Thank you for showing interest in the Orange Lily Project!

At present there are four ways to get involved...

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1. Youtube Interviews

2. Workbook activities

3. Recovery Letters

4. Donors

 

1. Youtube Interviews
Beginning now and ending never, I am welcoming interviews from anyone who identifies as remotely affiliated with self-harm. I want to produce educational TRIGGER FREE videos to go onto Youtube so anyone who finds themselves remotely associated with self-harm can easily access (safe) resources from people like them.  I’m located in PITTSBURGH PA but if there were a bunch of people at say a college who were willing to be interviewed I’m totally up for a road trip. I could also interview via skype.

 

Who I’m looking for:
Are you currently or recovering from self-harm and want to share your story and tips for getting better? Are you an addict in general and though you might not cut/burn/etc, you think you still count? Are you a parent or family member who want to share advice with other family members who are likely afraid for their child? Are you in the mental health field and have mental/emotional care tips? Are you a priest, rabbi, spiritual elder, and does your scripture have anything to say by way of hope and healing? As a spiritual leader, do you have advice for other leaders as to how to love these congregation members who are hurting? Are you a doctor who has anything you can tell us about the body and addiction? Are you a tattoo artist who has ever noticed cuts, or offered to cover old scars with something beautiful? Are you a teacher or guidance counselor and you want to come alongside your co-workers or students who are hurting?
If you said yes to any of these roles, would you be willing to sit for an interview to help spread the word that hope and recovery is possible? That people like you are not alone? Maybe to be the help you never had?

2. Workbook Activities
The first 3 months clean are the hardest. There’s joy and pure gold on day 91, but you have to survive the first 90 days without relapsing or rebounding onto something else addictive or destructive. Instead of a traditional dissertation, my graduation project will be to produce a 90-day workbook designed to help the withdrawing self-harmer through the first 3 months. The book will have 3 activities a day (morning afternoon, night) to help the reader get in touch with their body, mind, and soul and promote overall wellness.

Of the 270 activities, they will include but not be limited to:
Getting in touch with nature... Poem prompts... Yoga... Psalms and devotionals... Art projects... EMDR... Helpful withdrawal tips...

Got any activity suggestions or withdrawal tips? Would love to hear it!

 

3. Recovery Letters

At the beginning of each activity and chapter I want a letter from a recovering self-harmer, encouraging them to keep going. The idea being that as the reader is going through these hardest first three months they have a cloud of nearly 300 recovering self-harmers alongside them. If you are currently in recovery from addiction I absolutely welcome a letter!

 

4. Donors

And what if you don’t qualify for the interviews or workbook?? How can you help???? Well I’m also accepting prayer and money!!!!

 

Prayer because as a recovering cutter myself I need help staying strong through all of this.  I'll be going down dark roads again to find people, old desires will likely come back, and in the midst of all this I need to maintain a 3.5 for my graduate level course to keep my scholarship!

 

Money because I’m a grad student, broke, and will hopefully be making a bunch of road trips for this.  Money will go towards tuition, room and board, gas for the out of town interviews, and later on down the road a laptop (current model was purchased in 2010 and it's probably a miracle it turns on).  Gofundme is below.  Any little bit helps!

If you become a sponsor, feel free to send me your address in the "Drop Me a Line" because I would LOVE to send you a thank you card!

 

Additional information available upon request.