Category Archives: Healing Tattoos

“I wanted [my tattoos] to be visible because to me they are reminders of my daughter, and they were symbols of her and I wanted people to able to ask about them.” “I didn’t want it to be hidden away. She is already sort of hidden in our family because people can’t see her like they seeContinue reading “Cherry Blossoms”

After being tattooed together, these siblings surprised their grandmother with this lovely memorial tattoo of their grandfather’s signature.

Struggling to find someone on her own, this woman figured she would prolong getting married by getting her parents to arrange it, but they called her the next day saying they found the perfect person for her. She met him and was instantly “swept off her feet.” They married and had a child. When she was pregnant withContinue reading “Husband’s name”

This mother and bereaved wife persisted through her grief after her husband died. When her daughter, a toddler at the time, tapped this heart tattoo her mother had gotten of his fingerprint, the mother would say: “That’s Daddy’s…You have Daddy’s heart.”

These tattoos celebrate the life of this mother’s son.  He had many tattoos and wanted his mother to get one, but she refused. After he died at the age of 18, she got several in his honour. The tattoo on her leg depicts warm weather, palm trees and beaches in paradise. “There is a beach with twoContinue reading “Everett”

The tattoo shown above represents the love this mother and her only sonshared. His baby footprints form the V and the crown is oneof the son’s drawings. ‘Believe’ is a word that is displayed throughout this mother’s home as her only son would always say “Mom, you have to believe.” “He was a really lovingContinue reading “Love and believe”