Dawn McCoy Instagram – This is what a Loving Way Stay looks like.🩵🩷🎉
Favorite new toys waiting on the kids’ beds…
A fully stocked fridge with the family’s favorite snacks & treats…
And curated special surprises scattered throughout the home/hotel to make them feel EXTRA welcomed.
When we started @LovingWayFoundation, we knew that our Loving Way stays – soothing, healing respite getaways for victims of child abuse and families – would be a BIG part of it.
But we didn’t know just HOW big they would be.🫶
Hosting our first stay at @PrettyInPinkPS in Palm Springs with the phenomenal Anderson family – and their tiny survivor, Levi (pictured here in the helmet) – showed us the power of what these trips can do.
Their joy and excitement and relaxation and FUN (🎉!!) surpassed any and all expectations we had!
Mostly because they’re just an inspiring survivor-warrior family…but also because their joy felt like ours.☺️
Then was the moment we welcomed them into the home – and it’s a shared feeling of utter joy I will always cherish.🥰
Waylon & I know it firsthand – that a vacation where victims are welcomed, taken care of and pampered – doesn’t only create core memories…but renews spirits that can feel broken, defeated, downtrodden, weak and weathered.
My work in the travel and television space has allowed us the warmth and comfort of hosted trips just like that.
So we wanted to pay it forward and give our fellow victims’ families that same level of comfort and warmth that we’ve experienced over these past few years.
We now have a short waitlist for our Loving Way Stays and my heart couldn’t be more full that our foundation is finding those in need of them…but we need more support to get these families healing.
Thank you @prettyinpinkps & @wanderluxe_vacationrentals for hosting our first Palm Springs #LovingWayStay.
It’s one we will never, NEVER forget.
Please donate what you can at www.LovingWayFoundation.org/Donate to help keep our Loving Way Stays and child abuse prevention going strong.
And if you have a vacation home, hotel, resort, vacation destination that you’d like to talk us about for possible collaboration, or airline miles you’d like to donate, please reach out to me directly. | Posted on 27/Aug/2024 21:39:56
