helplessness.
It’s not just mourning the person we lost. It’s also mourning the unseen pain they carried. They lived with silence 🤐. The disconnection and loneliness wrapped around them like an invisible cloak.
When death comes through illness or accident, there is often a sense that it was beyond anyone’s control. But with suicide, it can leave us questioning ourselves:
- Could I have done more?
- Did I miss the signs?
- Was their suffering deeper than I could ever have known?
These questions can haunt the heart. They are the cries of love trying to make sense of the senseless.
In many shamanic traditions, suicide is understood differently than it is in modern culture.
They recognize something called soul loss. It is a deep spiritual wounding. Parts of a person’s essence break away through trauma, fear, or heartbreak 💔.
In this fragmented state, a person can feel utterly lost, numb, and hopeless. Sometimes the pain feels too heavy to carry. From this view, suicide is not seen as a clear choice. It is a profound spiritual suffering that wasn’t met with the healing and love it desperately needed 🌸.
Shamans believe that when someone dies by suicide, rituals are needed:
- To help the soul find peace 🕊️.
- To mend the energetic wounds left behind for those who stay.
- To protect the living from being swallowed by grief that is too heavy to bear alone.
There is no condemnation in this view — only deep compassion 🤍.
A call for healing.
A way to honour both the one who has departed and those left behind.
If these words touch something inside you, please know you don’t have to carry it alone. If you are carrying grief, confusion, anger, or guilt, you are not alone. An ache that has no words can be shared too.
I am here.
I offer my heart, my understanding, and my healing practice to anyone who feels the need for support. Please don’t hesitate to reach out. Together, we can honour the pain. We can honour the love. We will find ways to weave light back into the spaces that feel unbearably dark 🌿.
With love and gentleness,
Gudrun Christine Fritz
Shamanic Healing 