I always talk about the invisibles. The invisible populations, the invisible awareness dates.

The invisible symptoms.

It’s difficult enough going through something invisible - it might impact your sleep or appetite. Maybe your mood or your ability to concentrate.

On today’s episode of The Be Ruthless Show, I discuss why it’s so important to have certain people involved when working with the invisibles.

I discuss different levels of involvement, ranging from absent to enmeshed, and I discuss your role in making this happen in the event professionals aren’t reaching out to you.

Remember that you can reach out anytime - with questions, feedback, to work with me, for referrals and resources, and just for support and connection: [email protected]

Join the Griefhab Community:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/griefhab7/

Join Team Ruthless for SIX support groups

EVERY week PLUS EVERY holiday:

https://samantharuth.com/team-ruthless

Learn more about the pre-events and Healing Together Through the Holidays:

https://samantharuth.com/healing-together-through-holidays

How many accidents do you pass when you’re driving? My parents will tell you stories of me traumatized as a little girl. Asking questions hours after seeing accidents. Wanting to know if everyone was ok.

I’m still that same little girl when I see any accident. It doesn’t matter whether or not I know the people. It stays with me.

SO many people have lost loved ones in tragic accidents. Today’s guests on The Be Ruthless Show, Jennifer & Jeff Forlastro, lost their son in a motorcycle accident and have created their foundation, Gears in Heaven, in Brandon’s honor.

Gears in Heaven is a 501c3 non-profit organization comprised of dedicated, compassionate volunteers and generous donors, missioned to offer comfort and support to the families of motorsport enthusiasts who are killed or seriously injured in a vehicle accident.

Learn more at gearsinheaven.org

Remember that you can reach out anytime - with questions, feedback, to work with me, for referrals and resources, and just for support and connection: [email protected]

Join the Griefhab Community:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/griefhab7/

Join Team Ruthless for SIX support groups

EVERY week PLUS EVERY holiday:

https://samantharuth.com/team-ruthless

Learn more about the pre events and Healing Together Through the Holidays:

https://samantharuth.com/healing-together-through-holidays

(For information about July's Paddle & Paint event in Seaside, NJ - contact [email protected])

I’ve always been confused by some of the things we’re conditioned to believe. Ya know, the girls can’t do this and only boys can do that kind of things.

It’s Men’s Mental Health (Awareness) Month. And Men’s Mental Health (Awareness) Week.

Necessary? Absolutely!

On today’s episode of The Be Ruthless Show, I discuss why all mental health awareness days matter. I discuss why having the conversations matter - and more importantly, why not having them matters more.

Remember that you can reach out anytime - with questions, feedback, to work with me, for referrals and resources, and just for support and connection: [email protected]

Join the Griefhab Community:

https:// www.facebook.com/groups/griefhab7/

Join Team Ruthless for SIX support groups

EVERY week PLUS EVERY holiday: https:// samantharuth.com/team-ruthless

Learn more about the pre events and Healing Together Through the Holidays: https:// samantharuth.com/healing-together-through-holidays

(For information about July’s Paddle & Paint event in Seaside, NJ - contact [email protected])

The S Word. Suicide. If mental health has a stigma, suicide is in a world of its own.

There’s less support - when there should be more. We heal together. We heal through having the conversations.

Today’s guest on The Be Ruthless Show cared about helping others long before she really understood how much it would truly come to mean to her.

Jen Allen is the CEO of Front Range Family Resource Center, a counseling clinic, in Wheat Ridge, Colorado. Prior to this, she was a registered nurse and spent most of her nursing career in inner city emergency departments. Shortly after obtaining her Master's degree in pursuit of a Nurse Practitioner career, she lost her son to a very unexpected suicide. This tragic experience led Jen in a whole new direction in life and in her career.

Mental health and becoming a support to families who have lost loved ones to suicide became her focus and her mission.

Jen is also the wife of Jeremy, an Air Force Veteran and psychotherapist. They have been married for almost 28 years and raised two of the most amazing children, Kaitlyn and Daniel. They also have a bonus daughter, Cassie and two beautiful bonus grand babies, Colt and Sawyer. Jen spends her free time on the sunny beaches of Florida with her husband and with her four dogs, Roxy, Frasier, Gromit, and Morty.

