Suicide Awareness
- lachelleenright4
- Sep 5
- 2 min read
September is Suicide Awareness Month. I personally learned about death by suicide as a child at 10 years old. I was awakened in the middle of the night by my family members in the dark hallway near my bedroom whispering rapidly and with a roller coaster tone of heightened emotion. My brother who was 22 at the time had shot himself in the right temple and was dead.
That sudden heartbreak jolted my family and challenged my parent’s faith. How does someone reach a point of despair so heavy the weight of considering taking their own life, and in his case leaving his two small children behind, lose to decision.
"Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom." - Viktor Frankl
A Life In Continual Enlightenment stands on the ground that we can regain our power to the false or past realities we can sometimes hang onto by pairing intention with action. By placing trust in ourselves and the process of allowing time to naturally unfold we bring the opportunity for growth to the surface. Recognizing where we have been and the patterns that may lead us to the same result is monumental in our behaviors surrounding expectations.
"The wound is the place where the Light enters you." - Rumi
In my career history watching the data stack of candid responses from thousands of outbound calls to fill quotas and build charts that told a story sometimes the end client didn’t want to see, the learning curves of real life shows us the same one. As consumers or constructors of our own lives we have the choice each day to find our purpose: To qualify for our own life on our terms, to answer open ended responses without fear of speaking too much or uncertainty, and to embrace the silver lining that comes after perceived failure.
"What we don't need in the midst of struggle is shame for being human." - Brené Brown
In memory of Rory Dee Andreasen.
🩷 /LaChelle
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