Healing Through Hope

05/16/2026

Healing Through Hope is deeply honored to partner with RE Sources for their upcoming Roots & Rivers benefit event. 🌿💧

For decades, RE Sources has worked to protect the water, forests, climate, and ecosystems that sustain all of us across Northwest Washington. Their work reminds us that caring for the land is also caring for community, future generations, and one another.

As Healing Through Hope continues to grow our own land and plant-based healing work, we are grateful to stand alongside organizations who understand the sacred relationship between people and place.

We believe healing happens in relationship:

✨ Relationship with the land
✨ Relationship with water
✨ Relationship with community
✨ Relationship with ourselves

Thank you to RE Sources for creating spaces where environmental stewardship, education, and collective action come together with heart.

We look forward to sharing this meaningful evening together at Roots & Rivers on May 20th at the Bellingham Cruise Terminal.

If you’d like to learn more about the event, join us, or support the work of RE Sources, visit:

https://www.re-sources.org/

RE Sources works towards a better future: a livable climate and a healthy Salish Sea and bordered by thriving communities. Join our efforts.

05/13/2026

Over the past few months, Healing Through Hope has been quietly growing roots throughout our community. 🌿

Our small but mighty volunteer team has had the honor of partnering with the Whatcom County Library System to facilitate Dreamcatcher Workshops at the Everson, North Fork, and Point Roberts libraries — creating space for creativity, culture, storytelling, and connection across generations.

We also had the privilege of working alongside Common Waters and the Water Wars: How to Avoid project, helping support youth engagement opportunities with students from Western Washington University Environmental Studies. These conversations around water, land, and community continue to inspire us deeply.

Most recently, we partnered with Indigenous Beginnings to host a Stinging Nettle Workshop, sharing teachings around plant knowledge, food as medicine, and reconnecting with the land.

We are also grateful to be learning alongside knowledge keepers, mentors, and community members as we continue developing deeper relationship with our plant relatives, cultural teachings, and regalia-making practices. This learning is being carried with care, humility, and gratitude.

At the same time, we continue leaning into the possibility of bringing Healing Through Hope’s future work and programming to Cedar Springs Lodge, envisioning a space where healing, culture, community, and land-based learning can grow together.

As we evolve, we look forward to deepening our work in land and plant-based wellness, cultural connection, storytelling, and community healing.

Thank you to everyone who has supported, encouraged, collaborated, and walked alongside us so far. 💚

04/30/2026

*all spaces have been filled*

We have confirmed the date and time to harvest some stinging nettles in Nooksack territory!

When: Friday, May 1st
Time: 12:00pm
Location: Rutsatz Community Building

This is a free event and open to families. We’re keeping the group small so everyone can have a hands-on experience.

Limited to 10 participants. Sign up via messenger to Indigenous Beginnings or text 425-418-2346 to save your spot.

Please come prepared with long sleeves, pants, and layers for the weather.

Hosted by Healing Through Hope + Indigenous Beginnings

03/31/2026

🎥✨ We’re honored to share a glimpse into the heart of Healing Through Hope.

This video captures what words sometimes can’t fully hold—
the power of story, connection, culture, and healing that lives within community.

From land-based teachings to storytelling, from laughter to reflection, this work is about creating spaces where people can come as they are… and be held in hope.

Every gathering, every circle, every shared moment is part of something bigger—
✨ mending hearts
✨ lifting spirits
✨ building connection

We are deeply grateful to everyone who walks alongside us, supports this work, and continues to believe in the power of healing through community.

If this resonates with you, we invite you to watch, share, and be part of this journey. 🤍

Angela Letoi, Executive Director of Healing Through Hope, believes many of us have grown disconnected — from the land around us and from the people beside us...

03/26/2026

We’re excited to share our Stinging Nettle Workshop.

Join us for a hands-on, place-based workshop where we’ll learn how to identify, harvest, and prepare Ts’éx’tse’x (stinging nettles). We’ll spend time outside at a nearby patch, then come together to make nettle butter, pesto, and tea.

This is Part 1 of a 2-part series. In the next workshop, we’ll focus on medicinal uses like oil infusions and salve making.

This is a free event and open to families. We’re keeping the group small so everyone can have a hands-on experience.

When: Friday, May 1st
Time: 12:00pm
Location: Rutsatz Community Building

Limited to 10 participants. Sign up via messenger to Indigenous Beginnings or text 425-418-2346 to save your spot.

Please come prepared with long sleeves, pants, and layers for the weather.

Hosted by Healing Through Hope + Indigenous Beginnings

03/11/2026

This week, Healing Through Hope is honored to share culture and storytelling in two special ways:

🌿 At Lowell Elementary and Happy Valley Elementary, we’re bringing stories of place, history, and community into classrooms as part of Washington State’s Since Time Immemorial curriculum—an initiative rooted in teaching tribal history, sovereignty, and culture in schools.

🌊 At the Whatcom Food Network meeting, we’ll share stories of the land and waters—acknowledging the Coast Salish Peoples and the generations who have cared for this place from time immemorial.

These moments of storytelling help us remember where we come from, strengthen intergenerational connections, and build a more caring, informed community. Thank you to the educators, students, neighbors, and partners who make this week possible.

If you’re in the area, stay tuned for more learning and sharing as we continue this journey together.

03/08/2026

Today we’re honoring International Women’s Day and celebrating the women who guide, teach, and inspire our work.

At Healing Through Hope, our stories and teachings flow through generations from grandmothers to mothers to daughters. We are grateful to walk this path together and to share storytelling, culture, and healing with our community.

With love and gratitude today and every day from Tammy Cooper-Woodrich, Angela Letoi, Melody Woodrich, and Elizabeth Coleman. 💜

Thank you to all the women who hold our communities together, lift others up, and keep our stories alive.

03/06/2026

✨ **Stories that Connect Us** ✨

Last night, **Healing Through Hope** had the honor of sharing stories with students at **Birchwood Elementary School**, and today we continued that journey with young listeners at **Alderwood Elementary School** in the Bellingham School District.

For generations, storytelling has been one of the ways our families and communities pass down wisdom, values, laughter, and healing. Through stories, children see themselves, learn about the world around them, and feel the power of connection.

We are grateful to the teachers and staff who welcomed us into their classrooms and to the students who listened with such open hearts and curious minds. Moments like these remind us how powerful stories can be in building understanding and belonging.

And the storytelling continues!
📚 **Next Wednesday we’ll be visiting Happy Valley Elementary School** to share more stories and time together with students.

Thank you to the **Bellingham School District** for creating space for storytelling in the classroom and helping keep these traditions alive.

02/23/2026

Healing Through Hope is looking for quotes and testimonials to share with our community partners and on our website. We would love to hear about your experience and the impacts that we have on our community. Please reach out if you are interested in sharing your voice and support our mission!