Rest Reclaimed
Look at The Root
Look at the Root.
📍 Cape Coast Fort, Ghana 🇬🇭
This started as a response to one post about who Juneteenth belongs to. It became something bigger — about who benefits when we believe the worst about each other. About the ache underneath the argument. About a culture that already is the homeland, even when we've been taught not to see it that way.
Where The Journey Begins
I am a daughter, a mother, a grandmother, a sister, and a friend — and for over 25 years I carried that same love into the most critical moments of other people's lives. Holding space for survivors of trauma, assault, and abuse as an Emergency and Critical Care nurse, a SANE nurse, a Nurse Case Manager, a Director of Nursing, and a Forensic Nurse Specialist — I spent my life building bridges between broken systems and hurting people, showing up for others at their most vulnerable.
Change’s power
We are witnessing a time unlike anything many of us have experienced in our lives. Like many of you, I am trying to make sense of it all — contemplating what to do. Do we hold firm? Do we keep our grip on the things we believe in so deeply, clinging to what is already falling? No matter where we stand on the issues, one thing is evident for all of us — there is a massive shift in energy.
The Root Does Not Change: The Movement You Should Be Aware Of
What if the movement that sounds the most like liberation is the one you need to examine the most carefully? Not because the pain it speaks to isn't real. It is. But here is what we need to sit with…..