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Boost Suicide Prevention Skills With 3 Sentence Stem Tips
1. Write down reflections to slow thinking and speed up results. My crisis support skills always developed at the speed of my self awareness. Put another way, my growth was as slow as my ability to reflect and learn about myself. If you don’t write reflectively it might be for the following reasons: Can’t be…
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A Formula To Help People Feel Seen And Heard
Your presence is the most important gift you can give someone in crisis. In suicide support I used to struggle not to give my opinions, values, judgements or beliefs. Thousands of crisis calls have shown me when I’m truly present with someone I can tune out all the ‘noise’ and listen to what matters to…
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Ultimate Beginner’s Guide To Overcoming Resistance
Defining Resistance I think of resistance like a chill. Imagine with me the absence of heat. The wrong kind of stillness. The more resistance we have the more frozen we become. Frozen by our fears. By our judgements. By inaction. Here are some examples of what resistance looks like. I really want to apologise but…
