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Author: Bruce Rickard

Reflections on Suicide and Staying Alive: My son's suicide changed everything. I felt an obligation to understand why anyone would want to end their life. My regular blog posts explore the causes and prevalence of suicide and what is needed to sustain a healthy mind and a hope-filled future.
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Living With Hope and Despair

  • by Bruce Rickard
  • Posted on September 23, 2021

Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic people have vacillated between hope and despair. It has felt like…

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The Prolonged Effect of COVID-19 on Suicide Rates

  • by Bruce Rickard
  • Posted on September 10, 2021September 10, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic is forcing us to re-evaluate our response to mental health as the…

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The Sunset Limited: A Conversation Between Two Strangers About the Meaning of Life

  • by Bruce Rickard
  • Posted on August 25, 2021September 8, 2021

The Sunset Limited, written by acclaimed author Cormac McCarthy, is described as a novel in…

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Finding Your Sense of Identity

  • by Bruce Rickard
  • Posted on August 11, 2021

The Cambridge dictionary defines identity as ‘who a person is or the qualities of a…

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C. S. Lewis on Walking, Writing, and Washing Dishes

  • by Bruce Rickard
  • Posted on July 28, 2021July 29, 2021

Clive Staples Lewis was born on 29th November 1898, in Belfast, Ireland (Northern Ireland today),…

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How to Negotiate Major Life Changes

  • by Bruce Rickard
  • Posted on July 13, 2021July 14, 2021

Heraclitus was born in Ephesus in the 6th century BCE. He was a Greek philosopher…

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Keeping the Faith When All the Birds Have Flown Away

  • by Bruce Rickard
  • Posted on June 24, 2021

Birds are regular visitors to our front garden. This morning, there were six Red-rumped Parrots…

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In Search of Happiness

  • by Bruce Rickard
  • Posted on June 11, 2021

Eddie Jaku is a survivor. At one hundred and one years of age he is…

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Life After Suicide

  • by Bruce Rickard
  • Posted on May 28, 2021July 13, 2021

Have you ever thought what a panorama of your life might look like, how life…

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The Suicidal Crisis

  • by Bruce Rickard
  • Posted on May 13, 2021

Suicide is one of those social realities we cannot ignore. It has the potential to…

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Reflections on Suicide and Staying Alive: My son's suicide changed everything. I felt an obligation to understand why anyone would want to end their life. My regular blog posts explore the causes and prevalence of suicide and what is needed to sustain a healthy mind and a hope-filled future.

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