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11 Saturday Feb 2017

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Adolescence, College, Family, Friends, high school, Hope, Life, Mental Health, Suicide, Support Groups, TEEN DEPRESSION

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02-11-2017

Somewhere between the age of eleven and fourteen we lost her.

Please note that I don’t write and post these images and words for my own recognition or salvation…I do this so other teens and parents, who may see our site, find a sense of knowledge and or comfort, knowing that they are not alone in this.

We want to get the word out that teen depression and suicide is real and we are determined to reach out to as many readers as we can…if we can help save just one life from suicide, then our job was worth it and Jewels’ death wasn’t for nothing.

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Copyright February 11, 2017

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SIBLINGS

02 Thursday Feb 2017

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Children, College, Grief, Healing, Help, high school, Mental Health, Suicide, Support Groups, TEEN DEPRESSION, The Compassionate Friends, Website

SIBLINGS…

SISTERS 07.2015

When a child dies, especially to suicide and so young, everyone seems to focus on the parents, and their pain and sorrow, and especially the mother’s anguish.

However, sometimes there are siblings who are forgotten. They too have a special kind of loss.

She has lost their best friend.

Who will she share their future memories?

Who will she call late at night when she just needs someone there to listen to her and to laugh with her?

Who will be her Maid of Honor at her wedding?

Who will she call with the great news that she will be an aunt?

Who will she roll her eyes at during Thanksgiving dinner when annoying family members show up at the door?

Who will she talk to about “Remember when’s…”?

Who will she share her memories? And who will she create new memories?

This is especially hard when she is now the only child.

When a sibling dies, all future special occasions will be forever changed.

We, as parents and support groups, must remember their grieving process because when a sibling dies, they lose a part of their past, present and future.

Here is a support group, chat site, for siblings grieving a loss of a sibling:

Support Group: The Compassionate Friends
The Compassionate Friends Sounds of the Siblings (for bereaved siblings)
https://www.compassionatefriends.org/find-support/online-communities/private-facebook-groups/

 

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Copyright February 2, 2017

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Moonstone Beach

05 Friday Aug 2016

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Author, Cities, College, Elderly, Future, Humboldt County, Life, Mental Health, Moods, Moonstone Beach, National Geographic, Northern California, Past, Present, Psychology, Published, Sunset Magazine, Travel, Vacation, Writer, Youth

Moonstone Beach…

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Do you believe a mood can be altered by a simple scenery change?

Moonstone Beach, in Humboldt County, is one of those places. You may wake up in a bad mood, but once your feet touch the cool, soft sand, squishing in between your toes, you are instantly transformed from blah to majestic. As if, something this beautiful can be real, but it is and trust me pictures don’t do it justice.

The same goes for us that live in the concrete city. We may wake up in a beautiful mood, and once we hit the road of constant and steady traffic, we are instantly put in a bad mood. Not to add to it, but the grey skies above don’t help either.

The sad part about human behavior is that we don’t appreciate all the beauty around us, we don’t live in the present, but instead we are either looking to the past or jumping to the future, never in the present. And then one day we look back and our lives are over and we think, dang I wish I had enjoyed that day more.

I tell my kids this each and every day, stay in the present and enjoy this very moment. There can’t be anything more precious or beautiful than right now.

We can hold our past in our memories and plan for our future, but living in the present is the most important time of our lives. Enjoy visiting the beautiful beaches of California and all the beachs in our world, for that matter.

Peace, love, and joy! The only motto to remember and to live by!

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Copyright August 2016

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Excerpt from Dear Paxton

18 Sunday Oct 2015

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College, Divorce, Literary Agents, Love, New York, Orange County, Relationships, Universities, Writers

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Slamming the front door, Lisa ran into the sanctuary of her bedroom, throwing herself down onto her bed. Quickly, she pulled Paxton close to her heart. They laid there and cried for what seemed like hours, lost in their own sorrow, for the loss of a great man and a great father.

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Julian’s Voice: A Ruby in the Rough

12 Thursday Feb 2015

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Sitting at the piano bench in an elegant white dress, with her blonde hair freely cascading down her back, sat Jewels or was it Kate?

He rubbed his eyes, trying to regain his composure. He had surely thought he had seen a ghost.  However, when he refocused, he was certain it had been his daughter, Jewels and not a ghost at all.

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Excerpt from Julian’s Voice: A Ruby in the Rough

22 Tuesday Apr 2014

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Kate flew back to Brigham Young University the next week. Jeff continued to work long hours, as his mother’s health continued to deteriorate. Within the year, his mother died in her sleep, as the doctors told him that she had a weakened heart for years.

Jeff didn’t agree with the doctors, but respected their theories. He believed differently, since he had witnessed it himself. His mother had literally died in her sleep from a broken heart.

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A Sad Heart

22 Saturday Mar 2014

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Children, College, Daughters, Joy, Love, Mothers, Separation, Sorrow, University

A Sad Heart…

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Who ever thought being a mother would be so hard? I thought it was a rough day when I walked her to her Kindergarten classroom and now I’m saying goodbye at the airport as she goes back to college.

The tears never cease to amaze me, but with the tears comes an overwhelming sense of pride for who she has become and is continuing to become with each passing day.

As I wave goodbye until next time, I am proud of myself, for she wouldn’t be who she is today if it weren’t for me, her mother.

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Going off to College…

16 Sunday Feb 2014

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Children, College, Growing up, Lost, Love, Mothers, University

Going off to College…

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I think one of the hardest things in life is leaving your child behind to begin a new life.

As mothers, we live and breathe our children. We nurture and protect them as infants, watching them as they take their first steps, walking them to their classroom in Kindergarten, going to their graduations, the prom, drivers’ education and watching them as they start their new lives at a University.

It seems as if life goes by in an instant. We know they are going to grow up, but time seems to speed up and they are grown before our very eyes. We are happy for them to start their new lives, but it is a bittersweet occasion. We spend eighteen years of our lives with them and in an instant, they are gone.

Can we really prepare ourselves for this? It has been six months now and I still wonder around the house, lost. Where did the years go? I ask myself this daily.

Enjoy each day and enjoy the moment because it goes too fast.

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