Hey guys, welcome to Privy Alliance podcast.

This is Sarah and I'm back with Whitney.

And before we dive in,

I'm gonna give you guys a trigger warning.

Today's topic is about maternal suicide and suicide and awareness.

This is actually World Suicide Prevention Day awareness

month and week.

September 10th is the exact date,

but it's a really important conversation to have.

So if you have little ears listening,

probably not the best time, or if this is triggering to you

and find yourself filling in the situation,

Whitney will help guide us through that

in the later part. But welcome Whitney and let's. and as someone who has had these hard conversations of asking someone and broaching the topic of if they are thinking about harming themselves or if someone

someone has a history of harming themselves.

Let's just jump right in.

How do you get past or tell people or advise?

Because I mean, you see teenagers you see you you see families of

someone who may be expressing self-harm thoughts or have had a history how do we

get comfortable with this conversation how do we ask someone are they having these thoughts and more

importantly what do we do with that conversation if they are honest and say yes.

So really good questions and of course it's multifaceted because we're people and everything is multifaceted.

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