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Help us get back on our feet!

I started this as a way for crowdfunding for my small business... the business I started to save my kids and myself. And now we need help more than ever! And now I can finally post the truth.

Now- 6/01/2018
Healing has been super challenging because of flashbacks and c-ptsd that already exists. He had a gun to my head 3 times in 6 months and I am not sure that I will ever be able to shake that. It has made it impossible for me to look for a job outside of my small business but that still is only making me around $100 a month.
(www.rusnocknaturals.com)
We appreciate all of the support so much! Especially now with our house taxes coming due 6/30/2018 I am beyond stressed and really need the support more than ever. I was able to get a vehicle but now we could lose our home. Its hard to stay optimistic and strong lately.
I am working on my business and working on my memoir and staying as busy as possible and will be going back to my trauma therapist asap. one day at a time.

we were able to visit my home town now that we are mobile! it was a much needed mini vacation!










On 4/20/18 I was finally strong enough to take a stand for my kids and I.

Almost a year ago I started this business as a way out. A way to save myself and my kids.

I married a total con artist abusive narcissist who is a drug addict.

He moved me and my daughter 2 hours away from our life, promising he was not using. At the time I had a few years clean under my belt.

I moved down here in June 2013 and 2 days before our 1 year anniversary that September, I found the first needle in the garage. And I just remember screaming and the world around me spinning. I just wanted to give up. I was conned. I was cheated out of life. But I already loved him and KNEW I had to try and help him.

Once I found out about that I instantly learned an entirely new personality of his. One who would yell at me over eyeing up a cup of cereal while we were trying to get healthy and such. One that would bully and mock my daughter and blame her for everything. One that got mad at me because I told him I would always choose my kids over anyone else.

Things didn't get better and I ended up moving back home after some time, to my parents house. They're very toxic, abusive, and always drunk and my dad would call me a slut in front of my then 3 year old little girl. My now husband, then boyfriend, came up to my parents house, promised to go to rehab and work a program and I believed him and he brought my daughter and I back down here. He never changed. Sure he had times where he would get some clean time in but it never would last.

As of now haven't talked to my family in 3 years. In that time we have had a son and we got married. I always kept thinking I could save him but I was so wrong.

I decide to have a child with this man because I never let his using define him and I loved him and underneath all of the drugs and what not he showed me nice parts of himself and kept me hooked. But I still knew it wasn't ok and I wasn't truly happy.

6 months ago he went to rehab for 2 weeks, as soon as he came home he was using again. In the last 6 months he has left bruises on me and put a loaded gun to my head 3 times. In the last 2 months I have been really working on myself. Got off psych meds (i am diagnosed with bi polar disorder, anxiety, depression, ptsd and adhd) and switched to vitamins and meditation and therapy techniques. and lots of practice breathing.

Yesterday I found all of the strength I could muster up and I found help. I got a PFA and allowed a search of our properties. My kids and I are finally free and hopefully safe.

Before I moved down here I had my own apartment, my own car, now I have his house and no car and hardly any money.

My business is still slowly growing and now I have to make even bigger moves that I am not prepared for in any way except for mentally.

Please share or donate so that my kids and I can move on with our lives without losing anything more. We need to catch up on taxes on our home and get a vehicle as well as funding for our small business and my memoir that is being published in October.







So I am almost officially 1 year (May 1st) into my small business, Rusnock Naturals, and now I am looking for the best way to gain more exposure outside of Facebook and I felt that this was a great way to start.

Rusnock Naturals is my small business and I handcraft all natural beauty and wellness essentials! No toxins or preservatives that have been linked to several cancers and diseases.
www.rusnocknaturals.com

follow me at Rusnock Naturals on Facebook, Twitter, IG, and Pinterest

I make anything that I can. I do offer customized products and whole sale!

I make anything from soap, laundry detergent, sunscreen, deodorant, to body butters, perfume rollers, shampoo bars, and a lot of what I make is made to order.

Now I am at the point where I really want to expand into more bar soap to have on hand for upcoming vendor shows this summer, especially when they can take up to 6 weeks to cure! I also have decided to start candles! These vendor shows are $50-$75 for the weekend and I have not signed up for them yet due to being unsure of the inventory that I will be able to have one hand.

All donations will go towards business materials, traveling costs, and vendor show fees, and anything pertaining to my small business. We also need a vehicle to accomplish the majority of this. I lost almost everything because of my husband.

This is important to me for several reasons:
-Taking toxic chemicals out of our daily lives as much as possible
-The ability to help and educate others
-Not supporting giant corporations who use unnecessary toxins and test on animals etc
-Being able to provide for my family
-To become successful despite living with bi polar disorder and other mental and physical health issues that have always held me back in life.
-We need to do better for our planet, our home!

I have so many big plans but lack the funds to make them all come to fruition and it definitely due to lack of exposure.

If this is a cause that you would like to support we are so grateful!

or maybe you would like to place an order, which is also an amazing way to support our mission!
www.rusnocknaturals.com

If you could at the very least share this campaign so that we can reach as many people a possible that would be wonderful!!<3

We currently carry for products for men, women, and children. We will be starting an All Natural Pet Line in the future as well!

-Kristina Rusnock

Organizer

Kris Tina
Organizer
Ellwood City, PA

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