To invite Carrie to speak, please contact:
Affirm Publications, LLC
Email: info@affirmpublications.com
Phone: (720) 289-6068

Carrie has lectured or taught workshops for: National Suicide Prevention Symposium at Regis University, Jefferson County Victims Advocates, Tattered Cover Book Store, Atlantic City Schools district.Carrie has been featured on:1360 WLBK AM, Suicide Prevention Show, Reader Views/Inside Scoop Live, Souls Journey Radio at www.soulsjourneyradio.com, and Author's @ Douglas County Libraries.

Topics include: Suicide prevention, Understanding the impact a parent’s suicide has on a child, How to help teens through grief, Comforting a suicide survivor.

Endorsements:

Few authors can approach the most difficult subjects in a manner where the reader not only receives solutions, but also feels deeply understood and validated. In Crossing 13: Memoir of a Father's Suicide, Carrie Stark Hugus accomplishes this through sharing her deeply personal journey. This book shall touch all who read it, and for those who have suffered the loss of a loved one through suicide, it offers immediate help, hope, and new direction. ~ Dr. Lee Jampolsky, best selling author of HEALING THE ADDICTED PERSONALITY and SMILE FOR NO GOOD REASON

Heartbreaking and bleakly honest, Carrie shares her struggle to find a new normal following the suicide of her father just as she enters her teens. Young survivors of a parent’s suicide will identify with and benefit from recognizing that their confusing, frightening grief responses are normal for what they have experienced. They will be encouraged by learning Carrie has grown through her grief and now enjoys a happy, stable adulthood. ~ LaRita Archibald, Founder of HEARTBEAT Support for Survivors After Suicide.

CROSSING 13 is powerful. When the administrator reads it, one can clearly see the need to have the discussion or conversation with professional staff on the subject of suicide. There are groups for children who lost parents to cancer, accidents, and other illnesses, but suicide is a subject that many avoid. There needs to be more awareness of the signs of suicide and the pain that a suicide survivor feels within the school community. ~ Donna L. Haye, Assistant Superintendent of Atlantic City Schools

This courageous account of one little girl’s journey to understand why shows us that suicide changes everyone it touches and it takes a lifetime to recover. CROSSING 13 will open your eyes, break your heart and touch your soul. ~ Tamra Monahan, Tattered Cover Book Store and author, Colorado's BEST BED AND BREAKFASTS