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3 Tips For If A Friend Answers ‘No, I’m Not Okay’
I still remember the first time I said ‘no, I’m not ok’. I took a risk and put myself out there. My friend looked at me weirdly, told me they were sorry and awkwardly escaped… Hopefully these 3 tips help you out if you’re in their shoes. 1 >> Listen to your body. Sometimes we…
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Understand These 2 Modes To Be Better In A Crisis
Urgency requires response, but triggers reaction. Reactions like: Your heart rate spikes Your breathing gets shorter Your stomach plummets Your thoughts start racing (oh shit is this really happening right now) After many years, my heart rate still jumps when urgency comes knocking. I have to remind myself it’s ok! These feelings are there to…
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Save Lives With Better Support By Responding Not Reacting
‘Signals’ come from the person we’re helping – ‘noise’ comes from within. Years in crisis support has shown me suicide prevention is less about what I say and more about what I hear. This may seem obvious but I used to find it super challenging! Reason being: ‘noise’ is very convincing. You can probably relate:…
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Responsibility To Increase Ease + Quality Of Your Suicide Support
The biggest barrier to developing non-judgement is the burden of self awareness Learning to hold non-judgemental space for people can be incredibly uncomfortable and confronting. This discomfort begins with self discovery. Its clear we need to let go of our biases, judgements and even the roles we think we have to play (and therefore our…
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How ‘Noise’ Distracts You From Really Hearing Young People
I’m about to tell you how you’re the roadblock, but why should you listen to me? Listening to young people can be tough, I would know because I gave countless adults that exact grief as they tried and failed to ‘listen’. I was forced by my school to see counsellors and had a reputation for…
