# 188 - Ruth & Kelly

Wife of the Party

Berty Boy Productions

Self-improvement, Education, Comedy Interviews, Comedy

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 9 September 2021

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Today, I sit down with my friends Ruth and Kelly to talk about suicide and suicide prevention. Ruth and Kelly have both lost a parent to suicide and they share their experience, advice for depression, anxiety, and much more! For more information about Kelly’s play you can go to http://www.alightindarkplaces.org Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/alightindarkplaces For more information about Ruth's Documentary you can go to http://www.thesilentgoldens.com If you or someone you know is experiencing suicidal thoughts or actions, go to https://afsp.org Our next book club will be “The Push” by Ashley Audrain. Check out the new Wife of the Party Facebook groups here: http://www.facebook.com/pg/wifeotp/gr... I have WOTP merch! You can buy a brand new Wife of the Party mug, shirt, or a tote bag at http://www.wifeotp.com If you have any questions you would like me to answer on the podcast feel free to email me from my website at http://www.wifeotp.com Don't forget to subscribe, rate, and review the podcast! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	today on Wife of the Party. I have my friend Ruth back because September is suicide prevention
0:05.6	month. We did a podcast last September with her friend Ann Marie about suicide prevention
0:10.5	and resources. And this year for suicide prevention month, Ruth brought her friend Kelly, who
0:16.7	produces an evening of plays at the Stella Adler Theatre here in Los Angeles. This year,
0:23.3	the plays are running from September 10th to the 19th again at the Stella Adler Theatre.
0:29.4	If you'd like information, her website is alightandarkplaces.org. And if you'd like tickets
0:35.5	to the show, the link to that is alightandarkplaces.eventbrite.com. This episode is dropping the day before
0:44.6	her first show. So again, suicide prevention month. So the plays that Kelly produces have to do with
0:54.2	suicide. And it's meant for survivors, obviously, to come and watch every Saturday night. There's
1:00.8	a Q&A with Ruth about suicide prevention. They offer tons of resources for people. And I think
1:08.4	they really offer a service to our community here in LA for people who have survived suicide
1:16.0	to process that in a public slash private forum. Because public being with a group of people who
1:23.6	probably have had a similar experience to you. And at the same time, you can just sit quietly and
1:29.0	watch other people's experiences in a short play form. What an amazing manifestation
1:38.9	of goodness out of tragedy. It's very brave to take something as tragic as losing a parent
1:47.2	from suicide and trying to turn it into good for other people. So I really commend Kelly for
1:52.6	doing that. I wish that this play were on YouTube. But unfortunately, it is an equity stage that
2:01.3	is regulated by equity, which is a union for stage performers. So she cannot release this on YouTube
2:09.5	unfortunately. But maybe someday. So if you're in LA and you have any interest, Stella Adletheater,
2:17.6	September 10th through 19th. And all the information is at a light and darkplaces.org.
2:23.7	I was so grateful that she came and talked to me today. I learned again more about depression
2:29.9	and about suicide and about how people who have survived this have to process suicide and how they
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