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When browsing our channel, we hope you will learn about mental health and resilience. Our mission is to continue to educate the community on taking care of our mental health and reducing stigma. By subscribing to our channel, you will find tools and resources to support your journey to living a resilient lifestyle.
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-Podcast episodes on resilience and wellness and learning about the impact of taking care of our mental health.
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The Resilient Purpose Podcast
#mentalhealth #hope #therapy #liveloveMOV #mentalhealthpodcast #resilience #health
When browsing our channel, we hope you will learn about mental health and resilience. Our mission is to continue to educate the community on taking care of our mental health and reducing stigma. By subscribing to our channel, you will find tools and resources to support your journey to living a resilient lifestyle.
Subscribe now for:
-Podcast episodes on resilience and wellness and learning about the impact of taking care of our mental health.
-short videos to find key points and information to support your learning.
-Coping skills to care for your mental health
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The Resilient Purpose Podcast
#mentalhealth #hope #therapy #liveloveMOV #mentalhealthpodcast #resilience #health
Sitting With A Positive Experience
This exercise focuses on combatting the negativity bias by spending time with our positive experience. Regardless of the positive experience we need to make sure that those experiences stick like velcro and not slide off like teflon. In this video you will reflect on a positive experience and spend time with it. This is a great way to change your outlook and mindset of yourself and the world as you can create balance by not just focusing on the negative.
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Finger Tap Breathing exercise
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Welcome to finger tap breathing. This is a great way to regulate through the use of tapping our thumb and index finger and follow a pattern all the way to your thumb and pinky while you take deep breaths. This is a great way to clear your mind and calm your body by adding coordinated movement with your breathing. Go as slow or fast as you feel comfortable with your finger tapping and enjoy the ...
Sun Breathing
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Sun Breathing is a great relaxation and calming technique that focus on the power of breathing, good belly breathing and the use of movement. Using multiple pathways (breath and movement) to regulation creates a strong regulation activity. Follow along to relaxation using Sun breathing.
Balloon Breathing (Youth Version)
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Balloon Breathing is a great way to regulate your mind and body. This activity combines visualization and breathing to efficiently and effectively calm yourself during times of stress. Follow along with Lilly and Doug as they show you this great activity to deal with stress.
Would You Rather TRP Podcast Promo
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Check out a clip from The Resilient Purpose Podcast discussing a would you rather scenario. Take a look and be sure to check out the full episode on UA-cam. Mark in the comments section what you would pick! Talk to the Dead or be Immortal?
TRP Podcast Ep 2 Gaming is Ruining Your Life
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Gaming is ruining your lif! Or is it. We look at the impact of gaming on mental health both positive and negative. Gaming is often a divisive topic especially around our mental health. Join Doug and Spencer as they discuss the dynamics of gaming and our mental health. Plus don't forget Doug and Spencer Regulate as we learn another way to self-regulate and build resilience. #Gaming #mentalhealth...
TRP Episode Promo: Learn to Regulate with Doug and Spencer!
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Promo of TRP episode with Doug and Spencer as they learn to regulate using finger trace breathing. Check out a partial clip of the activity.
Changing our Lens on Mental Health
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This episode is the return of The Resilient Purpose Podcast with hosts Doug and Spencer. Doug and Spencer discuss the impact of having a "disorder" and that maybe the lens for which we view mental health perpetuates the stigma rather than reduces it. What if we look at mental health struggles through the lens of injury and not disorder? Would we be more likely to focus on injury prevention or m...
TRP Podcast Episode 1 Promo #resilience #mentalhealth #overcomingadversity #wellness #podcast
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TRP Podcast is back and better than ever. Doug and Spencer are here to discuss all things mental health, resilience and wellness. Return back episode drops 10/17/22. Please like, comment and share.
What's in the Name? #resilience #mentalhealth #overcomingadversity
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Does your name have any impact on your personality, mental wellness or overall functioning? Learn how Doug's name has impacted him throughout his childhood.
