JADE & ANDY
JADE & ANDY
Pulling from their life experiences including, addictions, failures, and disappointments, John and Angel offer a message of faith, hope, resiliance, courage and survival!
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Answering unasked questions means sharing intimate details about your life that no one would know unless you open up. This topic became a major victory in my mental and emotional healing after the shooting.
In my counseling sessions, I began to share painful details that I held in my heart but never dealt with, such as my father dying when I was young. My counselors focused on helping me deal with the shooting. What surfaced was everything I had never emotionally dealt with. For me to heal, not just recover, I had to give them answers to questions they were not asking.
Answering Unasked Questions
Speaking Topics
Here is a short a summary of key presentation topics.
"Resilience means being able to adapt to life's misfortunes and setbacks.
When you have resilience, you harness the inner strength that helps you rebound from a setback or challenge, such as a job loss, an illness, a disaster or a loved one's death. If you lack resilience, you might dwell on problems, feel victimized, become overwhelmed or turn to unhealthy coping mechanisms, such as substance abuse, eating disorders or risky behaviors.
Resilience won't make your problems go away — but resilience can give you the ability to see past them."
Mayo Clinic
Chasing “Likes” means seeking unhealthy affirmation. I craved approval after my father passed away because I never got it from him. For years I acted out and tried standing out, hoping for affirmation.
In other words, I was Chasing “Likes.”
Social media has become a false source of affirmation. Millions of people create social media posts hoping to receive affirmation by people clicking “Like.” We do not have to chase likes any longer because we are loved. It is time people hear, “I love you. I am proud of you.”
Edited Version is the ability to create a make-believe scene or image that is a false truth of reality. Social Media allows us to stage scenes that appear to be our real life. Viewers become enamored by what they see. They want that life.
Sadly, the person creating the scene also hopes for a different life. When the cameras and lights are gone, and the views and likes fade they are left lonely and still hurting.
What they made was nothing more than an Edited Version of the truth.
Answering unasked questions means sharing intimate details about your life that no one would know unless you open up. This topic became a major victory in my mental and emotional healing after the shooting.
In my counseling sessions, I began to share painful details that I held in my heart but never dealt with, such as my father dying when I was young. My counselors focused on helping me deal with the shooting. What surfaced was everything I had never emotionally dealt with. For me to heal, not just recover, I had to give them answers to questions they were not asking.
Mental and emotional healing means facing your fears and pain rather than avoiding them.
Our culture teaches us to block out anything that hurts or is intrusive. The only way to truly heal is to do the hard work, dig up the root, and not simply put a band-aide on symptoms.
Get Up means, regardless of what life throws at you, arise and face the challenges of that day. After the shooting, everything was out of order.
My career and everything I worked hard for was on the verge of collapse. I was in a hospital bed and had no control over anything except choosing to fight for my life and the challenges of that day.
Getting up and choosing to live and face each day got me to the finish line. Tomorrow has enough challenges of its own; get up and overcome today!
Don't see a topic that interests you? No problem! John will gladly create
a variation or new presentation that's geared to your group or meeting theme.
