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Category: Risk Factors

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Even in Our Darkness

  • by Bruce Rickard
  • Posted on October 29, 2025

‘We all have our times of darkness when our circumstances are difficult, with no idea…

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Three Proven Ways to Encourage Positive Thoughts

  • by Bruce Rickard
  • Posted on April 29, 2025

Our minds are like a kaleidoscope of thoughts, ever changing. Some thoughts are honourable, some…

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What Factors Prompt Men to Consider Suicide

  • by Bruce Rickard
  • Posted on September 21, 2024

Blake Roberts was 17 years old when he attempted suicide. At the time, he was…

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On the Brink of Everything

  • by Bruce Rickard
  • Posted on July 19, 2024

Parker J Palmer was born in Chicago on February 28, 1939, and grew up in…

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The Unfinished Life

  • by Bruce Rickard
  • Posted on April 30, 2024May 2, 2024

We recently visited ‘The Wall’ in the central highlands of Tasmania. The location of The…

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Thin Places

  • by Bruce Rickard
  • Posted on September 14, 2023September 20, 2023

Our identity is often forged by experiences we would never choose – a dysfunctional family,…

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The Prison Journals – George Cardinal Pell

  • by Bruce Rickard
  • Posted on September 8, 2022

On March 13, 2019, George Cardinal Pell was sentenced to six years in jail for…

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The Coming

  • by Bruce Rickard
  • Posted on December 11, 2021December 12, 2021

‘OMICRON IS COMING.’ That was the headline that captured my attention, that filled me with…

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Drama on the O’Keefe Rail Trail

  • by Bruce Rickard
  • Posted on October 29, 2021

How fear can derail our life: This story, although not entirely factual, has a smattering…

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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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Bruce Rickard

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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