MESSAGE OF LOVE
FROM THE FOUNDER
YOU ARE GREAT. YOU ARE LOVED. YOU WILL SURVIVE.
I am a survivor. I am a survivor of sexual, physical, mental, and violent abuse. I am a survivor. I am a survivor of health issues that have darkened my spirit that often took my will to live. These traumas left me with severe depression, depression that led to extreme bouts of post-traumatic stress disorder. But I am a survivor. Through my struggles, I found the gift of crochet. It became a creative way to build my body, heal my mind, energize my spirit and save my soul.
Tainted Lotus speaks the flower’s ability to bear its incredible fruit despite often difficult and crippling environments. We are a safe, judgment-free space that uses the creative nature of crochet to heal, build and nurture. It is with love that I welcome you to the page. I can’t wait to meet you.
Desiree Atkinson, Founder and Co-C.E.O.
Tainted Lotus, LLC
The Benefits Of Crochet
Crochet can benefit your health and wellbeing by:
• Lowering your blood pressure
• Rebuild self-esteem
• Grow self-confidence
• Soothe anxieties
• Relieve symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder
• Is a form of meditation, allows you to focus the mind on crocheting
and creating rather than depression.
• It offers you the ability to live in the moment
• It gives you something you can touch and feel,
• A sense of accomplishment
• It teaches you to visualize a project in your mind and then work on that
project through to the end
• It unleashes your creative power and gives you the wings to create
something out of nothing.
• Crochet opens the door to hope again, gives you a way to express yourself
Sharing your crochet with others, in turn, gives the best gift of all. love, peace, and happiness. This is what crochet did for me. Therefore, I crochet for my health. I Crochet for my life.
This is what I want to share through Tainted Lotus