Get to Know Doug and Spencer! #mentalhealth #resilience #overcomingadversity #sportsmentalhealth
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The Resilient Purpose Podcast is back! Get a small dose of our Get to Know Doug and Spencer Segment. Check out who Spencer would love to have as his first guest!
LSCI Training
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LSCI is a brain-based, trauma-informed, relationship-building verbal strategy that turns crisis situations into learning opportunities for young people who exhibit challenging behaviors. LSCI provides educators, counselors, social workers, psychologists, child & youth care workers, parents, and other caring adults with a systematic, 6-stage process to move from stress and conflict to insight an...
Breaking Down Barriers To First Responder Wellness
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Join host Douglas Pfeifer and guest Seth Munsey , First Responder Vet and Mental Health Advocate as they discuss the complexity of first responder wellness and break down the barriers to those prioritizing their health and wellness. Make sure to tune in and let us know what you think! #Resilient #Mentalwellness #firstresponder Want to learn more about the podcast or how to be a guest? Check out...
A Life Coach Approach To Addiction Recovery
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Join host Douglas Pfeifer and guest Tricia Parido as they discuss a life coach approach to addiction recovery. Make sure to tune in and let us know what you think! #Recovery #Resilient #Mentalwellness #Mindset Want to learn more about the podcast or how to be a guest? Check out our website in the link below ⬇️ www.theresilientpurpose.com
Can't be resilient without stress
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Join host Douglas Pfeifer and Expert contributor Janice Mcfarland as they discuss stress. This is not your typical episode about stress so be sure to tune in and let us know what you think! #Stress #Resilient #Mentalwellness #Mindset Want to learn more about the podcast or how to be a guest? Check out our website in the link below ⬇️ www.lifeandpurposedevelopment.com
Does COVID-19 increase your Mental Health Symptoms?
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Does COVID-19 increase your Mental Health Symptoms?
Using medication in a functional & effective way
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Using medication in a functional & effective way
Check out this quick summer burst with Doug
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Check out this quick summer burst with Doug
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'We were best friends-he was my first born'. That boy needed his own best friends..sometimes although they love their dads they want to grow in their own lives. Im sorry but I feel the father does not know how to include the wife in his grief..its all about him. For closure: some answers are looking at ourselves to.
I hate the suffering I caused. But you have to be happy that my suffering in my brain is gone and I'm resting hopefully with Jesus. I know you don't like suicide but hopefully he'll forgive me I don't know I'll put in work
I'm so sorry for your loss 😢. I lost my 14 year old son albeit not to suicide. I don't judge your son, suicide must take IMMENSE courage and it's a mental illness. Like cancer for example. I am having REAL issues with my religion and I hope that will pass. Thank you for sharing your stories. Respect and condolences 🙏🏻❤️. That is true "he didn't want you to talk him out of it", that's true. He had decided. I lost a best friend to suicide. Not the same as losing a child but I was angry he never came to me. He had never mentioned it. Someone told me then, he didn't want to be spoken out of it. Life is especially cruel 😔
Iam so sorry for your loss 😢! The blanket sometimes weighs a million tons in the morning.
To day I found out my son has so much depression,and stress I pray he gets help I pray he does not takes his own life
Awwww sorry 😞 prayers 💪 💕 🙏
I'm sorry to everyone in the comment that lost someone. ❤
I lost my little brother Darragh in 2012......there really is no such thing as closure...but somehow you learn to live again.... even when there are no answers......you learn to live again somehow because God wants that and wants you to know Darragh is at peace
988 Most men won’t call
I lost my daughter 1 year ago to suicide. It was a nightmare. A shocking news. When I heard my sister in the line saying please pray that Sam can survive. We taking her in the hospital. First I asked her who's Sam.? Then she said your daughter. She hang her self. I am shocked because I am thinking why she do that? I have so many questions in my head. Begging to the doctors do anything that can save live of my daughter. It's really painful coz she's only my girl. I have 2 kids but still it's painful😭 I don't know how to survive every day. It all happened when I was working in Taiwan. I'm a single mom.
