Pamela Morris-Perez: Suicide Prevention and Hope

Everything Happens with Kate Bowler

Everything Happens Studios

Health & Fitness, Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture

4.8 • 4.7K Ratings

🗓️ 16 April 2024

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Here on the Everything Happens Podcast we don’t shy away from difficult subjects, and today’s episode tackles a topic we’ve been wanting to discuss for awhile—suicide among teens and young adults. My guest today, Dr. Pamela Morris-Perez is someone who approaches this subject with the heart of a grieving mom and the mind of a professor and practitioner who wants to make change possible and wants to teach us how we can help. This is such an important conversation on how communities can help prevent adolescent suicide.

In this conversation, Kate and Pamela discuss:

Poignant reflections on being a suicide loss survivor from a parent who is grieving the loss of her child—a topic so rarely discussed
Why we say “died by suicide”
How we can prevent teen suicide—including what signs to look for, what to ask, and next steps to take when you’re concerned

In a very important way, this episode won’t create nearly as much anxiety as you think. Talking about suicide is one of the most important ways of making it less likely. So let’s find better language together, shall we?

If you need to talk to someone, call or text 988. If you are worried about someone, you too can call or text 988 to get resources. Remember: you matter. Please listen with care.

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0:00.0	This episode of Everything Happens is brought to you by booking.
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0:11.7	This episode is sponsored in part by the Fetzer Institute.
0:15.0	Despite the time and money were pouring into policy reform to address society's biggest challenges,
0:22.0	how much progress are we making really?
0:24.8	The Fetzer Institute believes in cultivating ancient wisdom traditions to tackle today's
0:29.5	problems.
0:30.9	Fetzer is catalyzing a movement of leaders and funders who are applying a wide variety of faith-based and spiritual solutions to the world's toughest challenges.
0:40.0	Learn more about how to bring faith and spirituality back into the conversation at fetzer.org.
0:47.0	Just a heads up, today's conversation is about suicide.
0:51.0	This is such an important conversation on how communities can help prevent adolescent suicide.
0:57.0	If you need to talk to someone, call or text 988.
1:02.0	If you are worried about someone, you too can call or text 988 to get resources.
1:08.0	Remember, you matter. Please listen with care. Hello, my dears. I'm Kate Bowler, and you know that here on the Everything Happens
1:21.7	podcast, we don't shy away from difficult subjects.
1:25.8	And today's episode tackles a topic my team and I have been wanting to discuss for such
1:30.3	a long time.
1:31.9	Suicide among teens and young adults. Okay, I know this is a really devastating
1:38.4	reality for so many, and immediately it can make us feel afraid or helpless or want to stick our head in the sand.
1:48.0	We rarely talk about suicide loss, including parenting in that loss or how to bridge the connection
1:55.6	with friends who are grieving the loss of their kids.
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