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Although the topic of suicide is uncomfortable the author opens up the dialogue. She explores suicide and its related life's storms of depression, poverty, homelessness, cults, bullying, gender confusion, and gives attention to the internet's availability of fire arms, suicidal options, and the consequences of crossing lines of moral character in social media. She shares personal stories of growing up, and as both counselor and teacher, dealing with difficulties and challenges in life's storms. Her original poetry is interlaced throughout giving voice to the silenced cries of teens and young adults who are experiencing a fragile state and paralyzing pain as they deal with the thunderous roar of life's rapids. Bridges are a tool box of survival self - help techniques to give power to persevere in the midst of life's storms and look inward to find new hope, healing, strength, courage, confidence, and inner peace. Each of our lives will no doubt have days coming out of a storm, or experience a storm headed our way. In the midst of the storm, bridges can help us to view life from a different perspective, and realize that even our worst times have value. Secure bridge building can help to divert us around many of the storms in our lives. Well - built bridges are life - saving techniques to diminish the frenzy of life's storms and the accompanying despair in our hearts, minds, or souls. Bridges can help us navigate the bumps, mountains, and turbulence in our journeys. Bridges are committed to provide a beacon of light in life's storms. "For after the winter, spring shall come... and the mysterious force that Touches the seed, the leaf, the opening petals... touches our lives as well." - Dean Walley.