Tag: support of another in mental health
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Community: the grace of the exhale

Quick! Upstairs to hide before they can find us!” My son’s playful voice hurriedly beckons me, so we can hide before big sister and Dad find us. We stumble into his room and climb under the dinosaur sheets, parachuting them over our heads. Floating down, the cozy sheets begin to lower and with them, so…
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Like Velcro: trusting another with my dark thoughts

From thousands of feet in the air, I found myself looking down at the Indiana countryside, wind rushing past my face through an open airplane door. My palms wet with sweat, heart thumping, and legs trembling, I braced myself for what came next. “Okay, you have to jump!” the skydive instructor, who I was securely…
