Suicide Awareness

Copy of 30 minutes of Hell - Silenced Me for 49 years (TRIGGER WARNING)

“In order to escape accountability for his crimes, the perpetrator does everything in his power to promote forgetting. If secrecy fails, the perpetrator attacks the credibility of his victim. If he cannot silence her absolutely, he tries to make sure no one listens.” ~ Judith Lewis Herman

New Discovery about ACE - Adverse Childhood Experience

A huge revelation came about through my contact with Jody B., episode 35. I learned that I’ve been exposed to a shit load of trauma in my life. It’s really a miracle that I’m alive, and that I raised four kids and am blessed with (now) four grandkids. Do you know your ACE score?

“I walk for...My brother, My son, Myself, my students and to end the stigma"

Suicide Prevention is an essential necessity in our modern world. Thirty two years ago my brother died by suicide. Hushed secrets, shame & disgrace prevented our family from talking about it. Instead, my mother anguished year after year in silence. I buried it and it took on a life inside my precariously promiscuous wild life.

Words Have Lasting Impact - Choose Them Wisely

Scrolling through Instagram today, I came across a post that read, “I wish I was as fat as I was the first time I thought I was fat.” I couldn’t help but cringe and try to imagine my own thinking along these lines.

My Advocacy For My Son Stems From My Brother's Suicide (Trigger Warning)

Suicide Awareness Day in England is tomorrow, April 5th, 2019. For me, it began in 1987 when it stole my older brother from our family. His diagnosis was Manic Depressive and Mild Schizophrenia Disorder. He lived in a broken home, my mother rarely supported men and my father was abusive towards him