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Humor, Healing, and Resilience with Elaine Lindsay


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Humor, Healing, and Resilience with Elaine Lindsay

In this episode, you'll hear: 

  • How our belief system about ourselves is formed—and how to shift it
  • What it's like to live with suicidal ideation
  • Strength in accepting what you can and cannot change
  • In this episode, Mathew, Dr. Dave Leicken, and Elaine Lindsay explore the power of humor as a therapeutic tool, highlighting its ability to bring lightness to even the heaviest of struggles. They discuss the importance of beginning the healing process while emphasizing that it doesn’t have to follow a specific timeline. The conversation also delves into the realities of living with suicidal ideation, offering insights into navigating these challenges with compassion, resilience, and support.

    Elaine Lindsay is a Canadian speaker, podcaster, and digital integration specialist dedicated to mental health advocacy, particularly suicide prevention and awareness. As the host of the Suicide Zen Forgiveness podcast, she fosters open and honest conversations to break the silence, stigma, and shame surrounding suicide loss, ideation, and mental health. Her personal journey is one of profound resilience—having lost a friend to suicide at 16, turned to substance use, and endured a life-altering car crash in her 20s that resulted in the loss of a pregnancy. Despite facing multiple personal losses and numerous surgeries, Elaine has found strength in community support, storytelling, and even humor. Writing for Medium and performing stand-up, she uses laughter as a healing tool, bringing a unique perspective to discussions on grief, trauma, and recovery.

    “Don’t keep everything inside. You are not a one person army.” - Elaine Lindsay

    “When you realize that some of these things are temporary, and the fact is, I lived through all that pain, I can go through one more thing.” -Elaine Lindsay

    “If you can just keep moving forward and keep plowing through, things eventually settle down. And when you get on the other side of it, there is gold. There are lessons to be learned, and there are things you can draw out of the pain that make you stronger, wiser, better equipped to help other people going through it.” - Dr. Dave Leicken

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    • Listen on Apple Podcasts (link: https://apple.co/3s1YH7h
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      Resources:

      • Elaine Lindsay Website
      • Suicide Zen Forgiveness Podcast by Elaine Lindsay
      • Elaine Lindsay Linkedin 
      • Dr. Dave Leicken
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