Speak Life End Bullying

Speak Life End Bullying Speak Life The Musical follows a day in the life of four high school students giving us a glimpse into their public personas and private struggles.

Speak Life End Bullying is a suite of resources designed to aid schools, families, communities, and faith-based organizations in combating bullying and strengthening mental health resiliency for our students. Things are not always as they seem. The fight up the social ladder is brutal. Too many are crushed, broken, forgotten. This life changing musical gives a voice to the silent outcast, challenging everyone to STAND, SPEAK and DEFEND. One voice can create change!

06/10/2026

A hard truth I have learned about summer break…

Just because school is out doesn’t mean the bullying ends for our kids. 🥲

For many teens, friendships, social media, group chats, and online gaming mean that hurtful words can still follow them long after the last school bell rings.

And sadly, many teens don’t know when or even how to talk about it.

Sometimes it shows up as irritability. Pulling away from family. Spending more time alone. Or seeming completely fine on the outside while they’re carrying something heavy underneath.

❤️ As moms, we don’t have to have all the right answers. But we can keep creating opportunities for conversation. We can remind our kids that their value isn’t determined by what someone says about them online. We can help them process what they’re carrying instead of carrying it alone.

Sometimes all it takes is the right story to open a door that felt closed. 🚪

That’s why we created the Speak Life film, to help families start honest conversations about bullying, self-worth, mental health, and the power of their words.

💡Comment HOME and we’ll send you the film. This could open up the most important conversations you want to be having with your teens this summer!

06/09/2026

☀️Creating a summer plan with your Teens

Feeling unmotivated is such a normal feeling for teens over summer break.

They have just finished a marathon year of school, sports, after school commitments and lots of demands and deadlines. Even thinking about a summer schedule can feel overwhelming to them.

🛏️ Sometimes, what looks like laziness is actually uncertainty. They’re in that in-between space where they’re no longer kids who need every second of their day planned, but they’re not fully adults either. They want more freedom to plan their day to day, but they don’t always know what to do with all their free time.

As parents, it’s easy for us to focus on the messy room, the sleeping in, the endless scrolling, or the lack of initiative. But often what our kids need most isn’t more pressure. They need us to come alongside and help them create a summer worth getting up for. 🥳

Starting with a simple conversation can go a long way:

▪️ Ask them what they want this summer to be about.
▪️ Help them identify a few goals that actually matter to them.
▪️ Create a simple rhythm or routine together that supports those goals.
▪️ Keep checking in in a kind supportive way.

The goal isn’t to fully plan or control their summer schedule.

🤝 Instead, we get to come alongside them so they learn how to create their own goals and plans to live a summer they are proud of. A summer where they feel growth in who they’re becoming, what they are experiencing, what they are learning, and what they ultimately want to accomplish.

Our teens don’t always need us to push harder. In fact, summer should feel slower, full of fun and a time to make forever kind of memories.

A little direction can help them create a summer full of intention so they have goals worth moving toward. 💛

06/05/2026

For a moment, Daniel’s story became her story…

“What was it about the character Daniel from the film that you connected with?” we asked a student at Ft Lauderdale High School.

Her answer was a heartbreaking one we have heard many times over. 💔

“Because growing up, I dealt with bullying too.”

The feelings she saw Daniel walking through were all too familiar. Feeling left out. Feeling like you don’t belong. Feeling like disappearing would somehow be easier than carrying what you’re carrying.

🥹 We know that there were dozens of other students in that room who understood exactly what she meant.

That’s why creating space for these conversations matters.

Sometimes the first step toward hope is realizing you’re not the only one feeling what you’re feeling.

▪️Keep asking.
▪️ Keep listening.
▪️ Keep showing up.

Create space for the conversation that might change everything for your teen. 💛

❤️ If you are looking for a way to create safe conversations in your home with your teen, comment HOME and we will send you the link!

06/03/2026

When we ask school leaders what stands out most about the Speak Life experience, the answer is often the conversations that happen afterward.

One principal shared:

“The music made it easier for them to connect with the message. The variety of characters made it possible for everyone to have someone that they identified with.”

When students see pieces of their own story reflected on screen, it creates space for reflection, empathy, and honest conversation. 🫶

He also shared: “Nobody ever considers themselves a bully. No one realizes that they themselves may be acting in a way that’s bullying, but when you look at your behavior through the lens of others, you might be able to see things that you have done that hurt someone else’s feelings.”

That’s what makes these conversations so important. Students aren’t just thinking about what has happened to them. They’re also beginning to consider the impact their own words and actions have on others. 🤔

As this principal put it:

“It really provides an opportunity for dialogue to go a bit deeper.”

When students feel safe enough to share their stories, real change can begin.

If you’d like to bring these conversations to your school, comment MYSCHOOL and we’ll send you more information. ❤️

06/02/2026

5 Mistakes Parents Make That Hurt Communication With Their Teens (And How to Avoid Them) 💛

I have spent way too much time while raising my teens wondering if I was getting it wrong.

As parents, we replay conversations in our heads over and over. We wonder if we said too much, not enough, or completely missed what our teen was trying to tell us.

