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Podcast: Live Inspired Podcast with John O'Leary
Episode: Live Through This: Suicide Awareness + Prevention
Description: 1.3 million Americans attempted to take their own life in 2016. 45,000+ of those lives were lost. [2019 CDC Report.] Nine years ago, if you'd searched for a community of suicide-attempt survivors, you couldn't have found one. Our guest Dese'Rae Stage knows because she looked and, when her search came up empty, decided to do something about it. Dese'Rae is a photographer, two-time suicide survivor, just shy of having a Ph.D. in suicidology and psychology and the founder of Live Through This. She created this movement to capture portraits and stories of suicide attempt survivors and in doing...