The Story of #100DaysofWonder
The Story of #100DaysofWonder
BACKGROUND
D. Michele Perry is a multimedia artist, author & full-time encourager. She navigates life with 1 leg, 1 hip, a 96.3% fused spine, and had 23 surgeries by the time she was 13. No stranger to obstacles, she spent 7 years working and living in what is now South Sudan starting a community-based project that cared for hundreds of at-risk children and women.
Several years after returning to the USA, Michele was in a life-altering car accident that left her with a brain injury in 2018 that stole her words and her livelihood. She spent her first months of recovery in a dark, silent room and promised herself that if she ever built anything again it had to be something she loved more than all that was lost. It has been a 6-year fight to find new and better words and to be able to read and write again.
That’s where The Wonder Habit™ was born.
The Wonder Habit™ is a practice of cultivating simple everyday moments that deepen creativity and strengthen wholehearted connection to ourselves, one another, and the world around us.
Michele now leads a community of over 10.5K people who want to be more creative, feel less alone, and find wonder every day.
Her writing is real, engaging, and unapologetically transparent. Her art and creative work explore the connection, courage, and curiosity rooted in wonder as a daily practice, the beauty of the natural world, and the power of our unfolding stories.
The Wonder Habit™ exploded onto the scene in January 2024 when Michele invited her audience on Instagram to join her in #100DaysofWonder, creating based on simple one-word wonder prompts each day for 100 days.
She expected a few hundred people might see the post and 10-15 might jump in. Instead, her reel went viral to over 1.6 million, and 10,700 joined the project.
One subscriber noted that at the end of the 100 days, over a million new pieces of creative work will be out in the world. And many have shared stories of the impact of the community and creative practice being a place of beauty and calm in an often noisy, divided world.
SHORT BIO
D. Michele Perry is a multimedia studio artist, author & full-time encourager; a lover of blank canvases, open roads, & wild spaces. Michele is the creator of The Wonder Habit™, a creative community of more than 10.5K, where she writes and helps subscribers become more creative, feel less alone, and find wonder every day.
CONTACT:
D. Michele Perry
hello@dmicheleperry.com
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dmicheleperry/
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