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.

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. 

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.

 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. 

Throughout Feb 2019 - present day I THRIVE has functioned as a 501c3 nonprofit organization offering various services, donated goods, therapeutic healing and personal development scholarships, and advocacy to survivors of sexual violence and trauma in Utah and beyond. This work has been as fulfilling as it has been challenging while I THRIVE worked to build our name in the nonprofit sector and to support survivors of trauma during unprecedented stressors during the COVID-19 pandemic. Our Kintsukuroi photo project was postponed and eventually retired in fall 2021 to focus on the more immediate demands and needs of survivors in the Utah, national, and global community who I THRIVE aimed to serve during the pandemic.

I THRIVE began more seriously investigating psychedelic assisted therapy and the psychedelic sciences in 2020. She 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.

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 has worked continuously with local licensing, investigative, and governmental bodies as well as various ethics organizations to ensure the safety of patients in Utah since summer 2022 and ongoing.

​Throughout summer 2023 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.