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!

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