I am lucky to meet some incredible people whilst presenting Eat my Brunch and on Friday I met Toyin Balogun Okunuga who founded  ROAR THROUGH ART CIC and the author of HUSH TO ROAR 

Roar Through Art CIC is a unique community project to engage young people and women who have experienced some level of trauma, including adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), domestic abuse, sexual abuse, childhood sexual abuse (CSA), verbal abuse, emotional abuse, and financial abuse. We use combined art – expressive writing, poetry, dance, music, and drama – to a community of people whose mental fitness is transformed through expressing emotions effectively and artistically, creating and promoting an environment of healed hearts through art.

Here Toyin talks about the setting up for Roar Through Art CIC, the work they do, her book and her own experiences of childhood and how they heal hearts through arts.

INTERVIEW

HUSH TO ROAR 

She is the only black child in an all-white village in the UK, growing up surrounded by the unconditional love of her foster family. Suddenly her idyllic, carefree childhood is shattered when her birth parents decide to take her to Nigeria.

Hush to roar – Your Inner Child Has a Voice