On June 7, 2017 Emma Benoit decided her life wasn’t worth living anymore. It was the summer before her senior year of high school and on the outside her life looked perfect. She was a stunning varsity cheerleader with a supportive family and lots of friends, but on the inside, she was filled with darkness, depression and anxiety, and had never told a soul about it. Emma got her dad’s 9mm out of his closet and pointed it at her chest and pulled the trigger. A series of miracles saved her life, but the self-inflicted gunshot shot wound resulted in a spinal cord injury that left her paralyzed. Although extremely tragic, the incident helped her find God and propelled her on a mission to use her painful experience and miraculous recovery to help others find hope, while shining more light on the suicide epidemic that is taking so many lives and devastating so many families.