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Healing the Story. Understanding the System. Reclaiming the Narrative.
Every post begins with a truth. Every truth becomes a layer peeled back.
Here, personal experience and public health come together to reveal how trauma, culture, and policy shape our lives long before we ever name the pain. This blog is a space for reflection, storytelling, learning, and unlearning as you heal the story you were given and create the one you deserve.
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What You Need to Know About Expanded ACEs: A Culturally Grounded View of Trauma
Expanded ACEs: A Culturally Grounded View of Trauma Inspired by the work of Dr. Mariel Buqué Black and Brown communities are not “more traumatized” because of culture. They are more exposed to trauma because of systems. Traditional ACEs, or Adverse Childhood Experiences, focus primarily on household level adversity. They fail to fully capture the structural,…
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Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs): How Childhood Trauma Becomes Embedded in the Body
Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) are traumatic events impacting children from birth to 18, affecting their psychological and physical well-being. ACEs lead to heightened risks for numerous health issues later in life. Current research is expanding the understanding of adversity to include systemic factors that affect marginalized communities, promoting a more inclusive approach to healing.
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Explore My Real Life Version Of Parentification
There are experiences you don’t recognize as trauma while you’re living them. You just call it helping, being mature, or doing what needed to be done. It isn’t until adulthood, when exhaustion sets in, boundaries feel foreign, and your worth feels tied to usefulness, that you finally have language for what you lived through. For…
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Why Survival Is Not Enough: Black Maternal Health and Dignified Care
Before the numbers, there are names. Before the reports, there are bodies. Before the statistics, there are stories that live in the nervous system long after the charts are closed. This is one of those stories. And it is not mine alone. The statistics on Black maternal health have been telling the same story for…
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What It’s Like Raising Children Between Two Cultures
Raising my daughter between two cultures means everything to me. It is not just about geography or heritage. It is about grounding her in values, history, and a sense of self that she can return to no matter where life takes her. My Bahamian roots shape the way I move through the world, and I…
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What Healing Looks Like in This Season of My Life
Healing used to feel like something I had to rush. Like there was a finish line I was supposed to cross, a version of myself I was supposed to arrive at, and once I did, everything would finally make sense. For a long time, I measured my progress by how productive I was, how strong…