Healthy communication isn’t built in one perfect conversation. It’s built in hundreds of small moments where our kids slowly learn they’re safe to share their struggles and successes with us.

You have been building the foundations for good communication with your kids since their very first words. Now that they are grown, trust that groundwork and keep building it with new strategies that work during their teen years.

Maintaining trust and safety inside our communication is the key to helping them open up what’s really going on in their world.

That is the goal we want to set every single day 🤍

One of the biggest myths about parenting teens?That they don’t need connection with us anymore. ❌There are a lot of chan...
06/01/2026

One of the biggest myths about parenting teens?

That they don’t need connection with us anymore. ❌

There are a lot of changes in our relationships with our kids as they enter their teen years. They may not want us to walk them into school or sit next to them at an event. They might spend more time with friends, stay up later than we do, and feel like they’re completely independent.

🥰 Truth is…underneath all of that self discovery, they still deeply desire connection with us.

They need hugs, family dinners, movie nights, boundaries, traditions, and those random conversations that somehow happen at 11:30 at night when you’re ready to go to sleep.

Sometimes as parents, we pull back from connection because we think that’s what growing up requires.

But many of the things that helped our kids feel loved, safe, and secure when they were little are still the very things helping them feel loved, safe, and secure now.

The teen years change a lot but their need for connection will never change!

❤️ Keep showing up.
❤️ Keep saying “I love you.”
❤️ Keep leaning in.

That is how we can Speak Life to our teens everyday!

05/28/2026

Some students carry pain so quietly that the people around them never realize how heavy it’s become. 😫

Our most important mission is to remind our teens that they do not have to carry those heavy thoughts alone.

During a conversation at Glades Middle School, a student bravely shared about struggling with thoughts of wanting to disappear like the character Daniel in the film. He was in 6th grade and going through a very difficult time. Talking to a trusted adult became a turning point.

Friends matter deeply. Community matters deeply. But we need students to know that there is always someone standing on the shore…a trusted adult with wisdom, perspective, and support who can help guide them through what feels impossible. ❤️

If you’ve ever heard a child say things like “I wish I could disappear” or “It would be better if I wasn’t here,” please take those words very seriously. Come alongside them and remind them there is help, hope, and people who want to walk with them through it. Then stay with them until they have the full support they need. 🤝

If you’re a student reading this, we want to encourage you that you are not alone. Your life matters more than you know. There are people who love and support you that we want you to open up to. You don’t have to carry these heavy thoughts alone! 🫶🏻

Comment “MYSCHOOL” to find out how you can open up these important conversations with your students by bringing Speak Life to your school or community program this summer or fall.

05/27/2026

School may be almost out for summer, but our kids still need safe conversations, connection, and support. ☀️

Building trust with our teens takes time. There’s no perfect script for the hard topics, but showing up consistently matters more than getting every word right. ❤️

Want practical tools to help talk about bullying and mental health with your teen? Comment “HOME” below, and we’ll send you details!

One of the hardest parts of parenting is watching our teens wrestle with their self-worth. Discovering who they are whil...
05/26/2026

One of the hardest parts of parenting is watching our teens wrestle with their self-worth.

Discovering who they are while the world constantly tries to tell them who they should be is a daily challenge every teen faces.

Comparison, bullying, social media, friend groups, pressure to fit in… it all has a way of shaping the way our teens see themselves. As parents, we can support them by being intentional about helping them build a strong sense of self-worth at home. ❤️

✨ Inside our Speak Life at Home parent resources, we talk about practical ways we can help our teens recognize their value beyond other people’s opinions and hurtful words.

Not through perfection or performance, but through consistent reminders of who they are and how much they matter.

Just a few simple tools can help build resilience, confidence, and healthier self-belief in our homes.

Comment TOOLS and we’ll send you a link to the Speak Life at Home resources ❤️

05/22/2026

This week, we had the incredible privilege of partnering with Boys & Girls Clubs of Metro Denver for a special event hosted by Justin and Taryn Simmons alongside more than 200 students from clubs across the Denver area.

🥳 From the moment students arrived, the excitement in the room was contagious! Justin greeted students as they entered, taking photos and spending time connecting with them before everyone headed into the theater with popcorn, soda, and so much anticipation for the film to begin.

As the story unfolded on the big screen, students sat completely engaged, responding to so many moments throughout the film. But as always, some of the most powerful moments happened after the credits rolled.

🎙️ As Justin led the Q&A, students bravely shared their own stories and the characters they connected with. One sweet young girl stood up to share about her experience with bullying, apologizing through tears because it was hard to get the words out. Another student shared how deeply she connected with Daniel and the feeling of wanting to disappear under the weight of bullying, stress, and pressure at school.

Moments like these remind us why these conversations matter so much. ❤️

Students need spaces where they feel safe enough to be honest about what they’re carrying and trusted adults who are willing to listen with empathy and encouragement. Justin spoke life and support into every student who shared, and students were connected back with their club leaders and ongoing mental health support. 🤝

We are so grateful to Boys and Girls Clubs of Metro Denver for the opportunity to partner on such a meaningful event, and we are endlessly thankful for Justin and Taryn Simmons, who continue to use their platform and partnership to help create conversations that can truly change a student’s life forever. 🤍

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