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LITTLE ROCK (KATV) — A new initiative aimed at promoting mental health awareness is launching in Little Rock.
The nonprofit Doc Project is introducing "Family Matters," a series of conversations focused on healing and peace. The event features Tara Wallace, an actress, speaker, and reality TV personality known for her role on VH1's "Love and Hip Hop."
Wallace, who has become a prominent advocate for women's wellness and emotional healing, shares her personal journey of growth, forgiveness, and resilience.
"I think that so many times we have always kind of swept things under the rug, and we don't talk about it enough to minimize things," Wallace said. "We have to know that there's a problem, to understand the need for the problem."
Wallace says the city's southern hospitality reminded her of her Mississippi roots. "I'm just really happy to be here, and you know, especially for the cause in which I'm here," she said.
The initiative aims to address the importance of forgiveness in the healing process. "Forgiveness is so important. It's important because to move on, for wholeness and clarity, for healing, forgiveness is a necessity," Wallace said. "We deserve to live with the healed versions of ourselves the same way we live with the broken versions of ourselves."
Wallace hopes participants will leave with a sense of being heard and the understanding that healing is essential.
"I hope that people take away that there are going to be new changes here in Arkansas," she said. "Sometimes we think that we're the only one going through something. So we're just kind of living and torturing ourselves in silence and to be able to start those conversations around, you know, family matters, right? And in order to have a healed family, we must first heal ourselves."
