Giving Back via "TWLOHA"
As the founder of 12StepLifestyle.com, and someone with 15 years in recovery, I try to incorporate the principles of the 12 steps in my life on a daily basis - and that includes how I run this business.
Chief among those principles is the notion of 'giving back'.
I'm one of the fortunate ones, and I believe to my core that I owe.
I owe for the grace I've experienced, and for the freedom I have today.
To that end, a percentage of every sale is donated to a wonderful charitable organization, "To Write Love On Her Arms", or 'TWLOHA'.
TWLOHA exists to encourage, inform, inspire, and also to invest directly into treatment and recovery.
To Write Love on Her Arms is a FANTASTIC non-profit movement dedicated to presenting hope and finding help for people struggling with depression, addiction, self-injury, and suicide. TWLOHA exists to encourage, inform, inspire, and also to invest directly into treatment and recovery, supporting more than 100 recovery, support, and counseling organizations!
Every month, 12 Step Lifestyle donates 5% of our profit to TWLOHA - which means that each and every purchase sends a little more help to this wonderful organization!
TWLOHA has donated over $2 MILLION to treatment & recovery!
TWLOHA HAS DONATED MORE THAN $2 MILLION TO TREATMENT AND RECOVERY AND GRANTED FUNDING TO 105 UNIQUE ORGANIZATIONS AND COUNSELING PRACTICES.
From TWLOHA:
Our founder, Jamie Tworkowski, didn’t set out to start a nonprofit organization. All he wanted to do was help a friend and tell her story. When Jamie met Renee Yohe, she was struggling with addiction, depression, self-injury, and suicidal thoughts. He wrote about the five days he spent with her before she entered a treatment center, and he sold T-shirts to help cover the cost. When she entered treatment, he posted the story on MySpace to give it a home. The name of the story was “To Write Love on Her Arms.”
You can read the original story here: