Face Your Fears 2026
Face Your Fears 2026
Face Your Fears 2026

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A little reminder can go a long way. 🤍 Take what you need from today’s Lovey Hug, and carry it with you into the rest of your week. Save this for later or share it with someone who could use a little encouragement today. #emotionalwellness #parentingsupport #childdevelopment
Here’s to imagination, plenty of treats, and the stuffed friends who come along for all of it. 🎃 Happy Halloween from The Lovey Project. 👻 #HappyHalloween #ChildhoodWellness #ScreenFreeKids
Something peculiar is getting very close. 🕯️ Today, we Face Our Fears. After months of building, plotting, painting, and bringing every strange little detail to life, the doors are almost ready to open for The Lovey Project’s biggest Halloween party of the year. If you’ve been watching from the shadows and telling yourself you’ll get your tickets later, you have officially arrived at later. Come see what all the curiosity has been about. 🎃 Face Your Fears 2 Halloween Gala 📅 Tonight, October 30 📍 KLM Lodge, Hinsdale 🎟️ Get your tickets now through the link in our bio. The party will be underway soon. Make sure you’re inside. #ChicagoWesternSuburbs #ChicagoHalloween #HalloweenParty #HalloweenEvents #HalloweenFundraiser
With just one more day until Face Your Fears, there is still time to take your chances on a collection of frightfully fabulous prizes, from pre-party indulgences and designer treasures to the Golden Ticket Grand Prize: a haunted Savannah getaway for two valued at $5,000. While a little good fortune may send something wonderfully peculiar home with you, every entry supports The Lovey Project’s work creating opportunities for children to build confidence, resilience, creativity, and connection. October 30 is almost here. The curiosities are waiting. The only thing missing is you. 🎟️ Purchase your raffle entries and Face Your Fears event tickets through the link in our bio. #HalloweenFundraiser #HalloweenRaffle #ChicagoFundraiser
Three days until Face Your Fears and there’s still time to take your chances. 🕯️ One rather fortunate winner will escape to haunted Savannah, Georgia, with a getaway for two valued at $5,000. From a three-night downtown stay and haunted Savannah tour to a riverboat dinner cruise, Mercer Home tour, round-trip American Airlines vouchers, and more, this is one prize worth tempting fate for. Face Your Fears is almost here. Your trip to Savannah could be waiting on the other side. 🎟️ Purchase your raffle entries through the link in our bio. #HalloweenRaffle #HalloweenFundraiser #ChicagoFundraiser
Four days until the doors open. 🕯️ For months, an entire world has been taking shape for one night only. Gravestones have been carved, sets have risen, peculiar characters have found their places, and rooms have been transformed into something far stranger than we are willing to reveal just yet. Face Your Fears is an experience you have to step inside to understand. On October 30, guests will enter A Gothic Gala in the Court of Cursed Shadows, where cocktails, curiosities, haunting entertainment, costumes, raffles, an auction, and unexpected encounters await throughout the night. We have shown you glimpses. We have kept plenty hidden. In four days, you finally get to see what all the whispers have been about. Face Your Fears | October 30 | 6:30 PM | KLM Lodge, Hinsdale If you have been waiting to get your ticket, consider this your invitation from the shadows. 🖤 🎟️ Tickets and event details are available through the link in our bio. #ChicagoHalloween #ChicagoEvents #HalloweenFundraiser #ChicagoWesternSuburbs
Savannah has kept its share of secrets. You could be the one who goes looking for them. 🕯️ Two travelers, a Haunted Savannah escape valued at over $5,000, and perhaps a few unexpected companions along the way. While Savannah may be waiting, Face Your Fears is nearly here. There are only 5 days until the doors open this Friday, October 30, for our biggest fundraiser of the year. If you have been meaning to join us for A Gothic Gala in the Court of Cursed Shadows, now is the time to secure your place among the guests. 🎟️ Visit the link in our bio to purchase your Face Your Fears event and raffle tickets. Savannah awaits one lucky traveler. The Court of Cursed Shadows awaits you this Friday. #HalloweenGiveaway #SavannahGeorgia #HalloweenFundraiser
A little Halloween spirit, a little Lovey wisdom, and a whole week of reminders worth keeping close. 🎃🤍 From courage and creativity to imagination, play, and learning how to move through big feelings, this week’s Daily Lovey Hugs are all about the small things that help kids, and grown-ups, feel a little more grounded. #ChildhoodWellness #MentalWellnessMatters #ToolsForChildren
A rather fortunate invitation. 🕯️ On October 30, Face Your Fears returns to KLM Lodge for A Gothic Gala in the Court of Cursed Shadows, where guests will enter a world of cocktails and curiosities, haunting entertainment, peculiar encounters, costumes, raffles, an auction, and plenty of wonderfully unsettling surprises. With less than a week until The Lovey Project’s biggest fundraiser of the year, now is the time to answer your invitation. Every ticket helps support The Lovey Project’s childhood mental wellness programming while securing your place in a night designed to be unlike anything else on your October calendar. Join us October 30 at 6:30 PM at KLM Lodge in Hinsdale, and secure your tickets through the link in our bio before they disappear into the shadows. #HalloweenFundraiser #HinsdaleEvents #ChicagoHalloween #CommunityFundraiser
Somewhere between a donation drop-off of stuffed animals at Hephzibah Home and a Lego pile spilled across a day camp floor, you start to see the shape of a year. We unplugged with grown-ups at our first Adult Series event, read stories to a room full of kids tucked in among their Loveys, handed out books at Barnes & Noble, and cheered on a Color Walk for mental health. Each of these moments is small on its own. Put together, they're a community choosing comfort, connection, and a little unplugged time as something worth building into everyday life, not just talking about. And we’re not done yet. Our biggest fundraiser of the year is only 10 days away. On October 30, Face Your Fears brings our community together for a night of curious characters, spooky surprises, and plenty of beautifully strange fun, all in support of the work that fills the rest of our year. 🕯️ Every ticket, raffle entry, donation, and guest who walks through the doors helps us keep creating more of those small moments for kids and families. There is still time to join us. Face Your Fears tickets are available through the link in our bio. 🖤 #FamilyConnection #ScreenFreeTime #HalloweenFundraiser #CommunityFundraiser
Eleven days. That’s all that stands between you and something delightfully dreadful. 🕯️ On October 30, Face Your Fears takes over KLM Lodge for The Lovey Project’s biggest Halloween party of the year, and this is not your ordinary Halloween night out. Months of building, creating, and dreaming up every strange little detail are about to come together for one night only. We guarantee you'll be hearing about this Halloween party afterwards and wish you had been there to see for yourself. 🎃 Face Your Fears 📅 October 30 📍 KLM Lodge, Hinsdale 🎟️ Tickets available through the link in our bio You have been warned. #HalloweenParty #HalloweenFundraiser #HalloweenEvents #ChicagoWesternSuburbs #CommunityFundraiser
A week for cozy confidence, playful imagination, and the reminder that one hard moment is never the whole story. 🤍 This Daily Lovey Hug is full of little things worth carrying with you: belief, curiosity, comfort, patience, and the courage to keep going at your own pace. Sometimes feeling held, heard, and understood is where confidence begins. #EmotionalWellness #ChildhoodWellness #ComfortAndConnection
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Lovey Stories Contest

