* Best--Selling Author * Expressive Arts Therapist * Creative Arts Teacher * Creative Coach *Owner of HeartShine Productions
WELCOME TO OUR COMMUNITY
Welcome to the "Brave Families Caring Community." We are a beacon for conscious trailblazers, a life-changing resource, and a catalyst for worldwide heart-led healing and transformation. We are brave families, and we invite you to join us.
Jean Voice Dart, Grief, Trauma, and Pain Psychotherapist
We honor brave families, not perfect families. The foundation of our Brave Families Caring Community is the book, Brave Families: The Ultimate Guide to Long-Lasting Loving Relationships. This book contains real-life stories, a resource directory, tools, and support for all families.
WHO ATTENDS THE CARING COMMUNITY?
The guest speakers at our Brave Family Caring Community meetings are: foster parents, therapists, teachers, relationship guides, counselors, coaches, storytellers, spiritual advisors, healers, caregivers, wellness practitioners, ministers, crackerjack innovators, etc. These are experts who care about improving family relationships, believe in love, and are ready to fight for it—people who stop the "blame game" and embrace powerful tools to create happy, healthy lives. We invite you to join us!
IS IT A GOOD FIT FOR ME?
You come from generations of brave families, courageously navigating life's challenges on a quest for long-lasting loving relationships with yourself, with others, and with God or that ultimate Source of divine love. This is your invitation to explore this further with monthly wellness sessions, featuring our expert speakers who share their real-life experiences, heartfelt transformational stories, resources, tips, tools, and practices across identities and generations to open hearts and demonstrate love in action.
IS IT SAFE?
We create a safe space to discuss the top ten global concerns facing families today. There will be time for listening and sharing, on-camera and off-camera. We respect your privacy. Each of these ten categories includes multiple major family topics.
LET'S DEFINE FAMILIES
Together, we’ll celebrate and expand the meaning of family relationships in all its courageous forms—parents, grandparents, divorcees, birth families, chosen families, blended families, extended families, LGBTQIA+ families, caregivers, single-parents, foster families, childless families, suicide loss survivors, those with disabilities, elder care providers, and much more. Each of us has a brave family and brave story. What is your brave story?
WHAT TOPICS DO WE EXAMINE IN THE BRAVE FAMILIES CARING COMMUNITY?
In our Brave Families Caring Community, we examine the top 10 challenges facing families today. These challenges include: 1. Ageism and Generational Challenges, 2. Child Abuse, Neglect, and Abandonment, 3. Community and Identity Disconnections, 4. Cultural and Racial Differences, 5. Daily Self-Care and Wellness Discipline, 6. Disabilities, Chronic Illness, and Complex Needs, 7. Domestic and Intimate Partner Violence, 8. Mental Health, Addiction, and Suicidal Ideation, 9. Relationship Breakdowns, Separation, Divorce, and Loss, 10. Religious or Spiritual Conflicts.
WHAT DOES A LAUNCH TEAM DO?
Our caring community is based on the book, Brave Families. Many family members are struggling and searching for helpful resources, and the book launch team helps us provide family resources to those who want them. We are currently making our book sparkle and shine for our launch on July 7, 2026. You can join our Brave Families Caring Community whether or not you participate in the book launch, but we'd love to have you join in this global effort if it speaks to your heart. Thank you.
THE BRAVE FAMILIES PROJECT
This Brave Families project is more than a book. It is ongoing monthly community support with expert guest speakers, a resource directory for families, valuable content from wellness expert interviews addressing the top ten family challenges, a LIVE Brave Families Summit featuring panel discussions and guest speakers. Everyone is welcome to attend our monthly Brave Families Caring Community gatherings/
ABOUT JEAN VOICE DART
Jean Voice Dart, MS, Psychotherapist, is a podcaster, editor, publisher, grandmother, disabled adult, and multiple best-selling author, with more than 50 years of experience working with with grief, trauma, and chronic pain. She hosts the Brave Families Caring Community. Jean specializes in using the expressive arts (writing, music, art, movement, and dramatic play). Meeting with and learning from brave families, building a supportive community, and giving and receiving love are key to her joy-filled life.
"The world keeps changing, and new challenges arise, but the heartbeat of brave families always remains the same. Love is the golden thread that ties generations together throughout eternity.”
—Jean Voice Dart
WHAT DOES JEAN KNOW ABOUT HOSTING A CARING FAMILY COMMUNITY?
As a multiple suicide-loss family member, Jean hosts the "Take My Hand Support Series," a suicide prevention platform through The Wellness Universe, and hosts the "Courageous, Creative Conquerors" podcast. She has also hosted a local television program, "Making Miracles Happen. Jean published, illustrated, or authored 18 collaborative or solo wellness book projects for adults, children, and families. As a credentialed teacher, therapist, and coach, Jean cares deeply about family wellness and has recently shifted and uplifted her life by healing from multiple traumas. She is grateful for thirty years of a joyful marriage.
TRANSFORMATIONAL AND WORLD-CHANGING
The Brave Families book and community offers a personal journey of emotional, physical, mental, and spiritual transformation. The Brave Families Resource Directory is featured at the back of the book. It provides:
1. Worldwide Brave Families authors and wellness service providers
2. Leading national and international supportive service organizations, sorted into the top ten family challenges. Both lists provide you with wisdom, experience, and compassionate care.
WHAT ARE PEOPLE SAYING ABOUT BRAVE FAMILIES?
"Brave Families opened me up, made me think, and made me consider other ways to feel and respond."
- Dr. Pamela J. Pine, MPH, Founder and Director, Stop the Silence®—A Department of the Institute on Violence, Abuse and Trauma (IVAT)
"This book serves as a source of comfort and an empowering guide for those seeking support, resilience, and meaningful pathways toward healing and understanding."
- Dr. Carla Stumpf Patton, EdD, MA, LMHC, QS, FT, Subject Matter Expert in Bereavement, Trauma, Suicide, and the Service Member, Veteran, and Military Family Communities
"Brave Families beautifully captures the resilience of the human spirit and the ways our families, relationships, and life experiences shape who we become."
~Rachel Vasquez, Founder and CEO of Living Beyond Grief™, Widow Empowerment Coach, and Family Grief and Trauma Specialist
Jean and the Brave Families coauthors are creating our caring community. We are excited to share our book, resource directory, summit, podcasts, and innovative plans to support others in worldwide efforts for brave families. We welcome your ideas and feedback and are grateful for your loving enthusiasm, consideration, and dedication to the health, healing, and happiness of our brave families. Please click below to join us. You and your family are not alone, and your wellness matters. Thank you.