Abby Salois

Cognoscenti contributor

Abby Salois has been a practicing attorney for the last 12 years, specializing in state-intervention child custody cases, particularly appeals. She lost her older sister, Liza Friedlander, to suicide in 2020. Since then, her work — all with an eye towards destigmatizing mental illness and suicide loss —has appeared in TWLOHA, CommonWealth Beacon and the Worcester Telegram & Gazette, among other publications. She lives in Holden, Massachusetts with her family.

Recently published

The author (left) and her sister, Liza, at a family gathering in Manhattan, circa 2007. (Courtesy Abby Salois)

After my sister died, I found refuge in my running sneakers

After Abby Salois’s sister died by suicide, she just wanted to hide. But with a career and young children, she couldn’t. Instead, Salois writes, “I learned to hide inside a...

Cognoscenti

Apr 16, 2024