Healing the story you were given. Creating the story you deserve.
Precious Gem Creatives blends creativity, public health insight, and personal truth to help us understand ourselves, our journeys, and the systems that shaped us. This is a space for reflection, resilience, and reclaiming your narrative with intention.
My Story
I’m Ruby, a mother, clinician, and storyteller. Precious Gem Creatives is where I hold space for healing, for men and women’s voices, and for the hard conversations around maternal health and equity. I write about what I’ve lived, single motherhood, ADHD, postpartum shifts, and growing up and around environmental and racial inequities, and I turn it into tools, journals, and reflections for men and women who are still becoming.
Latest Blog Post
Black women are three times more likely to die from pregnancy-related causes, but the numbers don’t tell the whole story. Behind every statistic is a lived experience shaped by fear, dismissal, resilience, and the fight to be heard. This piece explores what data leaves unsaid and why dignified, affirming maternal care must go beyond survival.
Read more: Why Survival Is Not Enough: Black Maternal Health and Dignified Care
Healing My Story Journal
A guided space for reflection, cultural healing, and self-discovery. Each prompt invites you to reconnect with your truth.
Public Health & Advocacy
As a public health professional, I advocate for equitable care in maternal and child health; blending personal experience with systemic insight. Together, we can create spaces that honor women’s bodies, voices, and healing.
