Light in the Darkness: Finding Hope During Suicide Awareness Month

Calm it Down

Chad Lawson

Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.8 • 678 Ratings

🗓️ 10 September 2024

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

Have you ever felt completely overwhelmed by life's challenges? In this episode of "Let's Calm it Down," we'll talk about finding hope, even when everything feels hopeless. September is Suicide Awareness Month, and this episode is dedicated to those moments when you're searching for light in the darkest times. We'll explore how even the smallest glimmer of hope can be a powerful guide, and how sometimes hope shows up in unexpected places. With warmth and understanding, I'll remind you that your own light can brighten not only your path but also the world around you. Listen in, and let's rekindle that inner spark together, helping you become a light for yourself and others as we Calm it Down in 3…2…1.

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0:00.0	Have you ever been in complete darkness?
0:03.0	Like the kind where you can't even see your own hand in front of your face?
0:08.0	It's overwhelming, right?
0:10.0	Especially when it's somewhere that's maybe not familiar,
0:13.0	but even more so when it is somewhere unfamiliar.
0:16.0	It feels like that darkness has swallowed you whole,
0:19.0	and the more you struggle to see, the more you feel lost.
0:24.1	But then something shifts.
0:28.0	A flicker, a tiny glimmer of light.
0:31.0	Maybe a from a distant star or a small firefly in the night.
0:36.4	I mean, it's faint.
0:37.7	Don't get me wrong, but it's there.
0:41.6	And in that moment, something within you changes.
0:46.1	You realize you're not as lost as you thought.
0:50.4	The darkness isn't as all-consuming as it once seemed.
0:55.9	The light, however, it gave you some hope.
1:00.6	So today, we're going to find some hope.
1:05.8	Today, we're going to find some light in the darkness.
1:16.6	As we find hope in life's hardest moments. I'm Chad Lawson and let's comment down in three, two, one.
1:35.3	Life can sometimes feel like that overwhelming darkness, right? There are moments when the weight of our struggles and our pain and our doubts and they
1:39.3	can feel so heavy that we can't even see a wave forward.
1:43.3	But it's in these moments that we need to remember the power of that tiny flicker of light.
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