Featured Members and Project Updates

We are going to start our fund raising drive for the completion of the first mural mosaic. With your help, we expect this fundraiser to be a great success. If you are interested in signing up for the first mural please contact us. Thanks to Michelle Major from Be A Voice Arts (http://www.beavoicearts.com/), the first master image is now complete and we are seeking more artists to paint individual panels.

Thank you to everyone who has already picked up their panels at Amnesty’s Human Rights Art Festival in Maryland. We are looking forwarding to seeing your designs come into fruition, as well as the designs of those artists waiting patiently for their panels both here in the US and abroad.

If you are interested in helping us with these fund raising efforts or in painting a panel, please contact us directly at dvmemorialproject@gmail.com.

Domestic Violence Memorial is a sponsored project of Fractured Atlas, a non-profit arts service organization. Contributions in behalf of Domestic Violence Memorial may be made payable to Fractured Atlas. Any contribution to Fractured Atlas is tax-deductible to the extent permitted by law.

Kathy Reed One of the greatest things I love about this project is the chance to meet new and wonderful people. One of the most recent is Kathy Reed, who has accomplished her life long dream of writing a book to help her aunt who is suffer from Multiple Sclerosis. Kathy began this book as a paper for a health class in college as an attempt to help her aunt, and it later became a story about Suzanne and ways to help others suffering from the disease. Kathy is the mother of two children. She works at the University of Kentucky and lives in Lexington, Kentucky.

Multiple Sclerosis: The Many Faces of the Disease, is a non-fiction autoimmune disease story revolving around Suzanne McCuiston Bradley, a woman plagued with Multiple Sclerosis (MS) for most of her life. In the beginning, the focus is on symptoms and early indicators of the disease. Although the National MS Society estimates that about 400,000 people have the disease, no one knows for certain. This alarming number can have serious impacts on people with MS, as well as loved ones and caregivers. A case study of Suzanne reveals her life and how she suffered from this debilitating disease. It shows how she was able to overcome in certain circumstances and how she was merely able to survive in other situations. Her life is discussed before and during MS. This story was originally about helping her find a cure, or at least relief. Later, it became about helping other people deal with the emotional and physical symptoms of MS. While one chapter is specifically about Suzanne, her battle is tied into the other chapters as well. She is used as an example whenever possible. Writing this book helped gain insight into the true life of Suzanne. The goal was to learn primarily what science could not yet answer: why this disease occurs and how to cure it. Despite the fact that these answers do not really exist, hopefully one day they will exist, this story examines these questions and other areas relative to Multiple Sclerosis.

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Cymry Mongan Cymry Mongan is a Master Therapeutic Imagery Facilitator, Intuitive Crystal and Energy Healer, Certified Clinical Hypnotherapist, Past-Life Regression Therapist, and Angel Imagery Practitioner.  Cymry graduated with honors from the Hypnosis Motivation Institute, the nation’s leading accredited college of Hypnotherapy.  She also has a Master’s Degree in Clinical Psychology from Pepperdine University and is an ordained Minister with the Universal Life Church.   Cymry recognizes the important connection between Mind, Body and Spirit.  As a therapist and spiritual counselor, Cymry helps clients clear away negative energy and limiting beliefs in order to let go of the past and create the Future they desire.  She uses her knowledge, training, and natural talents to provide clients with the mental and spiritual tools needed to raise Conscious awareness, while gently guiding them on their path to personal freedom and possibility. Cymry integrates subconscious imagery, chakra balancing, crystal energy, spirituality, and conscious creation techniques to help you let go of old aspects of yourself that do not serve your Highest Good, freeing you to discover and embrace your true Life Purpose! http://colormychakras.com http://cymrymongan.com/

 

Danielle is the monthly contributor to LadyBug Flights an online magazine Domestic Violence Column called Fly Away Home. She is the author of “From Deep Within – blind and bruised” and co-founder of the International Domestic Violence Memorial. She is also the lead project manager for the IDVM’s “Glass Artwork, Votives and Fused Glass” panels. 

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