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There’s so much to say about To Write Love On Her Arms, and I don’t really have the words to say it in. I’m going to use other peoples’ words, instead.

From the TWLOHA website: “To Write Love On Her Arms is a non-profit movement dedicated to presenting hope and finding help for those struggling with depression, addiction, self-injury and suicide. TWLOHA exists to encourage, inform, inspire, and also to invest directly into treatment and recovery.”

“Let’s continue to fight to figure out what this word “love” means. Let’s aim for how it looks and how it sounds – maybe something like humility and confidence and kindness, maybe honesty and compassion…”

Today an event was organised in Launceston by a couple of guys I went to school with, and worldwide via Facebook to promote the message of TWLOHA. There are thousands of photos and messages of support and hope floating around the internet today, and if you need a pick-me-up, there’s bound to be something that tugs at a heartstring. It’s amazing that over 350,000 people worldwide have been involved in TWLOHA over the last couple of days (that’s only a fraction of the number, not counting people who have seen the words and asked the reason for them) and all without any official or large organisation to get everything happening. Surely that in itself is a little miracle, to inspire a little hope wherever it is needed.

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