When Anne Moss Rogers lost her son Charles to suicide in 2015, she made a decision that would change the trajectory of her life and impact thousands of families. She left her digital marketing career to become a mental health speaker and suicide prevention advocate, driven by a painful truth: we need to talk about
When Tonia Ahern’s oldest son began struggling in school, she heard what so many parents hear: he wasn’t working to capacity. Looking back now, she realizes the signs were there all along—ADHD, learning differences, and the emotional pain of being bullied—but like many parents, she didn’t recognize them until after substance use became a crisis.
When Janet Janes found her 19-year-old son Christopher unresponsive one morning, she had no idea that his death from methadone poisoning would launch her into a 12-year journey of fierce advocacy. Christopher was working and going to college—a young man with his whole life ahead of him—when he took what he thought was a harmless
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