Feed Your Mind: Hope and Suicide - Helping People Stay Alive

This unique lecture series transforms our library into a classroom and all of us into students as professors from the University of Denver lead us on an exploration of "hope." Each month, a different professor will explore hope through the lens of their work and scholarship. You will have the opportunity to learn about their ideas and perspectives, ask questions, and share your thoughts. Together, we will develop new understandings of hope it in this complicated and challenging world.    

The topic for February is:

Hope and Suicide: Helping People Stay Alive
Stacey Freedenthal, PhD

Few things are more stressful than knowing – or worrying – that someone you love thinks of ending their own life. You desperately want to help, and you have your own stress to deal with, too. In this talk, Dr. Freedenthal will cover different aspects of supporting someone with suicidal thoughts, both how to help someone stay safe and ways to engender hope. This talk is based on Dr. Freedenthal’s book Loving Someone with Suicidal Thoughts: What Family, Friends, and Partners Can Say and Do.