Healing on the Homeland

A Healing Homecoming for Southern Women & the Communities That Raised Us

Healing on the Homeland is a return to the old ways — to the porches, the bayous, the kitchens, and the quiet corners, when the grandmothers & elders served as a refuge of safety in our communities. It is a community-rooted healing space, especially for Black women across Louisiana’s bayou region who carry grief, brilliance, exhaustion, and resilience in equal measure. This offering restores what our ancestors practiced long before the word “therapy” existed:
shared story, collective care, spiritual grounding, and healing in community.

This community healing group is dedicated to nurturing the mental, emotional, and social well-being of women all along the many seasons of their womanhood journey. Rooted in cultural affirmation and deep care, this restorative circle offers a safe and empowering space for us to come together and, as our ancestors would say, “lay our burdens down.” This is a place where we remember we are worthy of being held, where our whole self is welcome—
our tears, our laugh, our silence, our rage, our softness, our brilliance.

Who This Space Serves:

We center the lived wisdom and layered identities of:

• BIPOC women seeking culturally-rooted healing

• Mothers navigating loss, love, and the unseen labor of care

• Women in helping professions—educators, nurses, mental health workers, social service providers—who give so much that they often have nothing left for themselves

Each circle is shaped around a shared identity or lived experience so that safety, belonging, and resonance can take root.

What We Explore Together:

In a slow, nurturing pace—aligned with the rhythm of the land and the season—we tend to the emotional, ancestral, and relational layers that shape our lives:

• Returning to emotional wellness through practices rooted in culture and connection

• Tending to stress and anxiety with more compassion, softness, and ease

• Releasing the “strong Black woman” survival roles that keep us from receiving care

• Re-parenting the inner child with gentleness and truth

• Healing shame and reclaiming the pleasure, beauty, and power of our bodies

• Untangling trauma-bonded relationships

• Honoring and processing grief in community

• Making space for joy, rest, creativity, and spiritual nourishment

How the Circle Works:

To maintain safety and intimacy, each Healing on the Homeland circle:

• Creates groups based on people who have a shared identity

• Is limited to 9 women

• Meets monthly for 9 months

• Gathers in-person at the Emotional Recovery Home in Thibodaux, LA and online

Before entering the group, each woman receives three 1-on-1 emotional recovery sessions(click here to learn more about these sessions). These sessions begin the personal grounding work needed to enter the collective space with clarity, safety, and self-trust. These individual sessions help each woman understand her needs, establish emotional safety, and arrive in the group grounded and supported.

Our group process is anchored in:

• Restorative Storytelling Circles

• Trauma-informed care

• Cultural reverence

• Community belonging

Cost & Community Access:

This offering is rooted in abundance, generosity, and justice. We use a sliding scale with several payment options based on your current financial reality.

Additional Community Formats:

Beyond the Healing on the Homeland circles, the Emotional Recovery Covenant offers additional entry points into healing and community care. Each one supports a unique part of the human journey while honoring cultural wisdom, trauma-informed practice, and collective belonging. These curated experiences help teams reconnect to their values, vision, and shared humanity through restorative, culturally-affirming practices. If your workplace or community group needs emotional support, conflict healing, or space to restore connection—this offering can be adapted to meet your needs.

We offer curated experience for:

• Educators and school teams

• Healthcare workers

• Government offices

• Staff retreats and professional development days

• Existing community groups

🌿 Well Circle Fellowship

A seasonal pathway for young adults and emerging leaders.
The Well Circle Fellowship brings restorative storytelling circles, emotional recovery practices, and peer-connected care to campuses and learning communities—especially HBCUs and regional universities. These circles support students and staff as they navigate identity, belonging, transitions, pressure, and the emotional demands of community life. Designed for Residence Life teams, affinity groups, student leaders, and campus professionals.

🛠️ Restoration Labs

Organizational healing for workplaces, teams, and helping professions.
Restoration Labs offers conflict healing, systems care, and emotional recovery support for organizations experiencing stress, rupture, burnout, or transition. Through storytelling circles, seasonal fellowships, emotional recovery sessions, and classes on trauma, the nervous system, and bias, teams learn to reconnect to themselves and to one another. This portal is especially supportive for hospitals, schools, social justice organizations, political offices, and healing collectives.

✨ Good Grief Circles (Retreat Offering)

A traveling circle for collective grieving, remembering, and renewal.
Good Grief Circles are designed for retreat centers and healing spaces around the world. These immersive sessions weave together somatic practices, cultural rituals, storytelling, and Earth-centered wisdom to help participants move through grief with community support. This portal allows the work to travel—bringing emotional restoration to people and places seeking depth, spaciousness, and soul-level connection.

Click below on learn more to contact us about these community offerings