THE QUIET POWER OF KNITTING FOR HEALING

As I work on the remembrance project, this process has become its own kind of healing. Each time I sit down to knit, I am brought back to childhood, when I first learned at seven or eight years old. In many ways, knitting was something that helped keep me whole during a very painful chapter of my life, when I was experiencing sexual abuse by my grandfather.

Creating each stitch for someone who has been sexually assaulted reminds me of all of us who have lived through these experiences. There is something healing in that acknowledgment. Another volunteer knitter shared that she is feeling a similar sense of connection as she works. It is as if we can feel one another out there, linked through our hands and the work we create.