September is Suicide Prevention Awareness Month, and World Suicide Prevention Day falls on the 10th. It is one of those topics that makes people go quiet, change the subject, or assume that bringing it up will somehow put the idea in someone's head. It will not. What actually helps is asking directly, and most people never learn how. We worked with a young man a while back whose family had noticed him pulling away for weeks. Skipping dinners, sleeping at strange hours, giving

By September, the new school year energy has usually worn off and reality has set in. New schedules, new teachers, new social dynamics, and a household trying to relearn a routine that fell apart over summer. Parents rarely hear that this transition is hard on them too, not just on the kids. A mother came into a session a few weeks into the school year completely wrung out. Her son was struggling to settle into a routine, fighting getting out of bed on time, melting down over