10Days to Touch 10Million movement, suicide prevention, inspirational viral film, your life matters!
November 27, 2009 | Los Angeles, California | Vetting explained
The 10 Days to Touch 10 Million movement started as a grass-roots initiative to combat the increase of depression and suicide during the holiday season with inspirational media/music carrying this message "Your life matters, You are loved!"-- and has already been featured on Times Square, and promoted through FaceBook/Twitter by hundreds and thousands of people, including recent promotion by Deepak Chopra, NFL players, CEOs, Music stars, and other remarkable people. (http://www.10Daysto10Million.com)
In this iReport, Dr. Clint Rogers describes a recent event at the Weingart center for homeless in LA - which included a showing one of the 4-minute viral media message "Our Deepest Fear", and a message from best-selling author, speaker, and 3-time legislator Les Brown. The media clip that was shown contain inspirational spoken segments put to music by 7-time Emmy award winning composer/producer Gary Malkin - and is being spread through social media outlets by hundreds and thousands of people around the world.
The reaction of the residents at the homeless shelter was poignant - each wanted a copy of the film (expressing how it helped them think about fear differently and brought a moment of peace), one man said the event persuaded him not to go out and do something terrible he was about to do, a woman expressed her hope that despite the addictions which had harmed her she realized she had a message to share, and another man declared that he knew he was in the right place at the right time - that he was moved to change his life because of the experience.
Due to the positive reactions from showings like this around the US and world, the movement will continue throughout the holidays, to spread this message: "Your life matters, you are loved!"
Please consider joining this movement, and helping extend this message through any media outlet that we can. Press Kit
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- Losing a loved one to suicide
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