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"Recognition of Humanity should be the central focus of Human Existence" ~ Paulo Freire
"I dream of a world where I can lay my vulnerabilities out there, open for everyone, until they are my strengths. I am longing for this."
Harper Steele
If you are feeling suicidal you are NEVER alone... JUST dial 988
If you are feeling suicidal you are NEVER alone... JUST dial 988
Or Click Here for a link to their website and talk/text links or click the logo at left.
WARNING!!!
The Trump Administration cut funding for the
specific LGBTQ+ part of the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline
Beginning in JULY 2025
If you are LGBTQ+, you will not receive the quality of the previous (specialized and appropriate) support through the 988 line and will be better supported by calling or texting other crisis support lines
Here are some options for other LGBTQ+ Suicide and Crisis support:
The Trevor Project: Offers crisis intervention and suicide prevention services for LGBTQ young people (ages 13-24). They provide a lifeline (1-866-488-7386), text support (Text START to 678-678), and online chat, available 24/7.
Trans Lifeline: A peer support hotline run by and for transgender people, offering direct emotional and financial support, available 24/7. The US number is 1-877-565-8860 and the Canadian number is 1-877-330-6366.
LGBT National Hotline: Provides peer counseling, information, and resources for callers of all ages. Available Monday-Friday, 4pm - 12am ET and Saturday, 12pm - 5pm ET at 1-888-843-4564.
LGBT National Youth Talkline: Specifically for youth up to age 25, offering information, support, and local resources. Available Monday-Friday, 4pm - 12am ET and Saturday, 12pm - 5pm ET at 1-800-246-7743.
*** The page below is a MUST read for anyone living with/experiencing Suicidal Ideation - and for anyone who loves or cares about them ***
WOW! The information offered on this page is truly VITAL information for anyone living with Suicidal Ideation, as well as, anyone who loves or cares for someone who experiences Suicidal Ideation. If you want to understand the psychological reasons underlying this feeling, you will want to read this. The insight it gives can help to not only better understand suicidal ideation, but also, to develop more effective ways of supporting yourself or someone you love who lives with it.
Basic Info on Living with Suicidal Ideation
Basic Info on Living with Suicidal Ideation
Toxic Positivity: What is it and How to Avoid it?
Toxic Positivity: What is it and How to Avoid it?
What is toxic positivity? How do people engaging in toxic positivity impact people who are struggling with any issue? Learn how to identify and avoid toxic positivity in yourself and in others. Additionally this discusses what to say to people who approach you with toxic positivity.
Beware the Grifters!
Beware the Grifters!
Grifters abound in the "healing" profession and community. Watch this video for some information on how to avoid those who are preying on your vulnerability, pain, suffering, difficulty and/or struggle. Be CAUTIOUS with your heart, mind and psyche - treat it with the care it deserves with choosing who you work with.
This information is NOT a replacement for Therapy, Meditation or Medical Treatment
This information is NOT a replacement for Therapy, Meditation or Medical Treatment
My 2025 NMI Level Three Certification
Small Research Project
Comparing Two Interventions To Reduce Activation Through Accessing the Vagus Nerve
Go to the Begin Here page through the link above for more videos and information about the brain, as well as, other helpful info not on this page.
Your Lizard Brain: Robert Sapolsky
Your Lizard Brain: Robert Sapolsky
Search him on YouTube and watch his Stanford Lectures... as many as you can.
Robert Sapolsky on Depression
Robert Sapolsky on Depression
Because Depression is often connected with Suicidal Ideation
The Science of Trauma & Grief
The Science of Trauma & Grief
Working with a Therapist is Vital to Living with Suicidal Ideation
Working with a Therapist is Vital to Living with Suicidal Ideation
Therapists can help you navigate the ebbs and flows of suicidal ideation. They can also help you to explore and understand the root of your experience, especially when related to any trauma. Therapists can help you strengthen and develop your tethers to the living and your commitment to them. Therapists help you keep yourself on the rails and help you get back there when you de-rail. They are a lifeline, and a guide for you, through this difficult journey of coming to manage your suicidal ideation.
