Imagine that there is something wrong with your body, and every time you go to a doctor to try to figure it out, you leave with more questions than answers. Now imagine everytime you go home, your brain prepares to fight for its survival. You fight to be allowed to go to the doctor. You endure physical and/or mental abuse, then conver up and hope you'll be allowed to go get new bloodwork totry to fix your battered body. Domestic Violence is horrible on its own. And so is rare and complicated medical conditions. But when put together, the fight to survive is lonely, painful, and only made more difficult as your treatment outside your body exsaserbates the issues within. TxPS aims to support Texans struggling through this battle by connecting resources, providing finacial support, and moral support. 

But we need a lot of help. There are many ways to show your support by donating time, money, or even items like artwork (or even old clothes in good condition). To see ways to donate, visit our support tab.

Together, let's support Texans in their fight against violence, inside and out.

Our Founder, Dr. Heather Miles, is is in a unique position. As someone who has been in the medical field for two decades and has a particular talent for pattern recognition, she tends to understand how the human body opperates and how ailments and genetic mutations interact with it. So when she started having severe, and nearly impossible to diagnose symptoms - she was able to understand and research possiblilities herself and advocate for tests and better care. But she knows not everyone suffering is able to that. Especially given the tendency to dismiss women as having "anxiety" or being hormonal.

Dr. Heather Miles is also no stranger to Domestic Violence. She spend 25 years married to someone physically, mentally, and emotionally abusive and nearly died to an event that shakes out as medical neglect at best, and something much darker at worst. Leaving was one of the most difficult things she's ever done - and that process is still ongoing. On the bright side, she struggles significantly less with her genetic disorders now that she is physically out of that situation.

One of the things that makes Heather special is how she handles adversity, which is by immediately wanting to help others that have gone through something similar. She has always been passionate about helping people in general, but she takes special care when she knows she has the lived experience to be able to truly reach out to people who need it. And that's what Texas Purple Stripes is. Our way of helping people who have gone through similar troubles. Because we have a good idea how hard it is - and we want to help.