When two local police officers came knocking at my door in the wee hours of the morning to inform me that my beautiful adult child had survived a suicide pack with his friend and was now in the intensive care unit of the local hospital – my world shattered.

I was in trauma and felt immense guilt that I could not have stopped this from happening, that it must have been my fault because he was in my care and I didn’t recognise the signs. Heck I didn’t even know the signs to look out for!

We had weathered some pretty tumultuous storms leading up to this event but this crisis was way beyond my comprehension or skills. Still nagging in the back of my mind was the fact that I had truly believed that I was the best Mum that God had ever put breath into and that my love was in such abundance that it could and would cure or fix anything. I also believed that I had outstanding communication skill as well!

I was so wrong!

My most pressing need was to identify how I could relate to him – from my heart to his in a way that was meaningful and hopefully engaging enough for him to want to stay in this world.

How?

Empowering Families to break down the barriers is a roadmap of my recovery journey to where I am today and the barriers I encountered within my own patterns of thinking and behaving which up until that moment in time I had believed was loving and supportive. 

This website has been established in the hope that I can assist other families in crisis. My eBook offers a more detailed look at my journey and is available at the tiny cost of $5.00 barely the cost of a cup of coffee and for those families who live in or around the Gold Coast area you may like to book into one of my Programs which are held each term.

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