Licensed and experienced therapists are the only ones qualified to really work with the experience of suicidal ideation. If you don't have one, find one through the link below.
Turning to therapists is an act of self love and an act of keeping your promise to those who love you.
Created and Verified by Psychology Today
Simply enter your zip code and it will narrow down licensed therapists in your area. You can filter by focus of practice, insurance accepted, info on the therapist (education, years in practice), type of therapy practiced (ie: family systems therapy, EMDR, CBT, DBT etc...), specialties, as well as, other helpful information.
Most insurance companies have a list of Therapists they cover in your area and by telehealth.
This website has SO many AMAZING resources, which are broken down in clear and usable ways, to help you that is safe and inclusive.
This link takes you to the crisis section of a page, which has very important info, but also has more info if you scroll up. There you will find links to finding whatever resource you need.
Know Your ACES Score
Know Your ACES Score
Click HERE for a link to the original test and the one considered most used by therapists to determine childhood trauma. This is an important thing for you to know about yourself.
The Vagus Nerve & Polyvagal Theory
What is the Vagus Nerve & Why Should you Learn About it?
What is the Vagus Nerve & Why Should you Learn About it?
Go to the Vagus Nerve and Polyvagal Theory Page for Images, Links and More Information
Go to the pages below for more information, tools and meditations for each:
My Favorite Neuro-Tools for Living with Suicidal Ideation:
Tools for Increasing Inner Safety
What is Safety REALLY?
This NeuroMeditation anchors you into your stable, rooted self using the vagus nerve; balances the mind through bi-laterall focus and bi-lateral touch
Music: Vagus Nerve Stimulation by Narayanjot Records on YouTube
Use this meditation to balance the mind, increase focus and attention, and most importantly to interrupt the signaling from the amygdala so that you can bring your system into CALM. This is my version of one from the NMI page on insight timer and also on this page.
Music: Powerful Meditation Music for Concentration and Focus by Meditation and Healing on YouTube
Preparation for the Cave of Safety & Creating YOURS
The system responds and can return to calm when you send it messages of safety. This meditation is helpful for that, or whenever you need a barrier to the world, a deep sense of safety, unconditional love and support, or when you are doing difficult work. Practicing often can help restore a sense of safety.
Music: Golden Blossom - Tranquil Flute by Buddha’s Lounge on YouTube
Tools for Increasing:
Awareness of State/Interoception
Sense of Strength and Being Anchored in Your Strength
Compassion for Self and Others
This meditation guides you through shifting your attention inward to: build connection with self and body; increase awareness of, and ability to listen to, information coming from your body which can help you begin to tune into what state your nervous system is in and to assess effectiveness of interventions
Music: Krishna’s Healing Power by Buddha’s Lounge on YouTube
This focus meditation uses imagery of the tree of life; drawing energy up from your roots and down from your limbs and leaves, allowing them to mingle, grow and connect you with the vitality of life.
Music: Golden Blossom by Buddha’s Lounge on YouTube
This meditation guides you through increasing love and compassion for yourself. Observe yourself and how the experiences of life have impacted you. Through the lens of love, connect with both giving and receiving whatever is needed, fostering and growing your compassion and understanding for yourself.
Music: Healing Mother by Buddha’s Lounge on YouTube
This meditation anchors you in your strong, immoveable center and allows you to rest in strength as you observe all thought, feeling and sensation that arises
Music: Bamboo Garden by Buddha’s Flute
This meditation is the basis and foundation of Open Heart meditations. It increases love and compassion for self and others.
Music: Peaceful Garden by Buddha’s Lounge on YouTube
This meditation aids you in accepting and facing the unknown through connecting with your core immovable self and anchoring into your strength.
Music: Calm Mountains by Fantasia Echoes
This meditation can be helpful when you feel pulled in opposite directions or the splitting experience arising from what seems to be conflicting thoughts, feelings, or sensations. By helping you stretch and expand the meditation this supports you so that you don’t have to pick either/or, and rather can hold BOTH things.