The Lovey Project’s 1st Annual Lovey Story Contest

The Lovey Project’ 1st Annual Lovey Story Contest We want to share your story. Do you have an endearing or funny story about a Lovey in your life? Tell us all about it! We are looking for 500-word essays that highlight and showcase the importance of Loveys in everyday life.
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The Lovey Project is inspired by the unbreakable bond between children and their treasured stuffed animals, “Loveys”.

This bond can provide children of all ages with constancy, physical & emotional support and unconditional love. Loveys are an anchor in unpredictable times. They can be a critical first step in the mental wellness journey of our most vulnerable population.

The Lovey Project

The Lovey Project’s mission is mental wellness.

We work with children ages 3-13, along with their families and communities.
We offer programming, events and resources to help children adapt early-learning tools and techniques for self-confidence, mindfulness, resiliency, focus and creativity in order to achieve long-term mental self-care success.

The Power of a Lovey: Featured in Hinsdale Living Magazine

The Power of a Lovey: Featured in Hinsdale Living Magazine
The Lovey Mission

The Lovey Mission

Our mission is to provide a bridge for children and their caregivers, offering skill-based learning and free-range play opportunities that help children navigate this new phone-based world with a healthy approach to mental wellness and self-care.

We accomplish this by offering programming and events, online resources and social media campaigns that children, families, caregivers and communities can use in order to build a strong foundation for mental wellness that will carry children through the teenage years and well into adulthood.

Lovey Stories

Daily #LoveyHug

For a quick, upbeat, meaningful message to start your day, check out our Daily #LoveyHugs on Facebook & Instagram. Remember – you can do it! The Lovey Project is here to help.

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Lost & Found

Lost & Found

Like Toy Story’s Woody says, “No toy left behind!” The Lovey Project is committed to helping children reunite with their best buddies, whether they’re fluffy, plastic or anything in between. Find out how!

Lost & Found

Mission Resources

Mission Resources

While The Lovey Project does not offer therapy directly, we can offer resources for that next step, if needed. Websites, books and other multi-media options are available by age, from toddler to teen to parent.

Mission Resources

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The Lovey Project needs
your help to reach our goals!

From monetary and supply donations to sponsoring programming or hosting events, as well as volunteer opportunities for all ages and abilities, The Lovey Project needs you!

Thank you for joining us as we strive to make the world a softer, safer, more caring place for children of all ages. We promise to take care of you, too. Together, we can do it – one Lovey at a time!

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