Rebecca Petruck

Today is World Suicide Prevention Day, so I wanted to share a post I wrote for a site that has since closed. Some of you will have read it already, but I think a conversation about suicide is necessarily, and sadly, an ongoing one. Since I read Brené Brown’s book about shame I Thought It Was Just Me (But It Isn’t), I have felt like the world is a brighter place. Which may sound like a contrary statement: “I’ve learned about shame, and now I’m happy!” But recognizing how shame