Music: Krishna’s Harmonious Flute by Buddha’s Lounge
The Net of Indra & Ouroboros as Symbols of Connection
The Net of Indra & Ouroboros as Symbols of Connection
Weave yourself INTO life
This Open Heart meditation increases the felt sense of being woven into the very fabric of life
Music: Village Love Story by Buddha’s Lounge on YouTube
The Law of Kindness for Connection and Compassion
The Law of Kindness
The Law of Kindness
Living by the Law of Kindness increases our feelings of connection with, and compassion for, ourselves and others. Incorporating this law into your life will help you be more gentle with yourself. It helps you and helps the world!
Turning to Nature and Awe
This meditation uses imagery of being both the single rooted tree AND the entire forest to Open the Heart and increase connection
Music: Morning Flute Music - New Day by Buddha’s Flute on YouTub
The Importance of AWE & Wonder
The Importance of AWE & Wonder
Meditation for Connecting with Awe
Awe is beneficial for everyone, especially when dealing with anything difficult. Do this often - even for a couple minutes when you are stressed/overwhelmed/hurting. This meditation guides you through remembering, with all of your senses, an experience of being in a place where you FELT AWE
Music: Village Love Story by Buddha’s Flute on YouTube
Get INTO Nature
Get INTO Nature
Various Ways to Access Nature: Especially When You Can't Get There
Various Ways to Access Nature: Especially When You Can't Get There
Finding Special Places in Nature & Being Safe
Finding Special Places in Nature & Being Safe
When You Need Your Mind to Get QUIETER
Various Routes to Quiet the Mind
Various Routes to Quiet the Mind
This meditation uses space imagery to quiet the mind for sleep. Using both the darkness between all things in space and its vast neverending expansiveness.
Music: 8 Hour Hans Zimmer Time Cover by Cozy Sleep Sounds on YouTube
This meditation connects you with being like a tree and then slowly to the feeling of being the entire, vast and expansive forest
Music: Relaxing Flute Falling Leaves by Buddha’s Lounge on YouTube
This focus meditation uses imagery of the tree of life; drawing energy up from your roots and down from your limbs and leaves, allowing them to mingle, grow and connect you with the vitality of life.
Music: Golden Blossom by Buddha’s Lounge on YouTube
When Your Suicidal Ideation is Connected to Grief
When Your Suicidal Ideation is Connected to Loss from Suicide
When Your Suicidal Ideation is Connected to Loss from Suicide
This meditation is pretty self explanatory. It can offer some sense of soothing to the pain.
Music: Listen to the Flute’s Lament by Buddha’s Lounge on YouTube
This meditation supports you in expanding yourself as you hold both your joys and your sorrows.
Music: Buddha’s Flute - Healing Mother by Buddha’s Lounge
For more information on using the various styles go to each page on the Four Styles page.
For other helpful information about using NueroTools for nervous system regulation, go to the Begin Here page.
If Your Suicidal Ideation is Connected to Depression - Go to the Depression Page
When Your Suicidal Ideation is Connected to Guilt or Regret
This meditation gently guides you through sitting with your deep regrets and assists you in allowing and receiving the balm of self forgiveness
Music: Dive into Tranquility by Buddha’s Flute on YouTube
My Favorite NeuroMeditations from the NMI for living with SI
For the Meditations Below Follow These Steps if You Haven't Yet:
For the Meditations Below Follow These Steps if You Haven't Yet:
Download the Insight Timer app
**Preferably to your phone so you can access whenever needed**
Open the NeuroMeditation Institute page within the app and select the Follow Button for ease of finding them in the future
When you click the links for the meditations below be sure to bookmark them for easier and quicker access for future use.
I use this when I need to interrupt my amygdala. This is commonly part of any activation of suicidal ideation. I also use it to avert activation when I can feel it coming on.
Choiceless Awareness: Quiet Mind
I use this when I need to quiet my mind, to step back and gain perspective. It empowers you to observe your feelings versus feeling as consumed by them.
This meditation has helped me to understand myself through stepping into the observer; it helps you see your experience as one of a feeling that can ebb an flow.
When Your Child is Experiencing Suicidal Ideation
"Nature LOVES Variety & Societies Hate Variety"
Milton Diamond
Read the article below!
