My Story

I was born and raised on the bayou in South Louisiana, in a small country town, called Thibodaux - a land shaped by water, memory, and survival. This land taught me early how to listen — not just to words, but to what lives underneath them. I come to this work through my own experience of darkness. For much of my life, I moved through the world carrying wounds I did not yet have language for. I learned to adapt. To achieve. To be strong. From the outside, I appeared connected — surrounded by friends, responsibilities, and forward motion. But inside, I felt unseen. Disconnected from myself, from my body, from the land beneath my feet. Trauma had shaped my nervous system so quietly and so completely that I did not realize how much of my life was organized around survival.

My suffering became so loud that it could no longer be contained. It cracked me open. That opening was not an ending. It was a portal. Through processing my grief, integrating the wisdom of stillness, and listening deeply to the parts of me that were suffering, I began to see myself with new eyes. What I once feared as darkness became an anchor — a place of revelation rather than absence. It was there that I felt the presence of those who came before me most clearly. My grandmother Irene, and the long line of Black Southern grandmothers whose prayers, care, and endurance made my life possible, were guiding me home.

This work is birthed from their prayers.

It is part of a larger homecoming — a return to the ancestral ways our communities have always used to heal in relationship, rather than in isolation.

The approach I carry comes from an ancient lineage of Earth-centered healing rooted in my Yoruba ancestry of Benin and Nigeria. Long before therapy existed as a profession, our communities gathered in well circles — spaces where people could bring their grief, their questions, and their transitions into the presence of others. These circles allowed people to metabolize experience, restore balance, and remember themselves. 

This is the tradition that restored me. And it is the tradition I now carry forward. I offer this work as someone who has walked this path, and who continues to walk it — guided by my ancestors, supported by the land that raised me, and committed to helping others remember that they, too, were never alone.

Our Story

The Emotional Recovery Covenant honors and weaves together the ancestral wisdom passed down through generations of Storytellers, Pattern Seers, Circle Keepers, Culture Bearers, and Tribal Counsel members.

We pay tribute to all those who have paved the way before us, creating space for our voices to be heard in this moment. This includes researchers, sacred scientists, ancestors, and all beings, seen and unseen, whose contributions have shaped the wisdom we now carry forward.

Collectively, our deepest training came through lived experience — through learning how to sit with grief, listen to the body, and trust the insights that emerge when we slow down enough to hear what has always been there. When we honor cycles of darkness, rest, and reflection, the nervous system finds its way back to balance. From that place, clarity returns. Connection returns. Life returns.

As such, the Emotional Recovery Covenant and the programs we cultivate are founded from those same healing practices that are inspired by Nature, backed by Science, rooted in Ancestral wisdom, and accessible to All. Our approach centers ecological, sustainable, and inclusive paths to well-being, promoting health equity through a trauma-informed lens. We recognize that we are all on a lifelong healing journey—one that requires understanding the individual and societal traumas we’ve inherited, as well as the biases and behaviors that have emerged as a result.

Together, we are intentionally working to create more balanced, trauma-informed systems that foster shared understanding, belonging, and healing for everyone.