
I THRIVE
Through the Years
Take a look below to review our progress, projects, and service from conception to creation.
Past
Where it started...
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I THRIVE was originally inspired in 2014 after creator Heather Curtis MD witnessed the difficulties that survivors of trauma often experience being believed and appropriately supported throughout the police reporting process.
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In 2016 SLCPD victim's advocate director Wendy Isom told I THRIVE's creator that it would be grassroots efforts that would change rape litigation in the United States. I THRIVE answered the call.
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I THRIVE's creator worked with various contributors, collaborators and inspirations over the course of her 4 year medical residency in psychiatry to develop the skills and platform necessary to launch this website project aimed at providing free resources for healing to survivors of sexual violence and trauma.
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In 2019, I THRIVE launched its 501c3 nonprofit platform as featured on ABC4 News Utah in April of that year to advertise our services and Kintsukuroi photo project.
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Throughout Feb 2019 - present day I THRIVE has functioned as a 501c3 nonprofit organization offering various services, donations, therapeutic healing and personal development scholarships, advocacy, healing resources, interventions, art, and activism projects, platforms, and efforts aimed to support survivors of sexual violence, mental illness, and trauma in Utah and beyond.
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I THRIVE began more seriously investigating psychedelic assisted therapy and the psychedelic sciences in 2020. I THRIVE's creator, Heather Curtis MD, sought to extend resources for survivors to include information regarding these prospective modes of healing as effective treatments for PTSD and associated trauma based syndromes and subtypes of mental illness.
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In January 2021 we launched our 'Looking Glass Project.' Designed to expose harms in the Utah mental health and psychedelic science community, this effort rapidly evolved into a local and national whistleblowing effort once we uncovered an extremis of harms not previously expected. In summer 2022 we brought our project and our story to national leaders in the psychedelic sciences at the California Institute of Integral Studies Certificate Program in Psychedelic Therapy and Research seeking assistance to expose these harms and add protections to the evolving psychedelic medicine movement to prevent recurrence of such harms.
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Beginning in 2022, I THRIVE more directly transitioned its area of focus to protecting survivors of sexual violence and trauma within the evolving psychedelic sciences. I THRIVE worked continuously with the Utah Division of Professional Licensing (DOPL) and local police to ensure the safety of patients in Utah 2022-2024, increasing our efforts in 2023 after the tragic harms that transpired.
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​Throughout 2022-2024 I THRIVE continued to work with our local regulatory bodies and DOPL to support the safety of survivors of trauma within the psychedelic sciences and the Utah mental heath community.

Present
Where it's been...
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​I THRIVE creator Heather Curtis MD continues to build this website as our primary advocacy platform, a free healing resource and outreach effort representing I THRIVE 501c3's ongoing service efforts.
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Heather completed key components of her Integrative Psychiatry Career Mentorship Program in 2024, gaining access to healing protocols to further serve survivors. These materials have been added to our 'Holistic & Integrative Healing' page.
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We continued our investigations and advocacy for survivors with the Utah Division of Professional Licensing.
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We took our story to the American Psychiatric Association Ethics Committee as well as the University of Utah Office of Exclusion and Outreach where we continue to await the results of these investigations and our advocacy for future survivors at the University of Utah and in our surrounding community.
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In 2024 we dedicated significant effort to building our website platform to include additional resources, links, offerings, and to add upon our art, advocacy, and activism portfolio.
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We published our 'Looking Glass Project' and 'Looking Glass Discussion' pages.
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We added our 'Pledge for Peace & Safety' to support our stand for Peace, Campus, Community, and Psychedelic Safety.
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We committed to 'Nonviolent Resistance' and 'Civil Disobedience,' standing for survivor rights, educating our community and our followers on the unjust weaponization of law and psychiatry in Utah, and our stand for human, civil, and survivor rights.
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We shined a light on ethical violations occurring in our community and committed to a path dedicated to 'Changing the Culture.'
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We built our social media platform @The_Kintsukuroi_Project. and loaded it with healing resources, interventions, and updates just in time to extend our support and outreach to start off our 2024 Yearly Art & Giving Series.
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For now, Heather is looking forward to the prospect of travel, training, and further recovery as she prepares to re-enter practice spring 2025.

Future
Where its going...
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I THRIVE will continue to provide free information, offerings, interventions, and healing through this platform, our social media, and community outreach efforts.
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I THRIVE's creator will continue to serve her community through her work as a psychiatrist and an advocate for survivors of sexual violence, mental illness, and trauma with plans to return to practice spring 2025.
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We are looking forward to adding fun art therapy interventions that survivors can do at home alongside us with simple supplies to stay connected and heal together to our rotation of social media interventions this year.
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We are preparing write-ups for consideration for publication regarding our experiences in Thailand, Utah, and our advocacy efforts for survivors of trauma around the globe, as well as write-ups for prospective ethical review, and human rights council review.
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We are additionally preparing reports for retaliation and discrimination in regard to the harassment, harm, and abuse that I THRIVE's creator has been subjected to by her perpetrator and University legal staff throughout the harms she endured through investigations present day investigations with the Utah Antidiscrimination and Labor Division in hopes of adding safe-guards to protect future survivors.
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I THRIVE looks forward to completing our 'Yearly Art & Giving Series' this season as we continue to evolve as an organization, art, and advocacy effort.
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Stay tuned for more great, healing work, projects, and interventions!

