Guest Post by Cherise Young Breaking the Silence: A Compassionate Look at Suicide Prevention Two years after September was first deemed National Suicide Prevention Awareness Month, I led my first suicide prevention training. What I discovered was eye-opening: the concept of suicide as a preventable public health matter was foreign and even uncomfortable for many….
Tag: Death and Dying
Holding Space for Grief
Guest Post by Cherise Young Around this time in recent years, I’ve found myself reflecting deeply on loss and grief. In 2020, I wrote about feeling weary from the global pandemic – the isolation, collective loss, and traumatic experiences that seemed to permeate every aspect of our lives. But 2022 brought a different kind of…