WOW! The information offered on this page is truly VITAL information for anyone living with Suicidal Ideation, as well as, anyone who loves or cares for someone who experiences Suicidal Ideation. If you want to understand the psychological reasons underlying this feeling, you will want to read this. The insight it gives can help to not only better understand suicidal ideation, but also, to develop more effective ways of supporting yourself or someone you love who lives with it.
When Your Child is Experiencing Suicidal Ideation
When Your Child is Experiencing Suicidal Ideation
From a Mother Who Knows the Risk: My strongest recommendation for parents of LGBTQ children
From a Mother Who Knows the Risk: My strongest recommendation for parents of LGBTQ children
Tips for Parents of LGBTQ+ Children in Conservative Areas & Those Who CARE About Protecting Them
Tips for Parents of LGBTQ+ Children in Conservative Areas & Those Who CARE About Protecting Them
After losing my daughter Lily to suicide when she was 13, I created this website to help other parents, teachers and schools, and people who care.
The Facts About Gender
Brain Gender
Transgender Neurobiology
The Neurobiology of Trans-Sexuality
When Your Suicidal Ideation (or that of someone you care about) is Impacted by the World's LACK of Understanding Gender
"Nature LOVES Variety & Societies Hate Variety"
Milton Diamond
The Facts About Gender
Transgender Neurobiology
Brain Gender
The Neurobiology of Trans-sexuality
Changing Ones: Third and Fourth Genders in Native North America
Changing Ones: Third and Fourth Genders in Native North America
by Will Roscoe
Ancient Bodies, Ancient Lives: Sex, Gender, and Archaeology
Ancient Bodies, Ancient Lives: Sex, Gender, and Archaeology
by Rosemary A Joyce
Temperament, Personality and Perception
What Temperament Are You?
What Temperament Are You?
Knowing what temperament you are at a base level can help you as you come to KNOW YOURSELF more fully.
We come into the world having a base temperament. This is our Nature. Who we are is comprised of this and our NURTURING or how we were nurtured. Understanding your nature can offer you amazing insight into yourself. Exploring the impacts of how you were nurtured or where you weren't allows you to see the story that is YOU. Our Nature can't be radically changed. However when we come to understand ourselves better we can gain the awareness to make choices which are in alignment with our nature so that our lives can feel more peaceful and fulfilling. It is part of learning to truly love, accept and respect yourself and the WONDER which you ARE! No one is the same as us... we are connected and can have shared experiences, but the internal world that is us is something which is as unique as our fingerprint.
When surviving loss from Suicide, understanding yourself more fully can help as you find your way to be in the world with this loss and how much that impacts our sense of self, of purpose and so finding our way forward. When you feel like you have shattered into a million pieces, re-acquainting yourself with the root essence of who you are can help you feel your ground as you come back together in a new way.
Why Understanding Your Personality is Helpful
Why Understanding Your Personality is Helpful
Click Above for the link to the FREE survey!
Take time to answer the questions slowly and honestly for accuracy. They offer a breakdown of a buttload of very interesting and helpful information that can help you gain insight into yourself.
Why Perception Matters - Redefining Yours
Why Perception Matters - Redefining Yours
Remember to go to the BEGIN HERE page and Other Helpful Resources page for more helpful information, tools, and book recommendations which can be helpful for living with Suicidal Ideation. Also explore the What Does it Help? page for more specific information to other issues you may face in conjunction with Suicidal Ideation.
Books and videos I find Particularly Helpful
Focusing by Eugene Gendlin
Emotional Intelligence by Daniel Goleman
The Myth of Normal by Gabor Mate
See the YouTube Video with him about it.
The Body Keeps The Score by Bessel Van der Kolk
The Body Keeps The Score by Bessel Van der Kolk
Read this if you have had ANY trauma in your life or if you think it might be but you have suppressed it.
Robert Sapolsky's BEHAVE
Robert Sapolsky's BEHAVE
Determined Robert Sapolsky's new and truly exceptional book, especially if we consider and embrace its impact.
The Biology and Psychology of Depression
Just watch. You won't regret it.
Don't Underestimate the Depression
Although this video has some technical issues the information in it is very helpful and in a variety of ways.
Gabor Mate and the Myth of Normal
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