165 {Tara J Lal} Losing your brother to suicide and the resilience that follows

Try our FREE burnout quiz. Grab your burnout workbook HERE.  If you would like us to work with your team book a 30 min chat HERE.   Trigger warning: suicide, mental health For Tara J Lal, trauma and loss is sadly nothing new, but in a sea of trauma, for some people it can still be one event that stands out as a truly identifying point and that is very much the case for Tara. Amongst losing her mother to Cancer at 13 and dealing her father’s mental health battles it was the loss of her brother to suicide that defined a very clear before and after in her life. Now, Tara is the internationally published author of Standing on my Brothers Shoulders – Making Peace with Grief and Suicide. She is also a qualitative researcher, keynote speaker, and former firefighter and has won multiple awards for her work supporting mental health and suicide prevention particularly in the emergency services sector. Tara is passionate about integrating lived experience with research and storytelling to challenge traditional perspectives on mental health and suicide prevention.  In this episode she shares:Her early childhood realisation about her fatherHer mother’s death from cancer when she was a child and how it shattered her familyHow she leant on her brother after losing their motherThe moment her brother took his own lifeThe emotional turmoil she went through in the years following her brother’s deathHow her struggles manifested into panic attacksThe impact of her father’s mental health and diagnosesThe moment that made her realise she could move forward after her brother’s lifeHow her coach tried to take advantage of her and her vulnerabilityThe moment in her adult life that prompted her to see a trauma focused therapistHer path to her PHDThe big year where things piled up and triggered her traumaHow she works through her trauma now   Key Quotes “It just felt like everything that I loved and every person that I loved in the world had been taken from me.” “When I was 13 my mother died.” “At some point I remember realising that my dad wasn’t well.”   More Information about Tara Find out more about Tara via her website.   You can get involved with the podcast online On facebook in our community: https://www.facebook.com/groups/challengesthatchangeus Or on Instagram: @challengesthatchangeus If you want to contact the podcast, email us here: support@challengesthatchangeus.com Or check out our website: www.Challengesthatchangeus.com If you want to find out more about what Ali does, check out her business via the website:http://www.trialtitudeperformance.com.au Interested in DISC personality profiling or a Burnout workshop for your team, get in touch with Ali today. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.