"I want the world to stop and people to freeze, and to go up to people and change their lives, make them understand:
Suicide is an excuse, not the solution."
Jennifer Jane Barry
1989-2005
"I want the world to stop and people to freeze, and to go up to people and change their lives, make them understand:
Suicide is an excuse, not the solution."
Jennifer Jane Barry
1989-2005
Hello, I'm Jenetta Barry, Founder of World Jenny's Day.
On 10 October, I lost my 16-year-old daughter to suicide.
Prophetically, 10 October is World Mental Health Day… but I'm getting ahead of myself.
During the deep depression that followed, when grief took over my entire being, I lost my marriage, home, lifestyle, livelihood, other family interactions… the black hole I was in seemed endless.
But black holes are not endless — not in the universe, nor in our souls.
It's been said that destruction is the mother of creation.
9 months after Jenny's passing, I came across the basics of what I now call The Epiphany Process
— a practice that brought me to a point of acceptance, and then to a place of being able to say,
"Depression has been my saviour. Depression has given me the insights and understandings that are now my life's work.”
On 10 October, I lost my 16-year-old daughter to suicide.
Prophetically, 10 October is World Mental Health Day… but I'm getting ahead of myself.
During the deep depression that followed, when grief took over my entire being, I lost my marriage, home, lifestyle, livelihood, other family interactions… the black hole I was in seemed endless.
But black holes are not endless — not in the universe, nor in our souls.
It's been said that destruction is the mother of creation.
9 months after Jenny's passing, I came across the basics of what I now call The Epiphany Process
— a practice that brought me to a point of acceptance, and then to a place of being able to say,
"Depression has been my saviour. Depression has given me the insights and understandings that are now my life's work.”
Why World Jenny's Day?
World Jenny's Day - Normalising Conversations Around Depression and Suicide
A note from Jenetta ...
A note from Jenetta ...
Our medical stance is that people suffering from dis-ease (not being at ease with themselves) are needing to be "fixed". Nowadays, finding the cause rather than treating the symptom is become more and more popular as people face medical challenges. It's made being ill more of an investigation and subsequent understanding - that more holistic approach.
The same is beginning to happen with people who are feeling mentally and emotionally compromised - challenged by overwhelm and depression.
After I lost my daughter to suicide and having seen how she was mostly treated, I became extremely cautious in telling anybody how I was feeling on my journey to recovering after such extreme loss. There were times in my grieving where I really didn't think I'd make it. I secretly planned my suicide three times. The moment the words "depressed" and "feeling suicidal" were uttered, everybody's energy changed around me and towards me. I appeared to have become "unsafe" and not to be trusted. In fact the human factor was taken out a lot of the time and a feeling of being treated like an object, kicked in. Sometimes it felt like they had forgotten I was still present and able to reason!
The truth is that we all feel compromised at some time in our lives. It's very human, and it's about having the skills to deal with it.
I've also noticed how when we are in our Creative zone, it's easier to deal with how we are feeling mentally and emotionally.
A natural Creative coping skill kicks in.
After all, we are Created by the Creator and are part of Creation and so when we are honouring our abilities to be Creative, we become so much more in tune with ourselves and all that is around us, through the Universe as a whole.
We connect our Inner Light to seeing the Bigger Light and that's when we can more accurately access our Innate Genius, our Inner Wisdom.
The same is beginning to happen with people who are feeling mentally and emotionally compromised - challenged by overwhelm and depression.
After I lost my daughter to suicide and having seen how she was mostly treated, I became extremely cautious in telling anybody how I was feeling on my journey to recovering after such extreme loss. There were times in my grieving where I really didn't think I'd make it. I secretly planned my suicide three times. The moment the words "depressed" and "feeling suicidal" were uttered, everybody's energy changed around me and towards me. I appeared to have become "unsafe" and not to be trusted. In fact the human factor was taken out a lot of the time and a feeling of being treated like an object, kicked in. Sometimes it felt like they had forgotten I was still present and able to reason!
The truth is that we all feel compromised at some time in our lives. It's very human, and it's about having the skills to deal with it.
I've also noticed how when we are in our Creative zone, it's easier to deal with how we are feeling mentally and emotionally.
A natural Creative coping skill kicks in.
After all, we are Created by the Creator and are part of Creation and so when we are honouring our abilities to be Creative, we become so much more in tune with ourselves and all that is around us, through the Universe as a whole.
We connect our Inner Light to seeing the Bigger Light and that's when we can more accurately access our Innate Genius, our Inner Wisdom.
Are you a performer from somewhere around the world? Maybe you're a singer, a dancer, an actor, a magician, a ventriloquist, part of a band, part of a choir. Whatever it is that you do, we're inviting you to join us on World Jenny's Day.
As we ask Where in the World is World Jenny's Day? on World Mental Health Day this October the 10th. And we're live streaming through USA Global TV and Radio for 17 hours on 10 October. We've have performers from New Zealand, Australia, Japan, Hong Kong, Kenya, Ghana, Malta, Wales, UK, USA, and Canada. We would like you, as a performing artists or artist, to add to that list of countries or have you join one of those countries, whichever one you might be in and come and join us and perform live on that day as we celebrate mental health wellness.
If this interests you, then the link here or the link mentioned on this video is the one to get hold of us so that we can have you join us and we celebrate this amazing, amazing day.
Welcome!
www.worldjennysday.com/whatshappening-2022.html
As we ask Where in the World is World Jenny's Day? on World Mental Health Day this October the 10th. And we're live streaming through USA Global TV and Radio for 17 hours on 10 October. We've have performers from New Zealand, Australia, Japan, Hong Kong, Kenya, Ghana, Malta, Wales, UK, USA, and Canada. We would like you, as a performing artists or artist, to add to that list of countries or have you join one of those countries, whichever one you might be in and come and join us and perform live on that day as we celebrate mental health wellness.
If this interests you, then the link here or the link mentioned on this video is the one to get hold of us so that we can have you join us and we celebrate this amazing, amazing day.
Welcome!
www.worldjennysday.com/whatshappening-2022.html
Jenetta & World Jenny's Day to be presented an Award at a Gala Black Tie Evening in London in November 2022
OK! Magazine and The Mirror ran articles in tribute to
World Jenny's Day - 10 October
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Jenetta on ITV News
World Jenny's Day is a not-for-profit organisation dedicated to celebrating and promoting the awareness of mental health wellness.
All proceeds donated, fund stage presentations and artistic performances as well as on-line presentations for World Jenny's Day.
Some presentations and performances will endorse and provide powerful and effective skills to enhance conversation and insight around mental health wellbeing and others are performed in celebration of mental health wellness.
Donations and fundraising made during 2022 will contribute towards the 2023 planning, operating and performance/presentation costs that such a project entails. Should any excess funds be collected, these funds will go towards World Jenny's Day 2024.
All proceeds donated, fund stage presentations and artistic performances as well as on-line presentations for World Jenny's Day.
Some presentations and performances will endorse and provide powerful and effective skills to enhance conversation and insight around mental health wellbeing and others are performed in celebration of mental health wellness.
Donations and fundraising made during 2022 will contribute towards the 2023 planning, operating and performance/presentation costs that such a project entails. Should any excess funds be collected, these funds will go towards World Jenny's Day 2024.
