LiveMindfuLee

Welcome to our new and improved online home for LiveMindfuLee resources. I am so excited to announce that I am expanding this program thanks to a successful 2024 full of new connections, fundraisers, and community support. Let’s start with a few updates about LiveMindfuLee operations. Then I would like to share with you a bit of my story about how I got here, and why I am doing all of this.

1. Donation Drop-Offs. Starting May 1, 2025 all bulk donations must be scheduled and confirmed for drop off via email . Bulk drop offs are now located in Clark. Small donations can be scheduled in Summit, or Westfield. Please be mindful that I do not drive and can not lift heavy items.
2. Acceptable Donations. If you are wondering what items we are collecting throughout 2025 here is an updated list:
   • Clean unused women’s underwear in packaging
   • Clean unused women’s socks
   • Tampons, Pads, period supplies
   • Unopened Toiletries (including hotel miniatures)
   • Make – up and make up brushes (unused or swatched only)
   • Art Supplies
   • Craft Supplies
   • Unwanted/ Broken Jewelry
   • Bookbags, Purses, Small tote bags
   • Bibles, Christian and Jewish Books
   • Adult Coloring books
   • Journals/Sketchbooks
   • Annotation Supplies
   • Wound care supplies for DV victims
   • Gift Cards and Vouchers
3. Free Services. Which services do we offer at no cost?
   • Monthly Period package (limited to available resources)
   • Up to 6 complimentary sessions for homeless sexual assault survivors.
   • Seasonal Zoom session open to public
   • Women’s Bible Study Resources
   • Online (self-serve) Resources
   • Donation items for clients facing financial hardship
   • Community Events – check our calendar (donation encouraged)
4. Paid Services. Which services do we charge for to help fund our community outreach program?
   • Art Classes – $70 per 1 hour
   • Faith Based Life Coaching – $75 per hour
   • Craft Classes – cost variable per workshop (check our calendar to see upcoming collaborations)
   • Custom Healing Portraits – Reach out today for a quote inspire@livemindfulee.com
5. Cash Donations – currently accepting through check, cash, gofundme, square, cash app, venmo, & zelle – changes to how donations are accepted may come as we expand and move towards non profit status. I will update the community as soon as any changes are made.
6. Renovations. Not only did we renovate our website but our physical location got a much needed and super cozy new look. Check it out, a few more changes to come but we are confident the new look fits the fun vibes of our sessions.

Thank you so much for your love and support. As a survivor of sexual assault, I wasn’t able to advocate for myself or get the help I needed when I needed it. I was hiding, running, surviving, and at times dying. I had to learn the hard way to survive while many of the other women around me didn’t make it. The thought of losing more women to suicide, addiction, and health complications due to chronic homelessness and the associated chronic rape brought me pain and devastation. I knew I had to do something. God trusted me to save me, and give me purpose. I believe LiveMindfuLee is my purpose and an outlet to work with God to make a difference in the world for myself, my sisters, and my daughters.

I started my journey of stability and healing in 2019. I was paralyzed, had a hole in the center of my heart, and was dealing with cancer, excessive weight gain and situational depression. I was blessed to meet a woman who completely changed my life. She loved me into loving myself, gave me a bed to sleep in, food and even helped me long enough to save money and establish myself in the community and get a job and eventually an apartment. If it wasn’t for the grace, direction and hope she gave me, I may still be running from the men who hurt me instead of living. I might not have been able to survive what came next.

In 2020 I was running a little operation out of my basement, lovingly titled “aurora light and love” The communities of Summit, Chatham, Milburn, Westfield, and surrounding areas were bringing me supplies that I would package and arrange to be dropped off to homeless men and women throughout union county. This grew so much that other charities like GRACE and Bridges were helping and I was feeling the beginnings of the rumbling of finding my purpose.

Like many other survivors, I ended up a victim of another assault, though I couldn’t believe after all of that it could happen again. My previous landlords son stalked me, broke into my home, and assaulted me in my bed. This devastated me again, and brought fourth everything I needed to deal with that I had buried. I ran away, and that didn’t make it better, so I came back and faced it. I went to school for addiction and trauma coaching. Then I went for every form of energy medicine, reiki, shamanic trainings you can think of. I am a grand master in many things now, which my kids get a kick out of. My daughter lovingly calls me “Dr. Feelings” and I wear that with honor. Something still seemed to be missing in my healing.

I learned through years of consistent mental health and spiritual health trainings that what was missing in this was Faith, God, Jesus Christ. I set fourth on a mission to become a minister, evolve as a human being, and learn about women’s ministry and church planting. Right now I am in school working on a dual Theology and Psychology degree, with a minor in non-profit (business). It is a lot of work to own 2 businesses, be in school full time, keeping up to date with certifications, connecting with the community, and helping my homeless clients. My mom says I thrive under pressure, and she isn’t wrong.

The community has been donating supplies, helping me out with fundraisers, getting me connected with people who can give guidance, and all around having my back and all of my girls back in this process. I am so grateful. When I say you aren’t just helping my clients you are healing me I mean that. This business started as what I thought would be a reiki practice, but it never became that and I am actually so grateful for the pivot and opportunity to make a difference in the lives of women.

In 2023 I was able to open my brick and mortar location in the second oldest building in the heart of downtown Westfield. 37 elm st. Right next to the iconic rainbow cross walk and pastel row homes. You could say it felt supernatural finding placement in a city I felt seen, and comfortable in. I started offering life skills, coping skills, reiki, prayer sessions and communication coaching. I was so excited but I didn’t have a lot of direction or experience yet.

In 2024, I self funded this program as a non profit, draining all of my personal resources and hoping on the TikTok trends for support. That sounds scary I know, but it was amazing, 72 hours a week sometimes 15 hour days running advocacy and getting placement for homeless domestic violence victims even when funding was cut by the Biden administration by 40%. Sometimes I didn’t sleep at all feeling the weight of the responsibility of finding placement for women in union county who had no home, no phone, no resources, no families. I learned so much about navigating welfare, insurance, shelter policies, grant writing, the needs of those struggling with mental and physical problems that disqualify them from care. However, my dr. put me on bedrest by September citing stress as the reason for returning conditions. I think this was a necessary step to force me to slow down, reevaluate the program, restructure, reeducate and accept support from businesses who were better prepared to help with funding than I had been.

In 2025 I have been collaborating with businesses like Body Space Fitness in Union Square NYC who hosts a monthly fundraiser with their beloved coach Tony they pledge their income from that monthly class to helping the women in our program. ArtLoveWhimsy my art studio is donating proceeds from paintings and jewelry to help with the cost of operations and resources. I am also committing to pop-ups, collabs with local art studios, coffee shops, gyms and more to keep this vision alive and growing and the resources available to those in need. I locked in a storage unit so we can host drives and do more for those who come to us looking for help. This year I am adding self serve online resources to help manage my time and energy, expand our reach and help women on demand.

Thank you for reading this far, checking out our updates and hearing some of my story and what brought LiveMindfuLee to life, say a prayer for me, and for my girls because where women gather to pray their voices are heard.

XOXO Brittney L. Miller