I’m Getting Ready

Healing from life as a directly impacted grassroots community-based leader during pandemic and beyond. Returning to self and letting the residual impact of this trauma roll off my body, mind, spirit, and soul is a journey. To survivors who heal. This is it.

Via Hanul Family Alliance; Author speaks at a rally at the Capitol

I’ve been on a journey

Trying to find my heart again.

Coming back. Slowing down.

Regulating my nervous system.

Understanding the impact of The Struggle

On my womanhood, my Soul.

Thanking God for the Call

And Anointing,

And now — for permission to

Lay it all down.

I continue to surrender more.

And unlearn

To become the woman I always prayed to be.

We are not martyrs.

I am both a Leader and a Helper.

But in order to be so,

I must allow myself to be Led, too.

Even by the most unlikely of those

I think would have been called.

Let go of bitterness shut up in my bones.

Of resentment.