If you are in crisis right now
Please do not wait for a stay. If you are thinking about ending your life, or you are worried you might act on those thoughts, reach out now. In the United States, call or text 988 to reach the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline, or call 911. Outside the United States, contact your local emergency number.
Is Samsāra for me?
Samsāra Sanctuary is being built for a particular kind of grief.
This page will help you know whether a stay is the right place for you now.
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Samsāra is being built for you if
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You have lost someone to suicide, whether the loss is recent or years behind you. Grief from suicide does not expire, and there is no wrong amount of time to have waited.
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Someone you love survived an attempt, and your family has been living inside the aftermath ever since.
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You are coming alone, or with your whole family. Both will be welcome.
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You are tired in a way that sleeping in your own bed has not touched.
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When a different kind of care comes first
Samsāra will be a non-clinical house. It will not provide therapy, medical care, detox, or crisis stabilization. If you are at risk of harming yourself, or you need medical or psychiatric treatment
right now, that care comes first.
This is not a judgment about how much you are hurting. It is honesty about what a rest-first
house can safely hold. When you are ready for rest, the door will be here.
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What a stay will cost
Stays will be offered at a fee set relative to market rate and to what each guest can realistically afford.
A scholarship fund, supported by donors and grants, will cover guests who cannot pay.
Money should never be the reason someone stays home.
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How a stay will begin
You will be able to come through a referral from a therapist, grief counselor, or postvention organization, or you can reach out yourself. You don't need anyone's permission to ask.
Applications will open when Phase One is ready. Until then, join the interest list, and we will write to you first.
Samsāra Sanctuary is in development and not yet open. Phase One, a rest-first home in rural Utah, will host the first stays.
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Samsāra Sanctuary is a program of the Elle Fisher Foundation Corp, a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. EIN: 32-0847572.