PinnedBrown Girl Lost: Exploring Mental Health as a Black Woman in AmericaToday I go public on a very personal journey, one that I had carried with shame for the past 40 years. It’s time to get real and remove…Oct 11, 2020Oct 11, 2020
Book Excerpt: A Legacy of Strength — Finding Peace Amid PainRemembering my mom in honor of National Suicide Prevention Awareness MonthSep 251Sep 251
Book Excerpt: Tribute to a Queen — My Grandmom RosettaMy book project has been a labor of love, and I’m taking my time on it. I decided to post an excerpt of my writing on this day, which…Aug 26Aug 26
Mother’s Day 2023: Lessons on love and loss 42 years laterChronicling my family’s mental health and healing story as I write my memoirMay 14, 2023May 14, 2023
My mother is my hero. Reframing my shame about her death.My mom was an amazing, fun, brilliant woman, whose blood courses through my veins. Today she would have been 77. But unfortunately she only…Nov 15, 2022Nov 15, 2022
Mom’s been gone 40 years. I finally can talk about her struggle with mental illness.It’s Mother’s Day. I awoke at 3:45 am. Couldn’t go back to sleep, so I choose to write. Each Mother’s Day lands on me totally different…May 9, 20211May 9, 20211
Author, heal thyself… the pain of unmasking my family’s tragedy.Writing a memoir about mental illness, suicide, alcoholism and poverty has changed me already. I’m not the same person I was 15 months ago…Feb 6, 20211Feb 6, 20211
The Case for Hope in 2021: Caring for Our Mind, Body and Spirit During a PandemicIt’s December 2020, nearly a year since the scourge of COVID-19 took over our world, and just a couple weeks away from a new year.Dec 18, 2020Dec 18, 2020
It’s always about race. Let’s not kid ourselves.I originally wrote this back in August. This was sitting in my computer, having done its job to provide a moment of catharsis.Oct 25, 2020Oct 25, 2020
