Chaos to Growth

02/26/2021

What a crazy year it’s been. In 2020 we created a message that helped lift up those who were affected by Covid-19. We made some shirts and some journals, and even donated 200 of them to nurses in South Dakota.

With all of our other projects going on, we haven’t been all that involved in keeping this project going - online at least.

Our chaos to growth illustration now lives as public art in Los Angeles, and we have a little installation coming up in Culver City next month!

So now we are wondering how to keep moving those positive vibes forward? We want to keep spreading our messages of encouragement because some days... it’s the one thing you need to keep going.

So we are building an Etsy shop. It’s small right now, but we’re working on getting more mental health boosting art products up there.

We hope you’ll stick around and watch us grow from the chaos - and we hope to do the same for you!

With lots of love,
Leslie
Owner/artist

08/03/2020

These 2.5” weatherproof stickers are our best selling item right now.

🤔🖐🏽Where would you stick one?

$1 from each sticker purchase helps send an uplifting care package to a nurse! 💚

08/02/2020

HUGE thank you to all the beautiful people who purchased our Chaos to Growth tees and tanks in the first round!

Our roots are in rock climbing, and we love our rock climbing community 😘

07/21/2020

Ben is an athlete, posture therapist, movement and nutrition coach, and stutterer. He grew up with a mother that was a drug addict and a mostly absent father that was abusive when around, while often being bullied and made fun of for his stuttering by his peers. He was also wrongfully put in special ed and was not allowed access to the same education as his peers. Despite the roadblocks, he found a true love for playing sports, and immersed himself into football, basketball, and baseball. Eventually, Ben would graduate from the American Institute for Stuttering and was finally able to have his first real conversation at the age of 20.

He went on to graduate with a degree in Speech and Language Pathology (SLP), hoping to learn more about his condition and help other people that stutter. Unable to find the answers in academia and disillusioned by the academic bureaucracy, he took an offer to play semi-pro football instead of graduate studies in SLP. After playing, he pursued a career in personal training with a special interest in performance and recovery. After a near-death motorcycle accident, doctors told him that he would never be able to run or function at a high physical level ever again, and was prescribed cocktails of pain killers and bandaids. Ben rejected this prognosis and became committed to finding another way, discovering a posture based corrective exercise protocol to help himself out of pain. Having successfully treated himself without surgery, he went on to study different modalities of movement, as well as taking a deeper dive into myofascial anatomy and physiology, neuroscience, evolutionary biology, trauma, and ancestral health. He continues to learn more each day, hoping to eventually be able to fully express himself with his speech. He now helps other people out of pain as a posture therapist, movement and nutrition coach at baronposturefitness.com.

07/20/2020

Update! We're getting ready to send out our first shipment to nurses in South Dakota! They were the first hospital to reach out to us asking for nurses' gifts with our uplifting art, and their request inspired us to start this project. We still have yet to cover the cost of 160 of these hand printed kraft paper journals. Please share our GoFundMe page or Buy 1 Donate 1 website if you can. We believe our nurses could definitely use a morale boost to get us through the next wave of the pandemic.

Happy Monday, we love you!

07/14/2020

It may not be right now, and it may not seem like it ever can be. But we MUST believe that it will be, for the sake of our species. If we want the best humanity, we have to believe in it first.

There’s a lot of work that must be done to get to a place that feels OK. But we’re doing it. Keep working and keep learning. Stay open. When you’ve learned something beneficial, teach someone else. That’s how we stay alive.

Art by
Available as a phone or tablet background on chaostogrowth.com. Check our bio for the link!

07/13/2020

If you are able, please consider donating to our care package fund for nurses.

A hospital reached out to us with a request for 100-200 journals to gift to their nurses. Their Nurses' Day celebration was cancelled, including their budget. We are raising money to send them the journals they asked for.

Send a hopeful and uplifting gift to frontline and healthcare workers!THE DONATIO… Leslie Kim needs your support for Hope for healthcare and frontline workers

07/08/2020

Size check for stickers coming soon to our shop 🙌🏽