MINT participants use art therapy to help navigate their trauma [Video]

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Vaillaun Gentry finds herself spending hours healing inside Shawnee’s Sacred Earth Community Garden.

It’s a safe place to help those get through trauma.

“If you don’t have the right way to cope with it, or the right way to deal with your stress or anger, it might lead to a bad area like a bad path,” said Gentry.

She helped plant some of the vegetables inside the garden. It’s a constant reminder to her of just how far she’s grown.

“I’ve become more communicative with other people because at first when I joined I was very to myself and I would always draw in my book,” Gentry said.

UofL Health – UofL Hospital and the J. David Richardson Trauma Center partnered with organizations in communities …