ToWriteLoveOnHerArms

my 3 palettes containing the Columbine color for the Color Study Palettes series will each have a special significance to me…

To Write Love on Her Arms is a non-profit movement dedicated to presenting hope and finding help for people struggling with depression, addiction, self-injury and suicide. For its founders, it began as a 5-day personal attempt to help a friend, a real girl named Renee. Driven by her past, her depression and with drugs still in her system, she locked herself in a bathroom and used a razorblade to write "FUCK UP" large across her left forearm. A nurse at a treatment center found the wound several hours later. The center had no detox, named her too great a risk and would not accept her. Jamie Tworkowski, who heads the organization wrote: ”We become her hospital and the possibility of healing fills our living room with life. It is unspoken and there are only a few of us, but we will be her church, the body of Christ coming alive to meet her needs, to write love on her arms.”

Their vision is saturated in fostering hope, treatment, recovery for broken and hurting people.
As it says on their website: You were created to love and be loved. You were meant to live life in relationship with other people, to know and be known.You need to know that your story is important and that you're part of a bigger story. You need to know that your life matters.
www.twloha.com