I am mindful..
Warning: The following information may be confronting and disturbing. Sometimes words or images can cause sadness or distress, or trigger traumatic memories for people, particularly survivors of past abuse, violence or childhood trauma.
- Women aged 15 – 19 are most at risk of suicidal ideation, suicidal attempts and self harm.
- 1 in 4 Australians know someone who has committed suicide in the past year.
- Youth suicide rates are at a 10 year high.
Did you know most people don’t know how to manage their mental health and tough times skilfully, but they want to know how!
When we’re extremely distressed we just want our pain to go away and if we don’t know how to cope skilfully in those moments (which most of us don’t, because we were never taught how in school, movies or from our parents) we can be tempted to cope in unhealthy ways that are problematic for us – that damage our relationships, make the situation worse and aren’t in line with our long term goals and values.
Introducing I Am Mindful. Our wonderful team of Educators participated in the workshop ‘I Am Mindful’. During this interactive workshop, our educators discovered the true meaning of mindfulness and discovered targeted strategies that are unique to each educator to support their mental wellbeing. Each educator received a research based I.A.M Box filled with resources and information to utilise and engage with to assist with reducing your distress and self soothe. The goal of the I.A.M Box combined with our accompanying coping planning resources, is to help individuals create a roadmap of your own unique healthy and evidence based coping strategies which you can share with your support system to help you when it’s hard to help yourself.
At Inspired we aim to empower individuals including our children, students, educators, families and the broad community to embrace mindfulness and teach how to be more accepting and loving towards ourselves and to discover the joy in being imperfectly perfect, just as we are.
If you or someone else is in immediate danger and/or need urgent medical help:
- Call emergency services 000 (112 from a mobile phone if 000 doesn’t work
- Go to the Emergency Department of your local hospital
- CATT Team (Crisis Assessment and Treatment Team): If you need help now, call your state’s mental health crisis line for immediate expert support. They will help you work out which services can best help. This could be the doctor, a hospital emergency department or a community mental health service. Sometimes, the CATT Team will be sent to you, wherever you are.
- VIC – 1300 363 746 FREE – Psychiatric triage (information, assessment and referral) 24 hours a day, 7 days a week
- Lifeline : ( 13 11 14) Call 24/7 for crisis support
- Centre Against Sexual Assault (CASA): (1800 806 292) A free confidential 24 hour emergency or crisis care service
- Suicide Call Back Service: (1300 659 467) 24/7 support for people at risk of suicide, carers and bereaved
- Kids Helpline: (1800 55 1800) Counselling for young people 5 – 25
- GriefLine: (1300 845 745) Counselling service for people suffering grief.
