Book
Diary of a Broken Mind
A mother's memoir on losing a son to suicide — and what she learned in the years after.
Explore →Life Capital in Action · Issue 01
From Loss to Lifeline
Life Capital is created when lived experience becomes something that helps others navigate similar challenges. AnneMoss Rogers lost her son to suicide. What she did next reshaped how thousands of families talk about mental health.

AnneMoss Rogers
Author · Speaker · Bereaved Parent · Educator

Portrait · Life Capital in Action series
The Story
In 2015, AnneMoss Rogers lost her 20-year-old son Charles to suicide after a long, hidden struggle with depression and addiction. In the years that followed, she chose not to grieve in private.
She started writing. Then speaking. Then training teachers, parents, and clinicians on the language they needed to ask the question most people are too afraid to ask. Her memoir, her TEDx talk, and her school curricula have reached hundreds of thousands of people — and helped many of them stay alive.
This is what Life Capital looks like in practice. Not a credential. Not a job title. A body of knowledge that could only have been earned by living it — and a refusal to let that knowledge die with the experience that produced it.
Watch
TEDxCharlottesville · 14 minutes
Reflect
Prompt 01
What experience in your life taught you something valuable?
Prompt 02
What wisdom did you gain that others might benefit from?
Prompt 03
How has adversity shaped who you are today?
Learn
Book
A mother's memoir on losing a son to suicide — and what she learned in the years after.
Explore →Talk
Why naming the unspeakable saves lives, and how to start the conversation today.
Explore →Article
Practical language for educators, parents, and peers to talk about mental health.
Explore →Resource
Workshops, school curricula, and community trainings developed from lived experience.
Explore →Presentation
The story of how grief became education, advocacy, and a measurable public-health contribution.
Explore →Series
Long-form interviews with families turning private loss into public good.
Explore →Life Capital Lessons
Pain can become purpose.
Stories reduce isolation.
Experience is a form of expertise.
Helping others creates meaning.
Silence is the soil suffering grows in.
Community Response
"I read her book the year after my son's diagnosis. It gave me permission to talk about something I'd been hiding for a decade."
Karen T.
Family advocate · Glasgow
"Her line — experience is a form of expertise — is the sentence that made me start telling my own story."
Marta J.
PeerCaster · Chicago
"What resonated most: pain doesn't have to be wasted. Mine isn't anymore."
Lisa C.
Caregiver · Vancouver
Your turn
Share your story, become a PeerCaster, contribute to Project GALE, or join a local chapter. Life Capital grows the moment lived experience is offered to someone else.
The Series
Life Capital in Action highlights people who have turned life's challenges, transitions, and triumphs into wisdom that helps others move forward.
Coming next: Recovery advocates · Mental-health leaders · Caregivers · Educators · Researchers · Community builders