The Authors
Thriving Through is a therapeutic practice that specializes in working with those who have experienced digital violence* and intimate partner violence.
Thriving Through provides therapy for individuals and groups along with advocacy work, consulting, workshops and webinars.
Thriving Through is dedicated to ending gender-based violence by supporting those who are directly impacted.
Thriving Through Life. Thriving Through Trauma. Thriving Through Happiness.
mensen. is a writer, public artist, designer, educator, facilitator and creative strategist.
Her public practice is rooted in illustration, muralism, poetry, hope and defiance. Through participatory storytelling and design, she collaborates with groups working on Movement and social justice campaigns, memory-keeping and collective healing and liberation.
mensen. has worked in the public arts, media, education, non-profit, advocacy and direct-service sectors. She has also worked with local and transnational grassroots initiatives by and for working-class and poor communities, immigrants, LGBTQIA+ people, women, youth and communities impacted by trauma, violence and the criminal punishment system.
mensen. believes everyone is inherently creative, art is about ideas, making is a form of alchemy that can transform relationships, and above all: hope is the antidote.