Listening to callers on LifeLine’s telephone counselling lines we experience much the same expression of distress.  “My partner has left me – I’m desperate to get her back!”  Some people are surprised to find that they cannot cope when their partner leaves.  It is so easy to overlook how important our relationships are to us.

We know that people do negotiate their way through the pain of an ended relationship, but very rarely is this accomplished without support.  I am so often privileged to have people share their pain and their grief with me.  But that’s not where it stops.  As people make new decisions and decide that they can face their fears, I am also privileged to be a part of lives becoming whole again, and made even stronger for the experience.

I have worked at LifeLine for over six years, and during that time I have managed the Face-to-Face and Mensline Telephone counselling services, and I have been a facilitator for LifeLine’s Living Works suicide intervention programme.  This programme’s title is so apt - it is Living that Works.  It is with support received, that you and I live, and it is with support offered, that we enable others to live.

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