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Here's your sign...think before you speak!
This is not meant to be a shame fest. It is about awareness and learning other realities so that maybe you, like me, will change our...
Friends
Jun 18, 201910 min read
Adoption Day!
HAPPY DAY!!! There are a lot of “dates” that led up to Adoption Day; June 17, 2011. Yet, this date, was the very best date. June 17, 2011...
Manda Jones
Jun 16, 20194 min read
The Fourth and Final
We always call our daughter the “fourth and final.” The situation with her was much different than the boys even though, they share birth...
Manda Jones
Jun 12, 20193 min read
Our Finale
Written & Edited by: Manda Jones; Editor in Chief & CEO of Manda & Friends In every stage life brings us, journey's end and new begin....
Manda Jones
Jun 9, 20194 min read
Kaliah's Adoption Story
By: Heidi Marie Kaliah was born on February 16, 2015, she came home on February 22, 2015, and she became ours forever on June 23, 2017....
Friends
Jun 7, 20192 min read
The Roller Coaster Is Real
Written & Edited By: Manda Jones; Editor in Chief & CEO of Manda & Friends LLC I remember sitting in the room with my husband and our...
Manda Jones
Jun 4, 201915 min read
One Birth Mom's Story
By: Jamie Burton; MBA, Executive Director of Christian Family Services Fall of my junior year of college. Beautiful mountain air, the...
Friends
May 31, 201912 min read
Alumni Soundtrack!
By: Manda Jones (Editor in Chief and CEO of Manda & Friends) Alumni is coming up! It’s not MY year! Next year will mark 15 years since...
Manda Jones
May 29, 20192 min read
Nathan's Story & Playlist
By: Nathan Reedy Edited by: Manda Jones (Editor in Chief & CEO of Manda & Friends) What’s my story? My Name is Nathan Reedy. My life has...
Friends
May 29, 20197 min read
Lost and Alone: Part One
My mom was just in utter pain. The worst kind of pain. The pain that changes the way a person is. Who they are, how they act, even the...
Friends
May 23, 20199 min read
Chrissy's Playlist
Authored by: Chrissy Huckleberry (Edited by Manda Jones: Editor in Chief & CEO of Manda & Friends) My playlist changes all the time. Some...
Friends
May 22, 20194 min read
Working in a Broken System
Written by: Victoria Steel; Bachelors Degree in Psychology, Masters Degree in Counseling Psychology, LPC. As a crisis therapist I see...
Friends
May 15, 20197 min read
Manda's Playlist
As old as time, artists put their work out there for your interpretation. Music is a coping skill that I use to help combat the symptoms...
Manda Jones
May 9, 20199 min read
The Bipolar Schizoaffective that Never was....
Written by: Seahorse 8 I was a 23-year-old student at Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in Halifax in 1988 when two friends and I...
Friends
Apr 20, 20195 min read
Feeling ALL the Feels
IOP (Intensive Outpatient) is an experience I thought I would hate and ended up with a sisterhood, validation, love, support, and the...
Manda Jones
Mar 5, 20195 min read
"That's my Love!"
By discharge day no one had any ideas of keeping me past the hold I signed, they knew that my husband and I would not allow that to...
Manda Jones
Feb 27, 20194 min read
The Phantom Doctor
The Phantom Doctor On the Outside written by my husbands accounts follow my perspective. We encourage any of the faculty from Mountain...
Manda Jones
Feb 20, 201911 min read
Resources...the struggle is daily.
After completing the portion of the story, I did yesterday and posting the blog, “I” Snapped, “She” Snapped, I have had crippling...
Manda Jones
Feb 16, 20193 min read
"I" Snapped, "She" Snapped
“I” Snapped "I" Snapped, "She" Snapped... the story from both my husbands and my points of view... I was at my breaking point. I had told...
Manda Jones
Feb 15, 20198 min read
Mental Illness does NOT equal crazy…
2018 was a real year … The kind of year that truly breaks you in two. It is not a simple break, it is complex and pieces go missing...
Manda Jones
Feb 10, 20196 min read
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