LovEvolve®

Often the hardest part of needing help is the part where you have to say it outloud. “What if they are busy.” “I dont want to bother anyone”. I should be able to do this myself.” LovEntourage takes that step away. Add your trusted circle of people who already said ‘let me know if you need anything’ - then just tap. Meals. A ride. Company. They wanted to help, now they know how. 💜 Explore more here: https://lnkd.in/eHBzWY8w

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We’re here for the Tuesday’s The birth is planned. The discharge is planned. The six-week visit is on the calendar. It’s the Tuesday three weeks later when she hasn’t slept, the house is quiet, and picking up the phone to ask for help feels harder than just not eating, or quietly struggling through the laundry. We built LovEntourage so she wouldn’t have to make that call. She taps once, and the people who already said “let me know if you need anything” now know exactly what she actually needs. 19,200 people have used it. 37% built a private circle of family and friends. 90% went looking for resources — 59,000+ times. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/eHBzWY8w

Emotional regulation doesn't begin with independence. It begins with connection. For babies and toddlers, learning to manage emotions starts with co-regulation, the process of caring adults helping children navigate big feelings through calm, responsive support. Whether it's holding a frightened toddler, comforting a crying baby, or staying present during a difficult moment, these everyday interactions help build the foundation for lifelong emotional well-being. Children don't learn emotional regulation by being left alone with big feelings. They learn because someone stayed with them through those feelings. Explore the science behind co-regulation and why these early moments matter: https://bit.ly/3GjZStn

People have often asked us why a blanket. Because when someone you love is going through the hardest thing, you want to do something. And so often what you can actually do is one small act in the middle of many things that feel overwhelming. You bring soup. You sit. You wrap them up. LovEvolve started from that instinct, that the small thing isn’t nothing, and that if you attach the right resources and connection to it, the small thing might actually be a big impactful thing. A swaddle that connects new moms to help at 3am. A blanket that connects someone newly diagnosed to so many resources and to people who love and support them. The comfort is real and the connection is exactly the point 💜

Always so amazed at the work of Cancer Retreat Centers and Kristin Harris! If you’re in and around Richmond in October, come join them for an Oyster Roast!

We have been in the season of transition around here, even more than usual honestly. And as transitions tend to do, they offer an opportunity for reflection. So we’ve been looking back, and discovered this month five years ago we were celebrating bringing love swaddles to a 5th hospital. (Henrico, Parham & Retreat Doctors' Hospitals, Bon Secours, CJW Medical Center, Spotsylvania Regional Medical Center - we see you!) 70,000+ babies and families and 21+ health systems later, we are still in awe 💜

Clayton, GA, we are so excited to be here and spread the love with all of you! 💕 Opening weekend was so special, and we felt the love from near and far! Thank you to everyone who stopped by, celebrated with us, and helped make our newest chapter feel so special. We are so grateful to officially call Clayton home and can’t wait for all the good things we’re creating, growing, and evolving toward! 💛 (You can also always find us online at www.lovevolve.com and at 5807 S in Richmond, VA)

So many firsts this week! As many of the children across the country go back to school, a week of firsts for them, we feel the same excited nervous jitters in our first week as well 💜. We are fully settled into our new homes in GA and VA and welcome you to visit! 5807 S (3008 Stony Point Road) in Richmond and 31-35 West Savannah St in Clayton, GA. And as always you can find us at www.lovevolve.com. Thank you for walking along beside us as we grow!

We’ve been writing a lot about transitions lately (ours, mostly :)). Boxes, thresholds, new rooms in VA and GA. But throughout each day we keep being reminded of transitions that don’t really move in a straight line. A few weeks ago, one of our team came by the store while we were packing up. Two people she loves, both immediate family, are living with cancer. Neither are a new diagnosis. One has carried it for years now, woven into the shape of ordinary days between ongoing treatment. The other has spent the last six months on a road that climbs and drops without warning, where good news and hard news often arrive in the same week. Before she left, she picked up a Love Blanket for each of them, and also one for herself. We talk about transitions like they have a beginning and an end. Some don’t. Some are just Tuesday, and then another Tuesday, and the quiet endurance of people who keep going anyway, and the people beside them who keep showing up. You can’t always smoothe out someone’s bumpy road, but you can remind them they are held, and they are not doing this alone…And then you show up again next Tuesday.