Program Launch: Letters for Her

EnlightenHer
May 5
2 min read

I didn’t plan to create this project...in fact, I was ready to close up shop and move on from EnlightenHer all together. Letters to Her was a quiet nudge—born from watching the people I love walk through impossible things, and realizing how often we’re left to figure it all out in silence.

It began with my daughter. She's bright and creative and full of spark—but even with all the love and support in the world, she has days where her self-esteem wavers, where she doesn’t quite see what we all see in her. And she’s not alone. I’ve talked with other moms, teachers, counselors, and friends—there’s a common link of quiet struggle in pretty much all girls and women. Whether it’s grief, anxiety, heartbreak, body image, addiction, or just life being a lot, we’ve all carried something heavy.

And still… we keep going.

But what if the next girl or woman didn’t have to do it alone?

What if, instead of carrying these lessons quietly, we passed them on—wrapped in honesty, hope, and the kind of wisdom that only comes from having lived it?

That’s how Letters to Her was born.

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In it's prime I expect it to be a digital library of anonymous letters, written by women of all ages and backgrounds, to someone who is where they once were. Someone just starting the divorce they’ve made it through. Someone new to widowhood, recovery, motherhood, or heartbreak.

Someone just trying to believe they’re enough.

The letters don’t need to be perfect. They don’t need to fix anything.

They just need to be! They can offer comfort, perspective, or even just a quiet “me too.”

And that’s the dream: A space where women share their voices—not because they have all the answers, but because they remember what it was like to need one.

This isn’t a brand-new idea. Anonymous letters and “a letter to my past self” are tools used in therapy, shared in movies, and tucked into journals.

This is simply a repository—a place to hold the letters that already exist in your mind.

Right now, the shelves of this dream library are empty. That’s the vulnerable part.

But I believe in starting from scratch. I believe in building things slowly, with love, and in the power of one woman’s story to shift another woman’s day.

So if you have something on your heart—something you’ve lived through, learned from, or even just survived—I invite you to write.