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02/15/2026

Feeling like you don’t matter can quickly drain your energy, motivation, and joy.
Research from Zach Mercurio, Ph.D. reminds us that mattering is a basic human need.

When that sense of significance feels depleted, try this:

✨ Overestimate your impact: your smallest actions ripple more than you realize.
🧠 Adopt a “so that” mindset: connect what you do to who it helps.
💬 Name what you give, not just what you do; energy, care, clarity, presence.
🤝 Invest in validating relationships: helping people feel seen and heard restores meaning for everyone.

You don’t need to do more to matter.
You already matter and you matter more than you perhaps already know.

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02/14/2026

Today is a gentle reminder that the love you’re looking for starts with you. 🩷

12/25/2025

It’s OKAY if it’s not your most wonderful time of the year. Sometimes the most meaningful gifts aren’t things you unwrap.
They’re the small, steady practices that tell your nervous system it doesn’t have to be on high alert.

Trauma teaches the body to brace, to scan, to survive.
Regulation often comes back quietly, through breath, rest, warmth, boundaries, and safe connection. Nervous system regulation allows for healing and thriving.

Deep breaths that bring you back into your body.
Boundaries that reduce harm instead of asking you to tolerate it.
Moments of stillness, reflection, comfort, and care that soften the edges.

These aren’t indulgences.
They’re repair. They’re safety. They’re essentials.

If the holidays feel overwhelming, it’s OKAY to choose what actually supports your system.
You don’t owe performance, productivity, or closeness that doesn’t feel safe.

Gentle is powerful.

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12/17/2025

We are our harshest critics. We fixate on flaws, overanalyze mistakes or non-mistakes, and underestimate our worth. If we could step out of our own minds and see ourselves through the eyes of someone who loves us, truly loves us, we’d be floored. They see our quirks, how we show up, our talents, how we live in our values and unique humanness in a way we rarely see in ourselves.

“You don’t even know how you look in my mind. In my mind, you are beautiful, special, talented... If I could give you my view of yourself, you would be so shocked and so stoked because it’s awesome,” she perfectly articulated a universal experience of how we see others we love and care about, how others often see us and how blinded we often are to our own magnificence.
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12/16/2025

That instinct to rush in with reassurance usually holds more than one truth. There’s care. There’s discomfort. Sometimes there’s the moment their pain touches something tender in you. That’s part of being human.

If you’re the one feeling rushed, it’s understandable that it can feel minimizing. Even when no harm was intended it can hurt.

When both people bring their histories into the moment, the conversation shifts. It becomes a clearer view of how care, fear, and pain quietly tangle in the moment.
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12/15/2025

When all we know is a barbwire stitched blanket for comfort, we are unbothered by the tetanus. Instead we are bothered when we are met with the coziest blanket ever, and confused why it isn’t digging into our skin. explains this concept perfectly.
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09/29/2025

Fi****ms are the most lethal means of su***de and teens are at higher risk when guns are easily accessible. Safe storage and open conversations save lives.

✅ Store fi****ms locked, unloaded, and separate from ammunition.
✅ Talk with your teen about safety and su***de, just like you would about driving, alcohol, or relationships.
✅ If you’re worried, ask directly and get help, call or text 988 or use the SafeUT app (Utah).

Together, we can protect teens and prevent su***de.

🔐 Safe storage = su***de prevention.
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09/08/2025

The use of language when talking about su***de is crucial. Research shows people with lived su***de experience have physiological responses to how su***de is discussed and the use of neutral language is a crucial factor in de-stigmatizing su***de and su***de prevention. This use of language is not about being “politically correct” it is about saving lives. Using “commit” implies su***de is a crime or a sin, which reinforces the stigma that su***de is a selfish act and personal choice.
When a person is experiencing suicidal ideation, they believe their loved ones would be better without them and they would be removing themselves from being a burden.
Using neutral phrasing like “died by su***de” helps take away the shame/blame element from loss survivors, this is crucial because a risk factor for su***de is being a su***de loss survivor. The concept of a “successful” or
“failed” su***de is inappropriate because it places a tragic outcome as an achievement or something positive to accomplish to strive for.
Words are powerful, our use of language is one of the most influential aspects in su***de intervention, prevention and postvention.
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09/05/2025

The word “commit” implies a crime. Su***de is not a crime; su***de is a desperate act to remove oneself from the pain they are experiencing. Using ‘commit’ further perpetuates stigma and induces shame in seeking help to relieve suicidal pain. The use of certain language is critical in su***de prevention and postvention.
If you or someone you know is struggling, call 988, you are not alone.💜
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09/04/2025

Su***de prevention is not only about recognizing and intervening when someone is in a crisis. It’s about providing people with access to adequate resources, education, opportunities and care to prevent the crises in the first place.

That means:
💜Housing
💜Culturally informed care
💜Livable wages
💜Youth su***de prevention courses
💜Social emotional learning in schools
💜Community engagement
💜Increasing access to mental health care
💜Food security
💜Affordable healthcare
💜Family & peer acceptance of LGBTQIA+ individuals
💜Mental health education in schools
💜Mental health education and
resources in the workplace
💜Workplace psychological safety
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09/03/2025

Su***de does not have a single cause. However, there are risk factors and warning signs, which may increase the potential indication of an attempt. Learning and recognizing the risk factors and warning signs of su***de can be life saving.
Other risk factors include race, gender and age; white middle age males have the highest percentage of death from su***de. While there are risks and warnings, there are also protective factors against su***de. Reinforcing protective factors can serve as a counter balance from the risk factors.
To help su***de prevention and end stigma of mental health please check in on your loved ones, remind them they are NOT a burden, share the things you love about them/why you’re grateful to have them, and encourage others to do the same - mental health can be invisible so this matters for everyone.
You have a brain, you have mental health.
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