Episode 35: Inside Suicide Prevention Month Part 1

TRIGGER WARNING: there is discussion of suicide, suicidal thoughts and other issues around the topic of suicide.
Join Amanda as she talks with two amazing guests. She's joined by two great minds behind For Students, an organization dedicated to equipping students with tools for lifelong emotional health and suicide prevention. Whitney D'Allaird is a wife, mother first and also Executive Director of this amazing organization. And Ed Williams is a former teacher and student leader turned Programming Director with For Students.

Whitney and Ed share about the vision behind For Students and Whitney shares her family's story of loss of her beloved oldest son Tyler. She shares her pain, her grief and how ultimately this led her to start an organization in hopes that no parent would ever feel her pain again.

Amanda leads a discussion around coming myths of suicide—things like "no one will miss me, I'm a burden, and suicidal ideas are just a means to get attention"—to help people further understand the complexity behind a person's desire to take their own life.

Whitney and Ed offer insights into how they've had firsthand experience with students to help
More people understand how to face suicidal thoughts in themselves and loved ones in hopes that their pain can be met and transformed.

To learn more about Whitney and Ed's mission please visit www.ForStudents.org or Instagram @forstudentsclt

If you yourself are thinking of taking your own life, please right now call a trusted friend, call 988, AND text TALK to 741741. Yes, please do all 3!! Because we promise whatever thoughts your suicidal self are telling you are not true. You are a life worth saving and you deserve to hear that from at least 3 sources! And… keep fighting! You are not alone.