Featuring You: Janine Salevsky and Natalia’s Endless Love

The Origins of Natalia’s Endless Love…

Like a magnificent pink afterglow of a late summer sunset, our magnanimous, happy, life-loving little girl made our universe complete. Until that one day, our lives changed forever. Our 10-year-old daughter Natalia, from complications relating to Leukemia, was one day here, and one day gone forever.

After my darkest hours, I made a promise… a promise that I would never allow Natalia to be forgotten. I would make it my mission to ensure that her luminescent spirit and passion to help others would continue.  Natalia's pureness of heart would live on and be honored by sharing in her handmade timeless treasures, ones that she herself once created, each embedded with special seeds of her purposeful love. In representation of that continual beacon of love light, our nonprofit organization, Natalia’s Endless Love was founded, sharing Natalia’s gifts of hand-made angels, dolls for those in need, and her artwork that beamed with her unique, special love.

What is the mission of Natalia’s Endless Love?

Our mission at Natalia’s Endless Love is to encourage and reaffirm the beauty and purpose we all possess, to elevate pure love at its finest with the joy of giving. We offer gifts representing LOVE, PEACE, and JOY to those who need it the most, including grieving children, community organizations, and individuals in hopes to potentially illuminate the corners of the world. Requests for Natalia’s Angels abound as we send uplifting hope-filled, often anonymous messages with each carefully handmade angel. To send an angel and be able to make a difference, to brighten someone's day at the moment when they may need it the most-for we all know someone who is in need of an angel.  The beauty of it all is that we may never know the impact of such an act of love.  We may never know how that love may be foster new abounding love.

Along with her angels, Natalia’s intention of providing dolls for children who may never obtain one, Natalia's Endless Love continues her goodness, with the comfort of a doll she so longed to provide to chosen individuals.  Albums filled with Natalia’s drawings that simply overflow with joyfulness and delight, there is an amazing pleasure in just being able to share her. By transforming them into inspirational cards, bookmarks, illustrations and such, individuals are able to witness  her inner peace and joy she so willingly desired to display.  Surely this is more than Natalia could have ever hoped for.  

What other missions do you service?

 Natalia's Endless Love illuminates the beauty of the human spirit of giving through our annual “Love Endures” event. Partnering with nursing homes, church groups, “makers” of special handmade gifts, we offer individuals the joys of being “secret angels” to unsuspecting souls, all rooted with a little girl’s special message. Participants who serve to witness the truest act of love whether they be "makers" or "secret angels" become forever changed, as witness to an unconditional love that is endless in its purest form.

During Natalia’s May birthday month, we give anonymously, those special hand-made gifts, leaving them for unsuspecting individuals. A gift with a message from an angel.   

The desire to share Natalia’s story and goodness has ushered me in directions I never imagined. As an author of now four books, I shed light through my journey. Natalia’s story,” Natalia’s Endless Love… A Love to Live For” as a reflection of that milestone, written as a testimonial tribute to Natalia and my family, but for the purpose of being that voice for others facing similar journeys. To be witness and to hope that perhaps some of my words and my experiences can be utilized to help others in their pain, transforms my longing into an overall sense of goodness.

The three books that follow “A Princess Heart” children’s books series are dear to my heart, as they feature Natalia’s drawings. These books portray stories showcasing the pureness of a hope-filled heart through cheery illustrations, laying witness to the beauty of innocence of a child’s soul. My latest, ”A Princess Heart Shines Like Taylor Swift”, a deeply felt, recounted story of Natalia’s love for her favorite star and how Taylor’s love continues to live on and unite the world.

What have you gained from your journey?

Janine Salevsky

The most remarkable part of my journey has been the evolving of my faith. Such a loss yields immeasurable pain, and to face it alone is daunting. Faith opens doors and leads you a path in realizing that love is indeed eternal. The cruel reality is that time marches on, whether you accept it or not and in your darkest hours, faith sets a course to be able to find yourself in the light. Ever present, grief, in all its magnitude, takes on the space where your loved one once was. An unraveling of sorts, it cuts through like a dull knife, replacing the love that once existed. Unbearable at first, but with time, the edges that were once raw, begin to mend. For grief is not a burden to be masked. It is proof that love existed in its most beautiful form, and channeling that grief back into love is key. It fosters goodness, and slowly allows one to be that glimmer of light, that candle that passes it’s light to others without being extinguished. It’s a testament to that love, one that illuminates the depth of your heart, and allows one to carry both love and loss together. And with that are the possibilities of faith in that eternal love... for a light that touches others, no doubt, goes on forever.

Natalia’s Endless Love’s intention is to connect with individuals who may be struggling, either with loss or hardship- for everyone’s journey, much like a fingerprint, is specific to them and them alone. My purpose- to validate and inspire hearts with the gift of love, so that they may embrace in their own time, a crisper, much richer appreciation of life, engulfed in a deeper love of their own. By spreading Natalia’s love and her special gifts, I foster and share her seeds of goodness and kindness with the world. For goodness and love always reigns. Please reach out and feel free to contact us through our nonprofit foundation, www.nataliasendlesslove.org