Heidi Feek Renovates Sister Indiana's Bedroom, Hopes She'll 'Be Able to Visit' Soon amid Dispute with Dad Rory Feek

Mar. 15, 2025

Heidi, Indiana and Hopie Feek.Photo:Heidi Feek/Instagram

Heidi Feek/Instagram

Heidi Feekis eagerly awaiting the day her younger sister Indiana can visit her in Alabama amid anongoing disputewith their father Rory Feek.

More than two months into Heidi’s fight toreopen a line of communicationwith Indiana, 10, amid a disagreement with Rory over her care, the singer-songwriter shared that she’s renovated Indiana’s room at her house as a form of “self care.”

She then panned across the pink bedroom, which features a white canopy bed, a corner with toys and books and a framed sign above the bed that reads, “I am kind, I am smart, I am brave, I am strong, I am beautiful, I am powerful, I am grateful, I am worthy, I am loved, I am Indy.”

Heidi Feek shows off Indiana’s new bedroom.Heidi Feek/Instagram

“A lot of folks thought that my post about her room meant she was coming,” Heidi wrote in a follow-up Story. “No unfortunately not. But for my own self care, we redid her room and it’s ready whenever she is able to come visit. I’m sorry if my optimism was confusing. I continue to hope she will be able to visit us someday soon.”

Heidi and Rory, 59, have been at odds over Indiana in recent months, as Rory has barred Heidi and her sister Hopie, 36, from contacting the child due, he says, to their differing worldviews. Heidi and Hopie took legal action against their father in the fight for time with Indiana in early September, though details of the filing remain confidential, as Indiana is a minor. Legal proceedings remain ongoing.

Heidi says she last saw Indiana in June, and that since then, she’s sent multiple unanswered texts to Rory asking about the child, who previously had been able to enjoy sleepovers at Heidi’s house. Rory wrote in ablog postin August that Indiana — who lives with Rory in Tennessee — “absolutely” misses her older sisters, and asks about them “all the time and would love to see them.”

Heidi Feek’s Instagram Story.Heidi Feek/Instagram

Still, he said he’d stopped allowing sleepovers because Heidi and Hopie “refused to respect my wishes when she was there,” and that the crux of the disagreement was the kinds of entertainment each party wanted to expose Indiana to.

In a letter to Rory shared publicly in September, Heidi’s husband Dillon Hodges said he’d tried “to respect” Rory’s wishes when Indiana — whose mother Joey Feek died in 2016 — visited their home.

“We never allowed her to look at screens, and always prayed before meals, etc. I’ll admit that I regularly let her listen to Disney songs (and sometimes even Whitney Houston) on my iPhone,” Hodges wrote. “I know you said no music, but please don’t punish the girls for my actions.”

Heidi Feek and Indiana Feek.Heidi Feek/Instagram

Heidi previously claimed that Indiana was not safe, as Rory and his new wife Rebecca are raising her within Homestead Heritage, a faith-based community that Heidi claimed in an Instagram post has a “troubling history" relating to child safety — an allegation the group strenuously denies.

“I really just want to be able to be in my little sister’s life and I can’t. I’m trying to do the right thing,” she previously told PEOPLE.

source: people.com