My Friend Kate Van Doren is an artist and art therapist. The Healing Words Project Began in the Spring of 2020 and has empowered over 100 women to share their voice through the project. Katie invites volunteer participants to choose an empowering phrase to write on their bodies and then she photographs them. 

 

Messages of basic human rights, bodily autonomy, and survivor uprising are portrayed through this incredible body of work. 

 

Listen to hear more about the project how it got started how it's changed and evolved, how Kate creates safety within her space working with people who often feel vulnerable and my own experience of participating in the project. 

 

Happy Listening. 

you can see The Healing Words Project on it's website https://www.healingwordsproject.com/ 

and also on instagram @healingwordsproject

 

You can also find Kates Fine Arts Work at her websit https://www.katevandoren.com/

 

and on instagram @catvandoren