Connect with Jen on instagram at @ninjanursejen and read her chapter in Faces of Grief, available this December!

Remember that you can reach out anytime - with questions, feedback, to work with me, for referrals and resources, and just for support and connection: [email protected]

Join the Griefhab Community: https://www.facebook.com/groups/griefhab7/

Join Team Ruthless for SIX support groups EVERY week PLUS EVERY holiday: https://samantharuth.com/team-ruthless

Learn more about the pre events and Healing Together Through the Holidays: https://samantharuth.com/healing-together-through-holidays

How is it already June? Did you know that June is Alzheimer’s and Brain Awareness Month? National PTSD Month? Men’s Health Month?

It’s also Beautiful in Your Skin Month, which celebrates the unique beauty of each person's skin. It's a time to embrace individuality, foster self-love, and boost confidence.

On today’s episode of The Be Ruthless Show, I discuss insecurities. I discuss what to do when you don’t feel beautiful in your skin. Because it’s another lesson we need to be taught in schools - but we’re not!

Remember that you can reach out anytime - with questions, feedback, to work with me, for referrals and resources, and just for support and connection: [email protected]

Join the Griefhab Community: https://www.facebook.com/groups/griefhab7/

Join Team Ruthless for SIX support groups EVERY week PLUS EVERY holiday: https://samantharuth.com/team-ruthless

Learn more about the pre events and Healing Together Through the Holidays: https://samantharuth.com/healing-together-through-holidays

Addiction. Recovery. Words many are ashamed of and won’t even discuss. Even those with years, even decades, of sobriety. Not today’s guest on The Be Ruthless Show. Racquet Garcia shares her story of addiction and recovery with pride. It’s her “badge of honor.”

Racquel Garcia is a passionate advocate for change, working tirelessly to destigmatize and educate on the challenges of overcoming substance misuse and systemic and familial obstacles. She is deeply committed to advocating for underserved populations, particularly on the issues of racial equity, the power of peer coaching, and criminal justice reform.

Racquel is the owner & Chief Innovation Officer of HardBeauty and serves as the Executive Director of the HardBeauty Foundation. Her foundation is the first and only peer-led organization in Douglas County, Colorado, offering hybrid coaching and programming that serves the entire state.

Racquel's educational background includes an Associates Degree in Addiction Counseling from ICDC College. She is also a National Certified Peer Recovery Specialist with NAADAC and possesses qualifications as an ARISE Interventionist, Subject Matter Expert and Training Facilitator for Opioid Response Network, working at the national level on behalf of SAMSHA. March of 2023, Racquel began a 2-year term on the Colorado Opioid Abatement Council. Her appointment by the Attorney General highlights her expertise in the field. She serves as a member of the Behavioral Health Administration Advisory Council (BHACC). In this capacity, she collaborates to create a people-first behavioral health system in Colorado.

Racquel's involvement extends nationally as the Vice-Chair of the National Naloxone Project, where she is a leader in MOMs+. Her contributions have made her a powerful influencer, particularly with the "Tough As A Mother Stronger Than Addiction" campaign, which acknowledges her impactful work with mothers in Colorado and across the nation.

Racquel will be speaking at Visible in August and she’s also part of the 2nd annual Healing Together Through the Holidays this December - because addiction, recovery, loss, and grief are all connected - and all need to be discussed more!

Learn more about HardBeauty and Raquel at HardBeauty.life

Remember that you can reach out anytime - with questions, feedback, to work with me, for referrals and resources, and just for support and connection: [email protected]

Join the Griefhab Community: https://www.facebook.com/groups/griefhab7/

Join Team Ruthless for SIX support groups EVERY week PLUS EVERY holiday: https://samantharuth.com/team-ruthless

Learn more about Visible and Healing Together Through the Holidays: https://samantharuth.com/healing-together-through-holidays

Ohhhh the noise. It can convince you that you should stay silent when silence is the enemy!!

It isolates you.

On today’s episode of The Be Ruthless Show, I’m coming Straight Outta the Fire to share 5 tips you must know when you’re dealing with haters.

