✨TEENS HUB SAFEROOM

🌈Ages 12–17 • Real • Respectful • Encouraging • Faith-based

🌿A Message to Parents & Guardians

The Teens Hub SafeRoom is a supportive, judgement-free space created for teens navigating school, friendships, emotions, and faith. It is guided by someone with more than 31 years of real classroom experience — teaching students from kindergarten through 12th grade, including special needs, and even first-generation college students. After decades of hearing teens real stories, supporting teens through real-life challenges, and helping families navigate school, friendships, emotions, and faith, Shawna brings the same heart of care into this Safe Room.

Within this SafeRoom, every message offers encouragement, comforting, faith-centered, prayerful wisdom, grounded in genuine educational and emotional experience. While Shawna is not a licensed therapist, she is an educator who has spent her life listening, guiding, and inspiring thousands of students — and she now offers that same gentle support to your teens.

Welcome. Your teen is safe here. 💛

🌈WELCOME TO THE TEENS HUB💛

Hey there! I’m truly glad you’re here.

This space was created just for teens who want:

Real encouragement

Real conversations

A reset for your mind and heart

Faith in your language

Support, understanding, and no judgment

Every Monday, you’ll find a TEEN VERSION of the Encouraging Mondays message — written for real life, real feelings, and real challenges.

⭐Parent & Teen Guidance / Disclaimer

Important Note:

The Teens Hub is designed to encourage and support teens in a safe, positive, faith-filled environment.

Teens may email questions or comments directly, but only initials or a first name will ever appear publicly.

All messages are reviewed before posting to ensure safety, respect, and encouragement.

We do not collect or store sensitive personal information.


🌈This Week’s Encouraging Message — Teens Version📖

For 12-15-2025

Theme: “Come Into the Light”

KEY VERSE:

“But if we walk in the light, as He is in the light… the blood of Jesus cleanses us from all sin.”

— 1 John 1:7

🌿TEEN MESSAGE:

Walking with God doesn’t mean walking perfectly.

It means walking honestly.

Teens need this reminder:

“You don’t have to pretend.

You don’t have to hide.

You don’t have to fix yourself before coming to God.”

✨Walking in the light means:

• being real

• being teachable

• being willing to grow

• letting God show you what leads to peace

And spiritually, mentally, and physically — light leads to freedom.

TEMPLE CARE FOR TEENS — “What You Eat Is Spiritual Too”

🌞Tell them:

“Your mind and mood are deeply connected to what you eat.”

Hidden sugars, high-sodium foods, and processed snacks affect:

• your energy

• your focus

• anxiety

• mood swings

• your ability to hear God clearly

💛Encourage:

“Pay attention to ingredients.

Choose foods that give life, not ones that drain you.”

🌿TEEN REFLECTION QUESTION

  1. Where in my life do I need to step back into God’s light?

  2. What is one hidden habit — physical or spiritual — I want God to shine on?

  3. What is one food or drink I can swap for a healthier, lighter choice?

🙏🏼 CLOSING PRAYER FOR TEENS

“Lord, shine Your light on my heart.

Help me walk honestly with You.

Help me choose what strengthens my spirit, mind, and body.

Guide me into real change.

In Your Name, Jesus, we Pray, Amen.”

🌈Much love for you all!!! Have an amazingly fun, safe, Blessed day and week! 💛


💛Real TALK TEENS — MONTHLY FOCUS

🌈Theme Title:

Standing Strong When the Pressure Is On

🌈Core Truth:

Peer pressure can make good people feel rushed, confused, or pulled into choices they don’t really want to make.

You are not weak for feeling pressure —

but you are strong when you pause and choose what’s right for you.

🌈What Peer Pressure Can Look Like:

Peer pressure isn’t always obvious.

🌈It can look like:

  • friends pushing you to do something you don’t feel comfortable with

  • feeling left out if you don’t go along with the crowd

  • being told “everyone’s doing it”

  • feeling like you have to change who you are to belong

Pressure can be quiet — but it can still be heavy.

⭐What You Can Remember:

  • You don’t have to decide in the moment

  • You don’t owe anyone an explanation for protecting yourself

  • Saying “no” doesn’t make you fake — it makes you wise

  • Real friends won’t pressure you to betray your values

Sometimes the strongest move is to step back.

