{"id":10684,"date":"2025-05-17T12:51:26","date_gmt":"2025-05-17T12:51:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nanamedia.org\/en\/2025\/05\/17\/the-mother-of-bay-area-turns-pain-into-art-on-the-day-of-mental-health-day-of-action\/"},"modified":"2025-05-17T12:51:27","modified_gmt":"2025-05-17T12:51:27","slug":"the-mother-of-bay-area-turns-pain-into-art-on-the-day-of-mental-health-day-of-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nanamedia.org\/en\/2025\/05\/17\/the-mother-of-bay-area-turns-pain-into-art-on-the-day-of-mental-health-day-of-action\/","title":{"rendered":"The mother of Bay Area turns pain into art on the day of mental health. Day of action"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Introduction to Theresa Fortune&#8217;s Journey<\/h2>\n<p>Oakland &#8211; we cannot always choose the name we wear, but sometimes when you are lucky you grow into it. Theresa Fortune finally became hers on a calm morning in May, when she worked over her latest masterpiece.<\/p>\n<h2>A Masterpiece of Life and Love<\/h2>\n<p>&quot;This piece is all about life, love, joy, opportunity and color,&quot; said Fortune. All of these things feel particularly true on this day because their first great work of art should be revealed.<\/p>\n<h2>Overcoming Darkness<\/h2>\n<p>Ten years ago, Fortune was bankrupt, pregnant and literally and figuratively in a pit hole from which she couldn&#8217;t climb. &quot;I had actually thought about taking my life at one point because I was only in this pit hole from which I couldn&#8217;t climb,&quot; she said. The darkness always leaned until one day she picked up a knife. &quot;I thought of opening my wrists and I realized that this would be really messy for my child to come home,&quot; she said.<\/p>\n<h2>Finding Strength in Creativity<\/h2>\n<p>What she didn&#8217;t know at the time was that after the birth of depression she was opposite, a disease that affects twice as many women with color and is still rarely spoken. So she grabbed a camera and told her history in a documentary with the title &quot;From the Ashes&quot; and then in a collage called &quot;Womban of the Earth&quot;, which shows a black mother in the middle of the birth.<\/p>\n<h2>Recognition and Inspiration<\/h2>\n<p>It was raw, honestly and noticed by Dante Green, a senior Vice President. &quot;It was very inspiring for me and it is a story that we should continue to tell,&quot; said Green, who brings us to unveil. The piece is now being hung in Oakland. A journey that started with a birth has now become a love work. &quot;To work with them, I only have more hope,&quot; she said.<\/p>\n<h2>Mental Health Support<\/h2>\n<p>If you or your relatives have problems with mental health, call the national suicide prevention by choosing 988.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Introduction to Theresa Fortune&#8217;s Journey Oakland &#8211; we cannot always choose the name we wear, but sometimes when you are lucky you grow into it. Theresa Fortune finally became hers on a calm morning in May, when she worked over her latest masterpiece. A Masterpiece of Life and Love &quot;This piece is all about life,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10685,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-10684","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nanamedia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nanamedia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nanamedia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nanamedia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nanamedia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10684"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nanamedia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10686,"href":"https:\/\/nanamedia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10684\/revisions\/10686"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nanamedia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nanamedia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nanamedia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nanamedia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}