05/14/2026
With it being Mental Health Awareness Month, I'm sharing this amazing and critical information from our friends at Honest Voice.
May is Mental Health Awareness Month.
Most of us were taught to watch for red flags — the obvious signs that someone is in crisis. Pay attention. Notice the warnings. Step in when things get bad.
That instinct is good. But it has a cost we don't talk about enough.
By the time red flags are visible, the person we love has already been carrying weight for a long time. The "warning signs" we're trained to spot are often the late stages of struggles that started months or years earlier — quietly, in patterns that didn't look like anything at the time.
Waiting for red flags means we're always responding to crisis, never to the conditions that lead to it.
What if we got better at noticing earlier? Not to diagnose. Not to fix. Just to be present before things become urgent.
That's what Before the Red Flags is about — building safer lives, not just spotting signs.
📘 Free Kindle edition May 14–18 on Amazon for Mental Health Awareness Month. Free, because this conversation belongs to everyone.
If it speaks to you, share it with someone who might need it.
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