December: Closing the Year With Care & Community
As we come to the close of 2025, we want to pause and say a simple but heartfelt thank you.
Whether you joined a class, shared our work, donated supplies, volunteered your time, or quietly followed along — your presence has mattered more than you know.
✨ A Year in Reflection
Over the past year, Connecting Pieces continued to support individuals and families navigating gastrointestinal conditions, ostomies, disability, and chronic illness — locally and globally.
Together, we:
Delivered care kits and confidence resources to underserved communities
Held Healing Arts sessions that created space for expression, release, and emotional safety
Provided nourishment, education, and connection through Nourish & Flourish
Continued humanitarian outreach to patients in hard-to-reach regions
Each initiative carried the same intention: to meet people where they are, with dignity and care. In January, we’ll be sharing our 2025 Impact Report — a deeper look at the outcomes made possible by our community.
🎨 Healing Arts: Closing the Year Gently
December 6 — Healing Arts (Year-End Session)
Our final Healing Arts session of the year offered a grounding space to reflect, release, and step forward with intention.
This session served as a reminder that creativity can be both a pause and a bridge — honoring what was, while making room for what’s next.
More dates coming soon!
🍲 Nourish & Flourish — December 4 @ 7 PM EST
Join us for a sweet Nourish & Flourish session as Chef Victoria walks you through making soft, chewy almond amaretti cookies 🍪— perfect for sharing, gifting, or keeping all to yourself.
✨ What you’ll see in this video:
Easy swaps to fit different tastes and sensitivities
Tips for texture
Gut-friendly baking tips you can use in other recipes
Using simple ingredients and flexible swaps, she showed us how comforting flavors can nourish the body and spirit — especially during colder months.
🎥 Watch the session on our YouTube channel here
💜 Impact Story of the Month: Global Care Continues
Across borders and across systems, care continues.
In Egypt, Connecting Pieces distributed 1600 life-saving ostomy pouches to individuals facing limited access to consistent medical supplies. Alongside distribution, we also held an educational support session, creating space for learning, questions, and dignity-centered care.
This work is about more than supplies it’s about restoring continuity, confidence, and human dignity. We are deeply grateful to our partners, volunteers, and donors who make it possible to reach communities that are too often overlooked.
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
👗Looking Ahead to the New Year: Wellness Wears Confidence Fashion Show Charity Event
We’re also preparing for one of our most meaningful events of the year:
🗓 Saturday, June 14, 2026
Wellness Wears Confidence Fashion Show
This event will celebrate confidence, visibility, and bodies of all stories—highlighting resilience through fashion, wellness, and community.
🎟️ Save your seat: Link for more details
🌸 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...
🌟 January 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.
Drive4IBD Men’s Group—Wedneday, January 7 @ 8PM EST
Healing Arts —Sunday, January 18 @ 1 PM EST
Nourish & Flourish — Wednesday, January 21 @ 7 PM EST
💜 With Gratitude
Thank you for being part of the Connecting Pieces community.
Whether you donated, attended a session, shared our work, or simply followed along — you mattered this year.
We look forward to continuing this journey together.
💌 Stay Connected
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
