suicide prevention through storytelling
SheStayed is a suicide prevention nonprofit using storytelling and creative media to open the door to conversation and support.
We share the stories of women who have lived through suicidal thoughts or attempts, focusing on who they are today and what life has become. These stories create relatability that helps reduce isolation and move people toward support.
many people experiencing
suicidal thoughts do not begin by asking for help.
They begin in silence, trying to make sense of what they are feeling on their own.
SheStayed exists to meet people in that space.
Seeing someone who has lived through similar thoughts can reduce the sense of being completely alone. That shift can make it easier to speak, to reach for support, and to stay.
This work focuses on the life beyond the moment, on what exists after, because seeing what life can hold makes it possible to imagine staying.
founder’s story
SheStayed was founded by Genna Masters in 2025.
At 16, she attempted suicide.
For years, that experience remained largely unspoken. It was something held privately, not fully integrated into how she saw herself.
Over time, through personal work and a search for deeper meaning, that chapter began to resurface, not as something to hide, but as something to understand.
She came to recognize that if she had been able to see what her life would become, it could have changed everything in the moments she questioned staying.
That insight expanded beyond her own experience. Many women have lived through similar thoughts, often in silence. What is often most difficult in those moments is not only the weight of the thoughts themselves, but the isolation, the shame, and how difficult it can be to speak about what they are experiencing.
SheStayed was created to move people out of isolation and into conversation, creating pathways toward support.