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The Sneaky Wisdom of Failure
About 15 years ago, I promised a publisher I’d write a book called Suicide Assessment and Intervention for Social Workers. We signed a contract. And I wrote. For many hours, day and night, I wrote. For more than 200 pages, I wrote. And then, inscrutably, words became...
10 Self-Care Tips for Psychotherapists (& Anyone Else Who’s Stressed)
People often ask me how I manage to study, teach, treat, talk, and write about suicidality nearly every day, without despair or hopelessness crippling me. In case it’s helpful to you, here’s self-care advice I put together, based on my own experiences. Talk...
Not (Always) Speaking of Suicide
I started my first blog, Speaking of Suicide, in 2013. It really took off, and it’s received more than 6 million views and 9,000 comments from readers. In this new blog, I won’t talk about suicide much. Not because suicide is bad or taboo or anything like that,...
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