Because they’re everywhere.

Remember that you can reach out anytime - with questions, feedback, to work with me, for referrals and resources, and just for support and connection: [email protected]

Join the Griefhab Community: https://www.facebook.com/groups/griefhab7/

Join Team Ruthless for SIX support groups EVERY week PLUS EVERY holiday: https://samantharuth.com/team-ruthless

I really am a clutz - it’s genetic. But lately, my bruises aren’t from me. I have people literally coming to knock me down.

I’m coming back even harder.

Because it’s NOT. ABOUT. ME.

On today’s episode of The Be Ruthless Show, I discuss Betrayal. I discuss not knowing who you can trust after ONE betrayal in life.

What happens if you e had more than one?

As always - I discuss the importance of listening to our bodies. Learning how to tune out the noise so we learn what our intuition is - because it’s not taught in schools!

I discuss what I’m going through so it doesn’t happen to you. Because there is NO OTHER PROGRAM like Griefhab.

You can reach out anytime - with questions, feedback, to work with me, for referrals and resources, and just for support and connection: [email protected] 

Join the Griefhab Community: https://www.facebook.com/groups/griefhab7/ 

Learn more about Team Ruthless: https://samantharuth.com/team-ruthless

Learn more about the Road to Healing Together Through the Holidays: https://samantharuth.com/healing-together-through-holidays

Here is the new Team Ruthless Group schedule, effective immediately:

Tonight/weekly

Wednesday’s at 5:30 pm MST

Monday, May 27th at 5:30 pm MST

Memorial Day Holiday Group

Tuesday, May 28th at 1 pm MST

Loss of a parent

Alternating weekly

June 4th loss of a child

June 11th loss of a parent

Wednesdays at 5:30 pm MST (weekly)

Partner/spouse loss

Fridays at 8 am MST (weekly)

Pet loss

4 pm MST (weekly)

Addiction and overdose loss

Saturdays at 9 am MST (weekly)

Young Adults Grief Support and Loss Group

Monday, June 3rd at 10 am MST

Alternating weeks

Anxiety & Self-Esteem

June 10th Surviving Suicide loss

June 17th Anxiety & Self Esteem

“Accused of being kind!”

Legendary Hall of Famer, Terry Bradshaw, believes Quarterback, Dak Prescott, is not winning Superbowl’s because (wait for this one!) he’s “too kind 😳”

Pardon my French, but I. Shit. You. Not.

Advocating for Mental Illness. Too Kind.

Connecting with fans who have experienced loss. Too Kind. Sharing his message that Together We Can - Too Kind.

On today’s episode of The Be Ruthless Show, I discuss tuning out this exact kind of negative noise. The world always has something to say.

Together we can do more. Together we can heal. Together we can get through the difficult times, celebrate the beautiful times.

Together we can!

You can reach out anytime - with questions, feedback, to work with me, for referrals and resources, and just for support and connection: [email protected]

Join the Griefhab Community: https://www.facebook.com/groups/griefhab7/

Learn more about Team Ruthless: https://samantharuth.com/team-ruthless

Learn more about the Road to Healing Together Through the Holidays: https://samantharuth.com/healing-together-through-holidays

“Accused of being kind!”

Legendary Hall of Famer, Terry Bradshaw, believes Quarterback, Dak Prescott, is not winning Superbowl’s because (wait for this one!) he’s “too kind 😳”

Pardon my French, but I. Shit. You. Not.

Advocating for Mental Illness. Too Kind.

Connecting with fans who have experienced loss. Too Kind. Sharing his message that Together We Can - Too Kind.

On today’s episode of The Be Ruthless Show, I discuss tuning out this exact kind of negative noise. The world always has something to say.

Together we can do more. Together we can heal. Together we can get through the difficult times, celebrate the beautiful times.

Together we can!

You can reach out anytime - with questions, feedback, to work with me, for referrals and resources, and just for support and connection: [email protected]

Join the Griefhab Community: https://www.facebook.com/groups/griefhab7/

Learn more about Team Ruthless: https://samantharuth.com/team-ruthless

Learn more about the Road to Healing Together Through the Holidays: https://samantharuth.com/healing-together-through-holidays