{"id":12109,"date":"2022-06-06T09:43:06","date_gmt":"2022-06-06T13:43:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/?p=12109"},"modified":"2022-06-07T09:03:15","modified_gmt":"2022-06-07T13:03:15","slug":"elizabethtown-college-student-honoring-sisters-memory-through-non-profit-bakery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/2022\/06\/06\/elizabethtown-college-student-honoring-sisters-memory-through-non-profit-bakery\/","title":{"rendered":"Elizabethtown College Student Honoring Sister’s Memory Through Non-Profit Bakery"},"content":{"rendered":"

Abbey Wolf, the younger sister of Elizabethtown College Occupational Therapy student Kayla Wolf ’22 M’23, always had a deep love for baking and sweet treats. Her happiest moments were often while whisking something up in the kitchen, her passion going so far that her family even called her their little Martha Stewart.<\/p>\n

\u201cAbbey was an amazing, talented, sweet, funny, and athletic girl,\u201d Kayla said. \u201cShe excelled at anything she tried. One of the things she loved to do most was baking!\u201d<\/p>\n

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For many, Abbey’s creations felt like more than just desserts.\u00a0She often baked for neighbors, relatives, family, and friends.<\/p>\n

“She made everything with her secret ingredient, love. We say that Abbey\u2019s therapy was baking,\u201d Kayla said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Tragically, the Wolf family lost 14-year-old Abbey, who struggled with anxiety and depression, to suicide on Saturday, November 7, 2020.<\/p>\n

Needing an outlet for their grief, the Wolf family sought to transform their tragedy into a way to help others. One way to accomplish that goal, they realized, was through Abbey’s fondness for baked goods.<\/p>\n

The result: Abbey\u2019s Bakery<\/a>, which combines Abbey\u2019s favorite recipes with the Wolf family\u2019s mission to raise awareness and encourage conversations around mental health and suicide prevention.<\/p>\n

Featuring different recipes for desserts, such as Abbey\u2019s famous banana bread and cookies, on the bakery\u2019s website was just the beginning for the Wolf family. They also make appearances at various mental health events, spreading Abbey\u2019s story as they go.<\/p>\n

The team at Abbey\u2019s Bakery strives to spread the idea of, \u201cIt\u2019s okay not to be okay\u201d and, \u201cIt\u2019s okay to ask for help.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cGetting these messages out to everyone is what drives us every day,\u201d Kayla said.<\/p>\n

Through their work with Abbey\u2019s Bakery, the Wolf family has been able to continue their own, more personal motto of, \u201cputting our grief to work.\u201d This mindset was one of the biggest influences while they were developing their idea for a non-profit.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Abbey\u2019s Bakery has collaborated with multiple local and national organizations, as well as individuals with their own impactful stories about mental health and suicide. Abbey and her family have attended Montgomery County and Bucks County National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) suicide prevention walks, numerous mental health fairs, and partnered with the Abington Police Department to host the inaugural mental health fair, \u201cLet\u2019s Talk Mental Health.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt truly is a hidden blessing to be able to help others in the midst of our tragedy,\u201d Kayla said.<\/p>\n

To support Abbey\u2019s Bakery, visit abbeysbakery.com<\/a> where visitors can find a schedule of events and donation information. You can also follow the organization on Instagram<\/a> and Facebook<\/a> where people are encouraged to tag Abbey\u2019s Bakery in photos of Abbey\u2019s recipes.<\/p>\n

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Mental Health Resources<\/a>
\n<\/strong>NAMI Helpline<\/a>: 1-800-950-NAMI (6264)
\nNational Suicide Prevention Hotline<\/a>: 1-800-273-TALK (8255)
\nCrisis Text Line<\/a>: Text TALK or NAMI to 741741<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Abbey Wolf, the younger sister of Elizabethtown College Occupational Therapy student Kayla Wolf ’22 M’23, always had a deep love for baking and sweet treats. Her happiest moments were often while whisking something up in the kitchen, her passion going so far that her family even called her their little Martha Stewart. \u201cAbbey was an […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":150,"featured_media":12110,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[775],"tags":[1520,1408,197,1517,1522,1521],"class_list":["post-12109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus","tag-abbeys-bakery","tag-elizabethtown","tag-elizabethtown-college","tag-etown-college","tag-mental-health","tag-non-profit","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/150"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12109"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12129,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12109\/revisions\/12129"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}