Art

How community service leads to personal healingHearts of Hope provides hope and healing to everyone involved, whether you’re receiving a heart from our organization or creating one for someone else.At the Heart of It• Our events provide healing for participants through therapeutic art and result in ceramic hearts that carry a message of hope.• The…

“I didn’t talk to my daughter for more than five years. I didn’t know what hit me. I kept thinking about her and wondering where she was. My granddaughter was born, and I never knew. We are trying to ‘fix’ things now, but it’s different than before. I still miss what we used to have.”…

Have you ever woken up with your heart pounding and thoughts racing in the middle of your grief and wondered, am I the only one who feels this way? Have you gone through the motions of a day, numb and in a daze, and thought, is this normal? Have you replayed your loss over and…

Finding hope while suffering might sound at first like the platitudes we get tired of hearing. “Look on the bright side!” or “At least you still have your health!” are not the silver linings well-intentioned people think they are—not when struggles like loss, depression, and anxiety have such a life-altering impact. But hope doesn’t mean…

You may have heard of the difference between the resume virtues and the eulogy virtues. The resume virtues are skills and accomplishments in the marketplace. What prestigious school did you attend? What corporate rank did you reach? How hard did you work?  The eulogy virtues are deeper. They are the qualities people will talk about…

"Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth." - Muhammad Ali More than 300 student-athletes sat with rapt attention in a Baltimore convention center this weekend at the NCAA Student-Athlete Leadership Forum, watching the Hearts of Hope team begin their presentation with this Muhammad Ali quote. After learning about…

We are ten days away from the end of our Hope for Uvalde campaign to bring hope and healing to the Uvalde community. Thank you for joining us on our mission to bring community support and service to all those affected by the shooting at Robb Elementary. At Hearts of Hope, our staff knows from professional…

Offering support to a grieving person is a continuous process. It continues on in a healing cycle, just like grief continues and evolves over time. Tammy Miller, a teacher who brought the Hearts of Hope program to her school in Florence, Arizona, has seen how this works. As the eighth grade class at Tammy’s school…

Giving back to others helps us heal and find meaning through our own losses. For years, research has shown that helping others improves not only our well-being but our physical and mental health, too. That’s why Hearts of Hope leads therapeutic art workshops that give back to others. Creating art in itself (no matter your…