I lost my 36 year old son on November 1. My husband, his dad died from cancer 24 years ago. My son issues started before his dad died because of bullying done to him in school and he felt his dad and I did not have his back and protect him. So when his dad died the next year, that devastated all of us and especially him, he was only 11. So for 24 years I’ve been the only parent and it seemed he😊 hated me, he blamed me for some really unrealistic things. So with time he withdrew from me and his siblings, but he was angry and pushed us away. Now he is gone and I don’t really know why, I only can guess the issues because he did not share his thoughts and feelings. He did start some texting with his older brother four days before his suicide. My older son added me to their texting conversation and it got really ugly, he was ugly to us and gave unreasonable reasons for hating us. The night before his suicide I text him and told him I loved him, I wasn’t mad and I wanted to help him. He responded with two nasty words and those were the last two words he ever communicated to me. He was so angry and cruel. It’s so hard now cause I’m still the only parent left to walk this road and my other two children have rallied around to help me, but I’m devastated, I can’t think of anything else.
I’m so sorry. Wishing I could give you a hug. ❤️
Wilma, I think your son was in extreme pain and sometimes (especially with men) they then STRIKE OUT before finally striking in and ending it all. All this does not excuse his behaviour, but at least it might explain a part of it. Sending you healing, Wilma 🤗!
I lost my son in 2019. The grief is unbearable. I actually had a neighbor tell me if I had done more my son would be alive today. He had no idea what I did. I moved so I would never have to see them again!
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Truly a comment from someone who has no idea!!I am so sorry for your loss. No one should ever say that to a parent that has lost a child. I’m glad you got away from such a toxic neighbour. ❤
I lost my son too, to suicide...I'm sorry that neighbor was so heartless. I've gotten careless comments also...I don't understand it...I just don't. It can happen to anybody. I live in a different realm of spirit since Michael's death...He was such a beautiful son, as I know all our children are beautiful!...I do have faith which helps, it doesn't take away the pain, but gives me hope I will one day see my son again, and in this process of faith I pray, and ask God to help me forgive those who can be insensitive...
Like an EMP attack on a local level. This can be.......
No one will miss me when I'm gone
I used their pain
i can hardly connect but im wasting away alone with grief i feel like ive seen what a saint would see in their lifetime its crazy
I don't want to live but I don't want to leave my loved ones in this state. I wish I could make them forget me entirely. I wish I could just fade away. I just want my pain to stop. I don't want to transfer it to my friends and family
My heart breaks for both of you....all I can say is I understand...I do.....I miss my son so much❤
PRIDE GOETH BEFORE THE FALL!
Kevin is 100% right about why his son didn't come to him. I've struggled many years with being suicidal off and on, and a big reason people don't reach out is they're afraid the option of suicide will be taken away from them. It's seen as an emergency relief lever in a way, a comfort or coping mechanism I guess, that thing that if gets bad enough you can get free of it.
I leave that option open when talking to a friend,if they try everything else to cope
Hello, tomorrow is the third anniversary of my son's suicide 12/28/20. So far I've listened to this video and the one about what to say and not to say. I think that you should rename this video the first 3 years after the death of a child or something like that. I still go through a lot of everything that you said in this video I don't like to say this but the second year after, you seem to thaw out a little more from being so numb at various times and the physical and emotional pain comes back and is just as bad as when you got that knock on the door and were informed that your child was deceased. My son wrote music and songs and played various guitars and dabbled with other musical instruments. I did not watch TV or listen to any radio music for approximately the first year and a half. I only listened to talk radio and it was mainly political, but kept my brain busy and kept me alive. My heart has literally been broken I've been diagnosed with several major heart problems and was heart healthy prior to Ahrend's sucide. Thats all for now...Child Loss UK what is your first name? Thank you for expressing what as a writer i was unable to express so clearly as the hell I've been in since ny son's sucide. ❤
Some “friends” leave because they don’t want to hear about the victim anymore. No such thing as closure. You never get over it, you just get through it.
Very true what you have said @krackerjack57 .... no matter how much therapy one goes through ... there will never be complete closure for this. There is no one who can can fully understand this loss.
