What's Going on Underneath - Women's Mental Health Awareness Project

Women’s Mental Health Awareness (WMHA) Project - Te Aroha Collective introduces:

What’s Going On Underneath

We walk past each other in the street, in the grocery store or in the park but we never know what is happening or happened in that person’s world, we don’t know what is going on underneath that exterior.

Te Aroha Collective would like to raise awareness around Women’s Mental Health, leading up to Mental Health Awareness (MHA) week, September 23–29 September 2019.

We have met women with physical scars, listened to their journeys of medical and emotional struggles and turned that physical scar into a piece of art.

We have had 14 brave women step forward to be painted, rape victims, cancer survivors, women that have lost babies and sufferers of chronic depression. All these women are from within our Waikato district and just keep keeping on every day.

We are putting together a 2020 calendar with images of the WMHA project. All profits go to mental health awareness and we hope will ultimately raise awareness of women's mental health that is going on in our area, lives and journey.

A huge thank you to Dallas and Caitlin Spear for all their hard work! You are rockstars X

Please support this project as it affects so many of the women within our community.

During MHA in September, we will also have an exhibition of the images in our collective space at 136 Whitaker Street, Te Aroha.

THE IMPORTANT BITS:

- Calendars are $20,

- If you would like it posted please include an extra $2.50

- Email tearohacollective@gmail.com or message us https://www.facebook.com/tearohacollective/ your address details if you want it posted.

- Otherwise, all calendars can be picked up from Te Aroha Collective on the realise date - mid to late September 2019

- YOU MUST MAKE SURE YOUR NAME IS EITHER ON THE DONATION OR EMAILED/MESSAGED TO US WHICH WILL ENABLE YOU TO PICK YOUR CALENDAR UP IN-STORE.

Te Aroha Collective can be found on facebook at https://www.facebook.com/tearohacollective/

Note: all body paint sessions will be undertaken in a private, closed space and all images are owned by Caitlin Spear Photography.