✨Faith Connection:

God cares about the choices you make — not to control you, but to protect you.

You are never alone when you choose what’s right, even if it feels lonely at first.

God gives wisdom when you ask — and courage when you need it.

Practical Tip (Simple + Realistic):

If you feel pressured:

  • pause before responding

  • trust that uneasy feeling — it matters

  • talk to a trusted adult or safe person

  • remember: pressure fades, but consequences can last

🌈Monthly Reminder Line:

I can pause. I can choose. I can stand strong

🙏🏼Prayer for Teens

“God, help me rise above stress, fear, and pressure.

Give me wisdom, strength, and peace.

Guide my choices, my friendships, and my future.

Help me become everything You created me to be.

In Jesus’ Name, Amen.”


💛Want to Talk or Ask Something?

Your voice matters.

Your story matters.

Your questions matter.

You can email me directly here with parents’ permission, authority, and help:

📬Your Email Here:

shawnasencouragingmondays@gmail.com

No judgement.

No pressure.

Just support, love, and truth.

⭐Never Forget:

You matter.

Your life has purpose.

You are capable of incredible things.

God is guiding your journey — even when you can’t see the next step.

Come back each week.

Grow. Heal. Become.

🥗NUTRITIONAL INSIGHT HUB:

POEM TITLE: 💪🏼Strong From the Inside

**Your body is a story

God is writing every day.

What you feed it shapes your energy,

your focus, and your way.

Fast food isn’t villainous —

it’s just not built to last.

Your mind deserves the long-term

not the cheapest, quickest past.

Choose foods that give you clarity,

strength to guard your peace…

When you honor what God gave you,

your confidence increases. **💛

🌈Why the Rainbow?

In Scripture, the rainbow is a reminder of God’s promises, faithfulness, and care.

In our SafeRoom spaces, the rainbow represents hope, protection, and the reminder that you are never alone — even on hard days.


📚Books Some Families Have Found Helpful

From time to time, parents ask about books that support faith, emotional growth, confidence, and meaningful family conversations. The titles shared here are simply optional suggestions that some families have found helpful for teens.

These books are chosen with care — keeping age-appropriateness, positive messages, and opportunities for discussion in mind. Many are easy or engaging reads that can also support reading comprehension and connection between parents and teens.

Encouraging Mondays is not affiliated with these books or authors, and no purchases are required. Parents are always encouraged to preview materials and prayerfully choose what best fits their teens and family.

  • Called to Be a Champion: The Ultimate Bible-Based Playbook for Young Athletes
    Suggested ages: 13–18

  • Uplifting Words for Young Men: Build Personal Strength, Confidence, and a Positive Vision of Self
    Suggested ages: 11–18

  • Unbreakable Young Men: 15 Inspirational Stories to Build Mental Strength, Purpose, and Confidence
    Suggested ages: 13–18

  • 10-Minute Bible Stories for Teens
    Suggested ages: 14+

  • Bible Stories for Teens (Minutes with Jesus Series)
    Suggested ages: 10–16

  • Everything Teen Boys Should Know: 100+ Essential Life Skills for the Teenage Years
    Suggested ages: 12–15

  • Everything You Need to Know Before You’re 16 (But Won’t Get Taught in School)
    Suggested ages: 13–16

  • Sunday School Lessons for Teens: A Bible-Based Guide for Connecting Faith and Life
    Suggested ages: 13–19

🌈STAY CONNECTED

Encouraging Mondays is more than a website — it’s a growing community of faith, reflection, and peaceful transformation. If God has been speaking to your heart through these messages, I’d love for you to stay connected throughout the week. Each platform gives you a unique way to receive encouragement, grow spiritually, and walk in God’s perfect peace.

LinkedIn — Weekly Encouragement & Reflections

https://www.linkedin.com/in/shawna-stately-853771390

YouTube — Encouraging Mondays Video Messages

http://www.youtube.com/@EncouragingMondays

Podcast Devotionals With Shawna S. — Listen on the Go

https://open.spotify.com/show/3pT2RcBNOKpa8A2vuYIJ4W

Wherever you choose to connect, may these messages speak life to your spirit and peace to your heart! . 💛