DiscoverBefore You Kill Yourself: a suicide prevention podcast.Creativity to Connection to reduce suicidality
Creativity to Connection to reduce suicidality

Creativity to Connection to reduce suicidality

Update: 2025-11-06
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In this episode, we explore the life-saving potential of creativity in suicide prevention based on a webinar with Dr. Diane Kaufman, MD.

Key Highlights:

  • How Dr. Kaufman used poetry to process suicidal thoughts
  • Transforming personal pain into public healing through books, songs, and an opera
  • Practical ways art can help us move from isolation to connection
  • What many artists who died by suicide were missing—and how to fill in those gaps
  • Creative exercises that turn suffering into meaning


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Creativity to Connection to reduce suicidality

Creativity to Connection to reduce suicidality