Healing HeArts Help Needed

Healing HeArts Help Needed

Mar 08, 2022

Hello Friends and HeArtlovers,

Today is an emotional day, and I need help. It is my dead stepdad Carl's birthday. He died 8 years ago, just weeks before he would have been 50. His birthday falls on International Women's Day and is an annual reminder of the complicated relationship we had. He used to domestically abuse my mother after drinking when I was a kid. He even ended up in prison as a result. I was afraid of him, but I also loved him and felt confused by the cognitive dissonance. I sought out understanding and learned so much about addiction and trauma because of him. We mended our relationship after he found sobriety when I was an adult, and I was holding him when he died. Carl was really proud of me as a teacher for leading and inspiring others.

This year, I designed and worked on a collaborative art project Healing HeArts. We tied our broken hearts together and shared survivor stories of experience, strength, and hope. 26 people worked together on it. Healing HeArts is composed of 100% upcycled rubbish found on the beach/bins to make 15 strands of a bead curtain with an expanding rainbow HeArt pattern, how I imagine healing to look. It will go to exhibition at Earth Body Blood Water https://facebook.com/events/s/earth-body-blood-water-art-for/355512892927440/ an exhibition to inspire conversations about exploring the connection between violence against women and violence against the environment. #conversationchangeseverything

I need your help:

1. Support this project financially by donating to get shipping costs covered (10,290 baht =$316)

www.paypal.me/parkervalerie

2. Support my research: I'm fundraising $777 for Trauma-Awareness Training beginning in April. www.buymeacoffee.com/ValerieParker this will help me hone skills as a Creative (Re)Discovery coach and bring digital content for children of ALL ages through my YouTube channel MVP's Inspiration Station https://youtu.be/gvlBa-ot6Vw

Trauma-Awareness Training https://facebook.com/events/s/certified-trauma-awareness-tra/461130432383078/

Plus, check out my Facebook group about healing through art and play: MVP's Creative (Re) Discovery https://www.facebook.com/groups/226886019465974/

Thanks for caring about my HeArt!

Stay fun, funky, and functional, my friends,

πŸ’—β€πŸ§‘πŸ’›πŸ’šπŸ’™πŸ’œπŸ€ŽπŸ–€πŸ€ πŸ™‰πŸ™ˆπŸ™Š

Miss Valerie Parker (MVP), Eduformer*

(activist who hopes to inspire through performance, arts, and writing)

www.MissValerieParker.com

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