Flowers from Wildfires is a personal passion project created by me, West Finch’s founder. At its heart, the project is a self-published book titled Flowers from Wildfires: Twenty-Two True Stories of Abusive Relationships. Each page of this book was designed with care and respect to the people who chose to share their stories with me—words laid out on the page in a poetic way, emotional illustrations, and an introduction, ending, and section dividers written by me.

I hope to further continue the spirit of the project by fostering a community where people can support each other in trauma recovery, especially through art and creativity. I believe that our storytelling can be incredibly cathartic and healing to ourselves and others; I believe we can inspire, and that by sharing our art, our secrets, our words, the truth of our mental health... maybe it can change the world.