Suicide Prevention Day Message 2024

If you've been following the work if the Great Aussie Pubs team you would know we are on a mission to create a community of Pub Whisperers across the country who can assist people with their mental health in times of suicidal crisis.

Today, on World Suicide Prevention Day it's a great reminder that when suicide is no longer an option, healing work is.

When we've surpassed the threat of immediate death at our own hands, there is a door way to another world that is being shown to us.

Once upon a time those triggers that brought us to suicide ideation were called anger, rage, regret, resentment, hurt, loss, abandonment, loneliness, guilt and shame.

At it's very core, they are either misery or overwhelm. Or both.

Chances were that we could not even name them at the time.

Sometimes we were so neck deep in misery that finding the words to name our feelings were virtually impossible.

Talking about those feelings, with loved ones, someone we can trust or in places that we feel safe, helps us to name them.

And by naming them we can gain clarity on what we can do to feel better.

This process is commonly called "healing trauma".

It's the new buzz word in the world of mental health and it shows us how far we have come with our awareness of the issues that affect our mental wellbeing.

Here's the process of how to successfully deal with suicide ideation, in order to heal our feelings of sadness or overwhelm:
First we should not shame it.
Instead we must name it.
The feeling, that is.
The negative feeling that sits within our bodies, causing us grief and suffering.
So much so, that we do not want to continue on with this life. Because we have hit our limit of suffering.
We name it, so that we can bring clarity to why we feel suicidal.
So that we can make the necessary changes in our life to heal from that experience or trauma causing it.
This is done by sharing it and having our words witnessed, whether it's with a suicide prevention helpline or a friend.
Then making just one small regular step to repair it.
The experience of suicide ideation ultimately shows us what we no longer need in our life. What is causing us extreme discomfort.
If we can't feel it, name it, accept it, abandon or move on from it, then we cannot repair or heal it.
Our bodies are a temple and they store within it these unresolved traumas.
As long as our bodies are caught in the feeling of grief, and we are not bringing the reason for the trauma and suffering to light, speaking it, having it witnessed and then making one small step to repair it - then we are not able to change these suicidal thoughts.

Knowledge is power. Suicidal thoughts are leading us on a journey. So that we can choose differently.

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