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Hope is Defiant Camo Hoodie.

One of our favorite reminders, on one of our new favorite styles. Shop the new Defiant Camo Hoodie available now in the online store. 🌟

https://store.twloha.com/products/defiant-camo-hoodie

“My brain gave me reasons to delay therapy, ranging from humiliation to indignation, the inability to come to terms with the fact that this is my new reality, and it won’t just disappear if I do these compulsions just right, just one more time.” https://twloha.com/blog/ocd-learning-to-swim/

Raise your first $50 to qualify for your Move For It 5k Pack!

Sign up as a Move For It 5k fundraiser, and you’ll receive your 5k pack when you raise your first $50! You can even donate to your own page!

Get started at moveforit5k.com.

Every dollar raised gets us closer to our goal of 20,000 hours of mental health care in 2026. Thank you for moving with us. 💙

Attend a Move For It 5k Meet-Up in your area! Join our official meet-up captains on May 2nd and connect with others in your area who are passionate about this work. Find all meet-up details at twloha.com/events.

Join a Move For It 5k Meet-Up in your city!

We have over 100 meet-ups happening and we’re so excited to see how these communities come together for something bigger and bring mental health conversations right to their own backyard.

Find the full list and all details at twloha.com/events.

“I used to think this type of suffering was fictitious. What I had seen in movies about OCD did not reflect the ego death I’ve become so familiar with, nor did the endless questioning and dire need for certainty seem so obtrusive.” https://twloha.com/blog/ocd-learning-to-swim/

Back of the Lotus Tie-Dye T-shirt.

Front of the Lotus Tie-Dye T-shirt.

You are not a burden. Please stay.

Lotus Tie-Dye is available in our online store at store.twloha.com/products/lotus-tie-dye-shirt and every purchase helps fund mental health resources. 💙

Shout out to those still learning what coping looks like after self-injury. It’s okay if it takes time.

The things that make you passionate, joyful, and loud do not make you messy or too much. They deserve celebration

“OCD is like an elementary school bully, picking on the things that make me sick to my stomach, reminding me that I am the monster I question myself to be; except I don’t get reprieve when the bell rings and the school day ends.” https://twloha.com/blog/ocd-learning-to-swim/

The Move For It 5k is here! Hope moves when we do.

Hope moves when we do.

Join participants around the world for our Virtual Move For It 5k on May 2nd! As we celebrate 20 years of hope and help, we’ll be coming together in honor of those we’ve lost, for the world we want to see, and the stories we’re still writing.

Learn more at moveforit5k.com.

We might not be able to completely silence anxiety or overthinking, but we can combine it with hopefulness. As much as you can imagine the scary things, you can imagine the good things, too.

There is no honor in struggling in silence, in furiously beating my arms and legs against the water when I needed to be taught to tread. My brain gave me reasons to delay therapy, ranging from humiliation to indignation. Of all of the regrets I have, not getting help sooner tops my list every time. OCD & Learning to Swim Diana Del Gaudio

In “OCD & Learning to Swim,” author Diana Del Gaudio writes about their experience with obsessive-compulsive disorder and how they tried valiantly to manage it without external care. But it was therapy that gave them the tools and support to address it. https://twloha.com/blog/ocd-learning-to-swim/

You can lean on me if you need to.

Share this with the person who may need to hear it. None of us deserve to go through the hardest parts of life alone. 💙

Shout out to those who have learned to share their experience of self-injury without fear. You are helping others know they aren’t alone.

Your healing will rarely be all good or all bad. It's up and down, and hardly ever linear. Hold grace for yourself through every part.

“The things past me needed aren’t complex in the grand scheme of things, but patterns I continue to see in others and myself today. A lot goes back to:

Am I loved?
Am I worthwhile?
Will they stay once they truly see me?”

https://twloha.com/blog/what-id-want-her-to-know/

In a world full of “I could never do that,”

remember to be someone who says, “I’ll never know if I don’t try.”

Who you are is always changing. Create a story you're proud of.

“Guilt and shame. Don’t push them away. Learn what each one’s story is and understand what they are trying to say. Ignoring them won’t make them go away.” https://twloha.com/blog/what-id-want-her-to-know/

In a world full of “You’ll never make it,”

remember to be someone who says, “My dreams are worth taking a chance on.”

Stay to see another sunrise.

“Saying 'no' isn’t mean. The quest for liberation includes you as well, and you have a right to establish a boundary. Not everyone will accept it, but ‘no’ is a full sentence.” https://twloha.com/blog/what-id-want-her-to-know/

Shout out to those who know that self-injury recovery is not linear. Keep taking it day by day.

We need each other, often more than we'd like to admit. Build, lean on, and find healing in community.

Back if the Camo Hoodie.

The new Better Camo Hoodie is going fast, and we’re so glad you love it. 🤩 Make today better by shopping TWLOHA. Every purchase funds mental health resources + support.

store.twloha.com/collections/new-arrivals/products/better-camo-hoodie

“What signals trust and distrust in your body? Those things aren’t random. Respect your gut while remembering that a familiar disaster will feel more comfortable than an unfamiliar peace for your nervous system.” https://twloha.com/blog/what-id-want-her-to-know/

Repeat these things out loud, even if you don’t believe them right now: I am enough. I deserve help. I am allowed to take up space.

It can take time for it to sink in, but the truth remains that you are worthy of care and support.

Peer Support Groups - twloha.com/peersupport
FIND HELP Tool - twloha.com/find-help
Mental Health Toolkit - mentalhealthtoolkit.co
Crisis Text Line - Text TWLOHA to 741741

“I didn’t believe it when I was younger, but life is so much more than where I started. There is pain, there is wonder, beauty, sorrow, confusion, excitement, peace, magic, starlight, and sunrise, and all the in betweens. It’s a worthwhile journey.” https://twloha.com/blog/what-id-want-her-to-know/

Shout out to those learning to live with scars from their past. Your story is not shameful.

Tomorrow will always hold the possibility of something better.