To the black girl who is grieving the life she thought she would have by now, I see you.

So many of us are living in a reality that we never expected or planned for. We feel angry, we feel lost, we may even feel numb here. Yet, what we refuse to feel may be the key to actually transcending this space and moving towards something greater: grief.

Grief can be a heavy emotional experience that’s hard to hold, but it’s so necessary. Sometimes, when we feel stuck in life, it’s because we refuse to travel through grief in order to make room for the future we want. Grief is a natural and needed flow of pain and preservation that our bodies travel through so that we can honor what was, release what is no longer, and make room for what is to come.

This month, we’re talking about being a black girl in bloom, and grief is a pivotal part in our process to change: 

• Making room for those of us living a life we did not plan for or want
• Understanding the power of allowing grief in all of its forms
• Visioning the steps we can take to allow grief to flow through us
• The opening that grief can create for something new and something worth making space for

Stay tuned for all four episodes this month as we create a blueprint for your season in bloom 🤎

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To the black girl answering the call to step into something new, even when it’s scary, I see you.

As much as we want to bloom like beautiful flowers, we might resist the journey it takes to get there. The process of growth and transformation is one of the most vulnerable, unsettling times in our lives. Change asks us to grieve who and what we know, and open our hearts to who we know we were destined to be. 

As scary as it might be, we can gently come out of hiding and usher in a kind, restorative, life-shifting journey towards a life of being seen. The life we really want.

This month, we’re talking about being a black girl in bloom, and the general experiences we might have while in that season of change: 

• Being in hiding and the ways we are out of alignment with the life we want
• Being in mourning and the process of grieving the life we knew and the life we thought we would have
• Being in waiting as we pace and prepare for what’s to come
• And being in healing, and how we forget about the active role we play in sustaining what we ask for

Stay tuned for all four episodes this month as we create a blueprint for your season in bloom 🤎

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Healing our relationships with our bodies may be one of the most challenging forms of love we know.

In this episode, we’re joined by Trauma + Disordered Eating/Eating Disorder Therapist Herani Argoe, LPC to explore what it means to feel “seen” in your body. We’re tackling the topic of repairing and cultivating a safe and restorative relationship with our bodies. We’ll discuss:

• What radical body care looks like
• How to build sustainable relationships with food and movement
• How healing in the body includes our ability to feel and process emotions
• Caring for our body through transitions (growing older, chronic pain and health, motherhood, etc.) that empower our most loving versions of self-possession

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It might be time to revisit the ways your family relationships shaped your world.

While we may be familiar with family dynamics leaving us feeling unseen, we’re not always comfortable acknowledging what that means for our healing work and our needs. 

In this episode, we discuss:

• How we heal from the experience of feeling unseen in our families of origin
• Four main “relational injuries” we might experience in our families and early childhood experiences
• Important questions to ask before going no-contact (or choosing something else, like low-contact)
• What feeling seen in family today might look like 
• Embracing chosen family as our path towards the love we seek

Suggested Reading: all about love by bell hooks

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Many of us struggle with boundaries and even consider them as barriers to others, but what if boundaries are the foundations of the love we want?

Let’s dive even deeper into boundary-setting with Dr. Ayanna Abrams, a sought-after licensed psychologist and Relationship and Boundaries expert. In this episode, we discuss boundary-setting as a vulnerability practice and how they protect our well-being in aid of safe and powerful intimate connections. We’ll also discuss how boundary-setting begins within, how to practice self-grace, and how boundaries actually open doors to the love we want, in all relational forms.   

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Sometimes we hide in the one relationship type we’d never suspect: in romance.

Hiding in romantic relationships can look like a variety of ways we try to stay safe, resist real intimacy, or protect from getting hurt. The problem? It doesn’t always save us from pain and disappointment, but it often blocks us from experiencing the love we want.

In this episode, we discuss:

• How we hide in romantic relationships
• Underlying triggers that make it hard to practice vulnerability in romance
• How we can make romantic love a part of our lives, and not the whole of our lives
• How being seen in romantic love starts within

Suggested Reading: all about love by bell hooks

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What happens when we hide from feelings?

In this episode, we learn about the ways we hold our breath by over-valuing being “strong”, how the art of unraveling is sacred healing, and finally letting it out can help us feel seen.

We discuss:

• What the Art of Unraveling is and why it’s so crucial to our healing
• The Strong Black Woman (SBW) schema is, where it comes from (hint: not from us!), and how it stalls our healing
• Offering ourselves grace for how we’ve learned to suppress our emotions
• How to slowly build capacity to allow ourselves to unravel
• Practical ways we can allow ourselves to unravel and be our own safe place to land

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What happens when we hide from ourselves?

In this episode, we learn about the ways we self-abandon, and how the art of staying can help us feel seen. We discuss:

• Why we self-abandon and self-neglect
• Offering ourselves grace for how we’ve let ourselves down
• How to connect the dots behind why we hide from ourselves
• How self-hiding perpetuates the very patterns we want to be free from
• And how to begin grounding and building emotional muscle to practice the art of staying

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Sometimes, the key to having the year you hope for… is allowing yourself to be seen.

By practicing vulnerability, you allow space for your needs to get met, more intimacy, and more peace by showing up as your true self. Make this year you stop hiding by opening up to new practices that once felt out of reach.

In this episode:

• We explore how allowing yourself to be seen helps you build a life you love
• Four key areas to practice more vulnerability: routine, relationships, risk-taking, and rest
• Practical suggestions, both big and small, to help you practice living seen
• Reminders to encourage you along the way

I look forward to what 2026 has in store for us, and I hope it leaves you feeling a lot more seen, heard, and cared for. Be sure to subscribe to stay on the path with me 🤎

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I hope you end this year feeling seen. 

The end of the year can be emotional and heavy, especially if the year felt challenging. In this episode, I’m sharing a few warm words to help you remember the core of it all: you deserve your flowers for making it through this year.

Whether you’re celebrating the year you just had, or grieving it, you deserve your flowers. We’ll remind ourselves of what we can feel proud of, how to honor our needs as we close out this chapter, and some journaling practices to help us feel grounded, cared for, and seen as we enter the next chapter.

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