Lee Erickson, MA, LPCC
Bottle Rocket
by Lee Erickson Dusky hue of summer fading its light waiting for the pop boom and rattle of pyrotechnics that will start my heart and...
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Lee Erickson, MA, LPCC
Mar 251 min
Bowl
by Lee Erickson My beautiful Bulgarian bowl, given as a gift now lays shattered in pieces. Sharp shards destined to cut. The whole now...
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Lee Erickson, MA, LPCC
Mar 41 min
Garden Projects
by Lee Erickson there are a million garden projects conceived in the dead of winter big projects glorious projects glamorous projects...
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Lee Erickson, MA, LPCC
Mar 42 min
Monarchs
By Lee Erickson Steven Bruns spent all morning of the mid-summer day of my tenth year, his eleventh year (although he was a grade behind...
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Lee Erickson, MA, LPCC
Mar 21 min
East
by Lee Erickson His left foot was pointing East, East like where the sun rises. And as he was dying, I budded. When he died, I bloomed....
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Lee Erickson, MA, LPCC
Jan 93 min
The Legacy of The Cutting Board - How A Simple Gift Continues To Connect Me To My Brother
At our last Christmas together, my brother Randy and his family gave me a wooden cutting board for Christmas. And seven months later, he...
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Lee Erickson, MA, LPCC
Jan 74 min
Unlocking the Power of Words: How A Poem Can Transform Your Life
It was Saturday, March 16, 2002, 11 days after my brother Doug had killed himself and I was out for dinner with my brother Steve and his...
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Lee Erickson, MA, LPCC
Jan 74 min
The Burden of Guilt: How Joseph's Story Resonates With Our Own Struggles
Several years ago, there had been a death of a beloved teacher at a school in a suburb of the Twin Cities. A colleague of mine and I were...
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Lee Erickson, MA, LPCC
Jan 73 min
My Dead Friends by Marie Howe - A Poem for More Life - Less Worry
I have begun, when I’m weary and can’t decide an answer to a bewildering question to ask my dead friends for their opinion and the answer...
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Lee Erickson, MA, LPCC
Jan 74 min
#1 Early Tuesday Morning
Donna Erickson had awoken early Tuesday, March 5, 2002 because she was determined to make a batch of raspberry jam. She had a five-quart...
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Lee Erickson, MA, LPCC
Jan 78 min
# 3 When Love is Gone: The Weight of Absence in Relationships
“No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear. I am not afraid, but the sensation is like being afraid. The same fluttering in the...
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Lee Erickson, MA, LPCC
Jan 713 min
#2 Coping with the Loss of a Loved One to Suicide: My Personal Experience
As I pulled into the parking ramp of the BonTon department store, I knew it was going to be a bad day. I had contracted parking in the...
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Lee Erickson, MA, LPCC
Jan 73 min
Uncovering the Truth: Dealing with the Emotional Turmoil of Family Secrets
Several years ago, I attended a conference on suicide. Having lost my brother Doug to suicide in 2002, I have been interested in the...
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Lee Erickson, MA, LPCC
Jan 24 min
Finding Balance in Life: The Art of Holding Two Things at Once
I guess one of the most painful things about dealing with the death of my brother to suicide was this notion of what to do with the swirl...
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