Warming Hearts, Strengthening Community: November 2025 Community Impact

✨ November Highlights

November was a month filled with generosity, creativity, and meaningful community care. As we stepped into the colder season, our programs continued to offer warmth, nourishment, and connection to patients, caregivers, and families around the world.

• Essential convex ostomy supplies shipped to a patient in Argentina, made possible by your donations.

• Healing Arts brought comfort and reflection through two powerful sessions with Lisa and Denalerie.

• Nourish & Flourish welcomed Chef Yesenia for a cozy and gut-friendly Hot Cocoa for the Soul workshop.

🍲 Nourish & Flourish — November 15 @ 10 AM EST

Hot Cocoa For the Soul with Chef Yesenia who guided our community through three warm, soothing, gut-friendly drinks

• Coconut Cacao Calm Hot Chocolate

• Oat Bliss Hot Chocolate

• Almond Honey Comfort Cocoa

Using simple ingredients and flexible swaps, she showed us how comforting flavors can nourish the body and spirit — especially during colder months.

A cozy morning, filled with sweetness and self-care.

Download the recipes here

🎨 Healing Through Art with Healing Arts

Healing Arts is our creative wellness space where patients and caregivers explore what supports and strengthens them. Through guided projects that blend intention, reflection, and imagination, participants practice grounding techniques, honor their emotions, and reconnect with what brings them comfort and gratitude.

🧪 November 8 — Potion of Support with Lisa
Participants created their own symbolic “Potion of Support,” blending colors, affirmations, and intentions to reflect what they need more of in their lives.

🌳 November 20 — Gratitude Trees with Denalerie
Participants designed Gratitude Trees, using branches to honor moments, people, strengths, and memories that nourish their lives.

Healing Arts

Potion of Support

Healing Arts

Gratitude Tree

Drive4IBD: Forged Pieces

📅 Launching January 7, 2026
⏰ 8:00 PM EST
📍 Virtual Gathering

This group will provide a safe and expressive space for men living with GI conditions and ostomies to share, connect, and build confidence through storytelling, music, and community.

Link to join us: 🔗https://forms.gle/bq9Jt7rgrspccrcH7

💜 Impact Story of the Month: A Shipment Filled with Hope

This month, your donations helped us send urgently needed convex ostomy supplies to a patient in Argentina who had been struggling without consistent access.

Limited availability of specialized bags and trained ostomy support in her region had made daily life difficult. Without access to the products she needed the patients mental health had declined significantly due to the barriers she continuously encountered.

Thanks to you, she now has the essentials to feel safer, more comfortable, and more confident each day.

🇪🇬 Behind the Scenes: Supply Collection Update

Our international supply efforts continue as we prepare for upcoming distributions in Egypt.
We’ll share more details soon — but for now, we want to say:

Thank you to every person who has donated, shared our details, or simply spread the word. Your support keeps these life-saving shipments moving.

🌸 How You Can Support

Your involvement helps us nourish, uplift, and advocate for families worldwide.

• Donate

• Share our story

• Send any extra supplies you may have

• Volunteer your time or talent

Every action creates impact.

📅 Coming Up Next Month...

🌟 December brings reflection, creativity, and connection:

Join us as we close the year with grounding practices, shared creativity, and moments that remind us we’re never healing alone.

• Nourish & Flourish — Thursday, Dec 4 @ 7 PM EST

• Healing Arts —Saturday, Dec 6 @ 1 PM EST

• Cozy Cocoa Raffle Basket—Thursday, Dec 25

💌 Stay Connected

Thank you for helping us plant seeds of hope and confidence this October. Your presence continues to make our garden grow — one piece, one story, one act of kindness at a time.

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💜 The CP Team