Passive Versus Active Thoughts of Suicide
Suicide, much like addiction, disease, and other mental health diagnoses can happen to anyone.
Suicide. Let’s talk about it.
Dear NCAA: Now Is the Time To Make a Change
Bringing Wellness and Joy Back into Our Classrooms for Students and Teachers
How would our classrooms, our homes, and our world be different if schools were empowered to teach the skills needed to boost resilience, (emotional) regulation, and relationships?
When It All Feels Like Too Much
Sometimes hope is the thing that convinces us with no shortage of turmoil to stay put as we wait for the tides to turn.
Grief After Suicide Loss: It Doesn’t Get Lighter, You Get Used to the Weight
Hope is powerful and necessary but sometimes that’s not how the story ends. Sometimes, your sister dies and you just have to keep living without her.
The Only Way Out is Up
If I can’t trust my brain to keep me safe, perhaps I can’t always trust it to be honest about me either. Maybe some of the things I have tortured myself with over the years aren’t true.
You Are Not A Burden
Suicide is seen as tragic, but it isn’t something to ridicule, belittle, or demean.
Hope Came in the Form of a Friend
There never were any attempts to end my life, rather I wanted the emotional pain to end. And that desire was a catalyst to turn all the emotional pain into physical pain...
Safe Spaces: More Than a Car
Kiwi was my escape when I was feeling suicidal and didn’t feel safe in my apartment.
“It gets better.”
You don’t magically become a new person, one who never knows dark-and-twisty thoughts. This is what I thought the phrase “it gets better” meant.
Big Emotions and Bipolar Disorder
I come from a long line of family members who were taught to hide their mental illness, hide their differences, and lock the doors on their trauma.
