What Is a “Strong Friend”?
There’s this phrase I keep seeing when a tragic and usually surprising suicide makes the news.
Topic: suicide prevention
You Can Say Your Pain Out Loud
When all feels lost, you are still worth fighting for. The help you need, the hope you're trying to feel—we want you to have the chance to find it.
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.
You Are Not A Burden
Suicide is seen as tragic, but it isn’t something to ridicule, belittle, or demean.
Talking About Suicide with Dr. Thomas Joiner
Preventing suicide also means learning about and understanding what makes people consider suicide. Dr. Thomas Joiner helps us do just that.
We’re Doing a Disservice to Our Struggling Kids
What would happen if instead of telling “negative” or “difficult” kids that their outcries were disruptive and made people feel uncomfortable, we told them they have a right to feel all the complicated emotions and not just the pretty ones?
If We Get Another Day, How Will We Spend It?
In the inevitable moments of pain and darkness, try to remember that you are someone’s Patrick to their Aundre...
Why I Kept Going
There are days I don't want to miss.