I’m honestly so close
Hope ur allgood ive been where U are. if you can't live for you then live for all the people that you would hurt, when I realised I hurt but I don't want others too I realised I'm not as bad or as hopeless a person as I perceived myself to be..
This is the suffering you are imposing on your kids when you create them. #stophavingkids #antinatalism
So very sorry..my condolences to you and yr family. I lost my oldest son to suicide 2021..he was 32..it was devasting. I couldn't stop thinking of him that first year..i got grief counseling..for 9 months..and joined support groups. It helped..but I still have days that I break down and cry. It hurts so bad. Even still.
I lost my son to suicide 3 years ago. I do know why per se. Some things I'll never know because you never know everything that goes on in someones head unless they tell you everything. When I got the call I went to the scene and the police officer told me what happened I just crumbled. He shot himself. The case is still open because the gun was not found at the scene. The first year took a physical toll on me. The second year still physical problems, but was able to get out more. But anything I did I tried to enjoy and I did at that moment but after it was done. It was like I didn't feel anything anymore. This year I'm still dealing with some physical things but hopefully doc will finally get that under control, the only thing is reality has kicked in and this year has been rough on me. I've always been the tough one. Strong for everyone else and it's tough having to rely on someone else to help. I go to therapy 2x a week and have been since 3 months after the death. My husband passed 20 years ago. So I wanted to watch this video to get a mans story of losing his child to suicide. Cause my boyfriend doesn't understand. He loved my son but can't feel what I feel and it's tough for him to try to understand my grief. So thank you Kevin for sharing. And also LeAnn also. ❤️❤️❤️
Suicide is not a joke. I was so confused,stressed and,scared bc my daughter was cutting on herself and talking about suicide when she was a teenager. It was just a cpl of yrs ago but I still keep her close bc I don’t want her to get back to that kind of thinking. 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾I would literally lose my mind if anything happened to her. I mean LOSE it!!!!
The thumbnail is creepy.....everyone is smiling
I lost my 29 year old only son to suicide just 2 months ago. It was the day after my birthday. The grief is unbearable and the questions in my mind are unending. I know I will never be the same person again and a big part of my heart will always by sad and dark. I can't bear to imagine the pain he must have been going through to hide his feelings from my husband and me. We never had a clue about what he was going through and for how long. He was always a very gentle, thoughtful and caring person. I really don't know how I will ever be able to live a 'normal' life ..... this tragedy has changed the meaning of everything in our lives. Thank you so much to Kevin and LeeAnne for sharing as it has given me a tiny little ray of hope that maybe some day I will have a little bit of peace in my heart.
im so very sorry about what happened. how are you doing a couple months later? did you get to see him on your birthday if I may ask?
Relate so much😢 same situation but mine is my daughter 😭
Human interaktion‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️❤️❤️♥️
I lost my son and daughter to suicide .. would like to share my story
You definitely need to share your story brother. Love to you
❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ I'm so sorry. My 30 yr son is so suicidal and I'm so concerned.
@@ZFern9390 get him some help
@@ZFern9390MY HUSBAND HUNG HIMSELF AT AGE 30
I’m suicidal but I don’t want to hurt my family
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Don't do it please
I lost my 19 yo son to suicide just this August; there are no words to describe the anguish and pain we feel each day; my wife and I are truly broken and I wish no one else has to feel this
How did he kill himself? So sorry for your loss ❤
@@suryawellness778 he hung himself in his room a day after my birthday
I have experienced this too, same age 19. It ripped me apart. It will get easier to deal with in time. Take care of each other
I am so sorry for your loss.
