03 Monday Apr 2017
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Adolescence, Author, Charities, Faith, Family, Friends, Help, Love, Non-profits, Photography, Suicide, Support Groups, TEEN DEPRESSION, The Jewels' Angels Foundation
FAITH
Faith to believe in something greater than who we are and where you are today.
Written By: Ask Ms Mandi
Photograph By: Ask Ms Mandi
Copyright April 2017
01 Saturday Apr 2017
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Author, Awareness, Depression, Family, Friends, Hawaii, Hope, Life, Love, Motivational Speaking, Parents, Photography, Suicide Prevention, Support Groups, TEEN DEPRESSION, The Jewels' Angels Foundation
HOPE
The Jewels Angels’ Foundation, Inc.
You’re not alone in this life’s journey.
http://suicidepreventionlifeline.org/
Photograph By: Ask Ms Mandi
Copyright March 2017
30 Thursday Mar 2017
Posted in Just a PERFECT Thought
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Adolescence, Author, Awareness, Families, Foundation, Friends, Help, Love, Mentors, Motivational Speaking, News, Parents, Suicide, Support Groups, TEEN DEPRESSION, The Jewels' Angels Foundation
LITTLE REMINDERS
I’m driving home from a weekend in the Eastern Sierra Mountains. A place that has always brought me peace; except for recently, the peace has been replaced with the deepest sadness and despair.
Am I crying as I drive through the winding hills and valleys? I must be, although I don’t seem to notice much anymore, considering this an everyday occurrence.
Hopelessness washes over me as I fiddle with the iPod left behind, but has somehow become my security blanket into her mind.
Randomly the song changes from the Eagles to Blink 182, one of her favorite bands. It’s a song I have not heard, called Not Now. I intently listen to the lyrics… instantly mesmerized by them.
The song calls out to me…”God has a plan for you”
“I will be waiting”
“I wish I could give you one last kiss”
As the tears stream down my face, I look up to the mountains, covered with powdery, white snow and see a cross. As clear as day… a cross in the mountain formed from the melting snow.
At that moment a sense of comfort washes over me…she is always here with me and waiting for the day I will see her again.
Written By: Ask Ms Mandi
Photograph By: Ask Ms Mandi
Copyright March 30, 2017
23 Thursday Mar 2017
Posted in Just a PERFECT Thought
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Abusive Relationships, Adolescence, Angles, Anxiety, Bullying, Cyber Bullying, Depression, Family, God, Help, Hope, Love, Psychiatric, Psychology, Religion, Satan, Social Media, Suicidal Thoughts, Suicide, Support Groups, TEEN DEPRESSION, Teen Suicide
ANGELS
Angels are all around us, with the reminder of…
a simple thought,
a shiver down our spine,
a song,
a poem,
a kind word,
a rainbow,
a hummingbird,
a butterfly,
a thoughtful gesture,
a memory.
Why are they here, but to remind us that we are not alone.
Written By: Ask Ms Mandi
Photograph By: Ask Ms Mandi
Copyright March 23, 2017
20 Monday Mar 2017
Posted in Poems
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Adolescence, Family, Help, Hope, Love, Suicide, Support Groups, TEEN DEPRESSION, Teen Suicide, The Jewels' Angels Foundation, Therapy
REALISTIC
I spend time in your room,
I look at your photographs,
I listen to your videos,
I read your poetry,
but I don’t feel that you were real.
I see you,
I know you were real,
I can still smell you,
I know you are with me,
but I don’t feel you.
Perhaps it’s my mind’s way of protecting me from what’s real,
I don’t want to believe you’re gone,
I don’t want to put your things away,
Perhaps, if I just pretend you were real, you will not go away,
I think not.
Written By: Ask Ms Mandi
Photograph By: JCW
Copyright: March 20, 2017
12 Sunday Mar 2017
Posted in Just a PERFECT Thought
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Depression, Help, Hotline, Life, Mental Illness, Prevention, Suicidal Thoughts, Suicide, Support Groups, TEEN DEPRESSION, Teen Suicide
THE MASK
People are always asking me, “How are you?”
What am I supposed to say when I don’t even know how I am.
How am I supposed to be?
How do they want me to be? That is more like it…how would you like me to be?
I get up every morning, with struggle, but I do it because I know that is what is expected of me.
I go to work and try to be the super star everyone has always expected from me…hell, I even expected it from me. Lack of ambition and drive were never a weakness to me.
I put on my make-up, wash my hair, and put on the warrior face everyday. “How are you, they ask?” “I’m okay and how are you.” I respond.
I act as they wish me to act…
But they don’t see the demons in my head at night, once the sun sets behind the sky. The overwhelming loneliness that has become my life. My new life.
I’m supposed to find a different life they tell me, my old life is gone and I will never be the same, especially after losing a child to suicide…this is what the experts tell me.
But the thing is, I don’t want a new life…I liked my old life. I miss my old life and all the little things I took for granted.
I miss cooking dinner at night while Jewels did her homework.
I miss getting take-out at Miguel’s Jr. on Tuesday nights.
I miss hugging her.
I miss smelling her.
I miss her laugh.
I miss her burps.
I miss her kind soul, when she would get mad at me for being mean.
I miss her messy room.
I miss the towels on the floor.
I miss her beside me while I drove her to school.
I miss my best friend.
I miss my daughter.
I miss her…
If you know someone who is thinking of suicide, talk to them, comfort them and let them know that they are not alone, help is everywhere, they don’t really want to die, they just want the pain to end.
Call: 1-800-273-TALK
Go to: suicidepreventionlifeline.org
Written By: Ask Ms Mandi
Photography By: Ask Ms Mandi
Copyright: March 12, 2017
02 Thursday Mar 2017
Posted in POEMS By Jewels
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Adolescence, Education, Fireworks, Help, High, Hope, Mental Health, Parents, Suicidal Thoughts, Suicide, Support Groups, TEEN DEPRESSION, Therapy
Poem By: Jewels
Firework
JCW
02/08/16
Life is just like a firework
it soars and screams
Upward it flies
The upward journey
is loud and significant
Life is like a firework
The rocket then pops
and sparks.
It is the climax
And then the colors disappear
Into NOTHINGNESS.
Life is like a firework.
20 Monday Feb 2017
Posted in POEMS By Jewels
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Adolescence, Author, Help, Hope, Mental Illness, Mentors, Poem, Suicidal Thoughts, Support Groups, TEEN DEPRESSION, Writer
JCW
02/20/16
Imagination
Clouds in the blue sky,
I don’t only see the clouds…
Imagination.
Happiness
In the grass I lay,
Flowers and birds come to stay.
Sunny, sunny day.
Art Work By: JCW
11 Saturday Feb 2017
Posted in Just a PERFECT Thought
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Adolescence, College, Family, Friends, high school, Hope, Life, Mental Health, Suicide, Support Groups, TEEN DEPRESSION
LOST
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.
Written By: Ask Ms Mandi
Photography By: Ask Ms Mandi
Copyright February 11, 2017
09 Thursday Feb 2017
Posted in Just a PERFECT Thought
Tags
Adolescence, God, Help, Hope, Mental Health, Parents, Religion, Suicide, Support Groups, TEEN DEPRESSION
Are you Serious?
One of my wonderful bloggers sent me a great article on Teen Depression and this is a quote from the authors at Watch Tower Bible & Tract Society of Pennsylvania:
“Take seriously any comments or hints regarding suicide”
Teens don’t always want to talk to us…especially their parents, so we when they do speak out, it is very important for us to listen to them…I mean really listen!
Photography By: Ask Ms Mandi
Copyright July 08, 2016
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