#ALCHEMY
Suicide-Proofing Your Kids
By teaching them healthier ways to relate to their big emotions.
TW: Suicide
I know far too many people who’ve lost the battle with suicide.
In every single case, that person lost their life when they faced some combination of stressful circumstances, a build-up of unexpressed (or unexpressible) emotions, a disconnect of their mental well-being, and the inability or lack of capability to be able to, or allow themselves to, reach out for help in their darkest hour.
Like an implosion, the automatic response of running from the pain we have managed to unintentionally cultivate so well in the “developed, modern world,” has turned into some folks running off the cliff of life itself.
While you can’t ever really fully “suicide-proof” your kids, you as a parent or mentor can do a hell of a lot of good preventative work — by teaching your kid how to feel and process their emotions — even when they are painful.
You and I can rewrite the story around how we educate our children about some subtler mechanics of how the human experience has evolved to work. With the advent of the internet, and all the information of the last few centuries available to us on a little box we carry around in our pocket —…
