Empowering At-Risk Women

One Day at a Time 

“COMPLETE” RECOVERY IS WHAT VIRTUE BY DESIGN INC. IS ALL ABOUT

Waking up in the recovery room, after having her first child, she cried out to the nurse to come. She was in pain, yet wanting to hold her newborn baby. Chloie had a difficult delivery and ended up having to have a c-section. The last thing she remembered was the traumatic labor and the chaos in her room as her blood pressure began to drop. The last thing she whispered was “Lord, please let my baby be okay”. Isn’t that just like a mama? She was literally dying and the last thought before she passed out, was her child. It’s such a natural way to feel for most moms. 

It’s a lot like a woman battling with crisis in her life; giving into the death of her old self so she can be new.  Most women who make the decision to battle their old self in order to be new, do it for another person, often times their own child and most of the time it takes hitting rock bottom before she realizes how important her loved one’s life is and that her own survival is crucial to the well-being of the loved one. 

The recovery room is not comfortable. The patient is often alone and when someone is there it’s always the doctors and nurses. She’s at a place where she must trust people she doesn’t really know. 

When a woman who has lived in pain most of her life, then begins a transition time(recovery), she must learn to trust the process and the people who are helping her through that process. She’s overcome by the pain of her past, yet still yearns for a new life.  

Virtue By Design is the place that offers an avenue to that new life; a place for women to fully recover from past trauma. After a program has been completed, Virtue By Design steps in and brings that woman to a place of security, self reliance and trusting God in all things. Our organization teaches home management skills, entrepreneurship skills and offers training in self care(spiritually, physically, emotionally and mentally).We offer further education programs through partnerships within our community. 

This life doesn’t happen over night; it’s a process, it takes “one day at a time”.