Category: Sunflowers
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Mental Illness Doesn’t Predict Suicide; Hopelessness Does.
Disclaimer: Content is created by iFred’s team of editors. When you buy through links on our site, we may earn a commission. The death of Bed Bath & Beyond’s CFO,Gustavo Arnal, hits far too close to home for me. He was a father of two girls, a financial executive, and a husband. No matter what…
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Finding Hope on National Grief Awareness Day
Two years ago, we received the call that my father-in-law had passed away. We sat in our kitchen, nursing drinks and listening to the quiet tick of the clock, trying to understand. We were trapped with our grief, separated from the hospital and the rest of our family by closed borders and pandemic protocols. When…
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International Day of Peace
September 21, 2021 was the International Day of Peace, an event created by the United Nations to celebrate strengthening the ideals of peace around the world. This year, iFred celebrated the International Day of Peace in Manhattan Beach with STAND 4 PEACE, an organization dedicated to raising awareness about issues related to peace, including the…
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Consider Planting a Garden for Hope this Memorial Day Weekend
This weekend is Memorial Day in the United States, a time to remember and honor those that served in the Armed Forces. It is a day to give thanks for the sacrifices made and to honor the lives lost. It is a day of remembrance. According to Military.com, In 2018, the military experienced the…
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Hope Contagion: 13 Reasons Why It’s Time to Change Direction
There are so many more reasons, but let’s start with 13. As we can argue all day about if suicide contagion is “real”, yet why not focus on Hope? Our goal is to come up with a Hope contagion, and we need your help to make it possible. The reasons why we need to change direction to…
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Earn Your Hope Badge and Become a trained Hope listener on 7 Cups
Hope Badge is now available through 7 cups, in order to train people around the world on how to create a hopeful mindset. As hopelessness is the number one symptom of depression, and correlated to suicide, ifred teamed with 7 cups to Deliver the hopeful minds curriculum by teaching the opposite: hope iFred, the International…