I would like to offer my condolences to any parents who have lost their children to suicide I am sorry for your losses
Thank You Very Much for your transparency! Our family lost a nephew this month to suicide. A wife & 3 month old son were left behind. Both sides of the family have rallied & gathered for Celebration of Life memorial services at churches. I agree that Suicide Prevention & Awareness are critical. 😢 Therese Pisarcik 🙏⛪️✝️
I lost my son August 13 th 2023 it's only been over a week he was always with me good or bad times he never had any friends his sister and he was close he was24 yrs old I feel like I failed him the pain is unbearable so many unanswered questions everywhere I go reminds me of him he hung himself about a block from my house someone found him early morning walking there dog I feel so lost barley able to go to wrk never thought I'd be dealing with this parents arnt supposed to put live there kids
12:57 broke me. I struggle with this battle myself but I can’t even begin to fathom how he or any parent would feel hearing not just that their child is gone, but that they’re gone or their own hand. God bless these parents dealing with the Texas-sized hole in their hearts that a tragedy like suicide causes.
I think about dying everyday
Hey 🤝 I see you. how come?
ARE YOU STILL ALIVE
The thumbnail is creepy...
My son Matthew Gordon Fort Myers Florida killed 4th June 2022 he left 2 small children and everything you are saying it so true my anger is still with me I am horrible to my other children 😢😢😢😢😢 so upset I can’t find a group or a person who lost a grown son
I'm so sorry for the situation you're in.... can just hear your heart break. 💔💔💔 I dont know if this is worth anything to you at all. If its not you can ignore me completely. I'm 34 and I have a young son. I'm not suicidal, not now. but i have been tempted pretty hard in the past. Whenever I think of how it would affect people it is just devastating... especially my parents and my son. Beyond words. Thats a major reason that God willing, by his grace I will never do it. But i have been in that low mental place for decades. I don't blame you for how you're doing. I dont blame you for being angry. I don't blame you for being raw and lashing out. I completely understand it... it makes sense to me. I don’t blame you at all. ❤❤❤ I understand. Jesus forgave my sins. And if he's willing to forgive a man like me, I promise you, he can and will forgive anyone who asks him. 🫂
I lost my 29 year old son Cody to suicide Dec. 19th, 2023. I ache every minute of every day. I live in Venice , Florida. If you'd like to talk I am open to it. Marie
A chiId who Ioses their parents is caIIed an orphan. A person who Ioses their kid(s), there *is* no name for that. Why? Because there is IiteraIIy nothing worse than Iosing your OWN CHlLD. l want to give ALL the support l have to these peopIe❤️❤️❤️May God bIess their IoveIy famiIy😢
I lost my son last month on May 20th. I knew that he was struggling but we had a code. He was supposed to tell me that he wasn't safe... that was the phrase but he didn't. The hardest part for me is not knowing what changed because we all thought that he was getting better. Thank you for sharing your story, I can relate to so much of it. I'm so sorry for your loss.
😢💔😔. I’m so sorry for your terrible loss. I really am. x
Jules, I’m so sorry for the loss of your beloved child. My sister’s 4 year old child drown in the care of a trusted relative. I was at an emergency appointment and he was with a new but trusted babysitter. There is a void in our family where the joy he brought to our lives was. My ex boyfriend commented suicide in front of me by a very violent method. I hope someday when you think of him you can do so with lessened pain and an internal knowing that you shall be reunited. I hope you have the support and love you need. ❤️
wow that is terrible. Both of those things are really terrible. I'm sorry to hear it. I hope you've been able to find peace. And for your sister too... that's awful. may God send down his word and bring healing. "For you who revere my name, the sun of righteousness will rise with healing in its wings." Malachi 4:2a ☀️
Hugs to all parents going through this
I lost my son at 26 one and half years after using marihuana and ayahuasca for 8 years whit depression say no to drugs! Brasil
Sick n tired of all the negative stuff happening in March!
I'm tired of this life.
@@the.seagull.35How is it going?
Its a battle many ups and downs that I feel we all go through
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People who commit suicide, often show little signs of heavy depression , to their families. Families , r mostly surprised, when a luved one commits suicide. Its a complicated issue, as all humans r unique , in their own way. Sad when they die young, or have children. Some people, who suffer from depression, cant pull themselves up and out of that feeling of helplessness.They can't handle stressful situations , like relationship breakups, financial strain, death, and sickness. RIP! Blessings and prayers to the families.