WHOLE AGAIN: Crowning her scars — how a mother’s love led to Shelley Barry’s second act

At 24, a bullet severed Shelley Barry’s spine, leaving her breathing and speaking through a tube in her throat. Her mother began making necklaces from scraps of cloth and old jewellery to hide the tube and make her daughter feel beautiful again. Nearly 30 years later, those necklaces have become Whole Again Jewellery — a business born from trauma and transformed into a celebration of life, joy and thriving.