As a daughter of a Black woman, I knows first hand how critical a mother's emotional presence and nurturing is if we want to have a life of joy, purpose and passion.
My work is about finding and reclaiming that joy and innocence by navigating the intersectionality of race and gender as it pertains to recognizing and healing generational trauma with the focus on mother daughter relationships in the Black community.
That's why I refer to it as a Black mother Wound. The most important relationship a child has is with their mother. She teaches by her actions if the world is safe, if we are worthy of love just by being alive or if we live in a lonely dangerous place that we have to betray ourselves in inorder to survive.
Healing from our individual and collecting Black mother wounds begins with opening up and having the difficult and often taboo conversations about our mamas. We can not heal what do not feel.