I’ve been talking all week to captive audiences (my clients, my hairdresser, friends and relatives who call for other purposes, random strangers) about the amazing story of Antoinette Tuff, who averted a school shooting at the Ronald E. McNair Discovery Learning Academy in Decatur, Georgia.
I’ve been pleading with everyone to listen to the full recording of the 24+ minute 911 call of Antoinette where she can be heard saying things like, “Baby, everything is going to be OK… It’s going to be all right, sweetie… We’re not going to hate you, baby. I just want you to know I love you, though…”
The way she handled Michael Brandon Hill (“You’re a Hill? … My momma was a Hill.”) is a dramatic and extreme example of how I plead daily with my clients to just be nice and show compassion to everyone no matter how hard and how adamantly others try to pull them into their dramas. Now I can say, even when said perp is armed with an AK47 and 500 rounds of ammo–still just try to give love!
I read a nice write-up in my local paper that was reprinted from The Kansas City Star. It was written by Mary Sanchez. I thought she summed it nicely with this comment: “A school clerk with a heart—not a good guy with a gun—did the work.”
Gary Younge wrote for The Guardian, “Tuff’s action shows neither guns or guys are necessarily compulsory. A woman armed with emotional intelligence, immense poise and copious amount of empathy can do the job and leave everybody alive.”
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And thank you Antoinette for reminding us all of the mental health principle that we therapists live by: talking really can change lives. In your case, it saved lives.
Our mantra for the week: “Baby, everything is going to be OK.”
Sanity now!
