Dear Mallory

incomprehensible pain, which finally surpasses his or her resources to overcome
it.  And the sometimes imperceptible but colossal ways we are connected to one
another.
Join friends and loved ones of Mallory Richards on their healing journey through
grief, heartache and gratitude for a precious life cut all too short.  So that life can
be affirmed for everyone.





      "[Dear Mallory] has the power to change many lives."

                        ~~Dan Stuart, M.S., L.M.F.T.
                            Executive Director, Founding Partner, Solstice
                            Residential Treatment Center for Adolescent Girls
                            Layton, Utah        

      "[Dear Mallory] is the synthesis of the agonizing journey from grief's darkest days
      to the dawning of healing, acceptance and hope.  The book honors the power of
      the indomitable human spirit to survive, to make meaning from the horror, and
      to value relationships, love and life."

                        ~~Iris Bolton, author of My Son, My Son

     
      "I stand in awe of Lisa Richards' courage to passionately and intimately share
       with us her loss, refusing to be silenced by her daughter Mallory's suicide."
                
                       ~~from Foreword to Dear Mallory, by Nancy Rappaport, M.D.
                            Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
     

      "This book should be mental health professionals' vade mecum for guidance, 
       support and reference in their practices."

                      ~~Paul J. Lane, Ph.D., Clinical Psychologist


      "...a powerful book."

                      ~~Elaine Leader, Ph.D., CGP,FAGPA
                          Executive Director, TEEN LINE
                           Cedars-Sinai Hospital, Los Angeles, California


     "Dear Mallory is an exceptional and uplifting book."

                      ~~Mort Schrag, The Compassionate Friends


      "These letters are poignantly personal, yet they speak to the universal
       experience of anyone who has been touched by suicide loss."

                    ~~Nina J. Gutin, Ph.D.
                         Co-Chair, Clinician-Survivor Task Force,
                         American Association of Suicidology;
                         Survivors After Suicide Program, Didi Hirsch Mental Health Center
                         Los Angeles, California