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“If there’s a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.”~Toni Morrison
03/19/2026

“If there’s a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.”~Toni Morrison

“We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.”~Toni MorrisonLanguage is an enduring Freedom Pract...
03/06/2026

“We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.”
~Toni Morrison

Language is an enduring Freedom Practice that invites us to take ownership of ourselves and our collective humanity. Through language, we claim what is most important for our healing. Through language, we interrupt that which has come to rob us of our right to heal. Through language, the audacity of reclamation becomes the poetry of freedom.

This week in Freedom Practice, I used the emancipatory power of language to deconstruct the concept of sabbaticals, exposing the racial and class biases inherent in its traditional design and structure. I then invited Black women to redefine sabbatical through a healing-centered lens.

What radical possibilities exist when we get to define rest and renewal for ourselves? What healing systems, policies, and practices must we cultivate to bring those radical possibilities to life?

Black History is the work of remembering. Black History is an anthology—a collection of experiences, a mosaic of freedom...
03/02/2026

Black History is the work of remembering.

Black History is an anthology—a collection of experiences, a mosaic of freedom dreams fulfilled and freedom dreams interrupted.

It is the living archive of memory workers, cultural caretakers, and spirited freedom dreamers.

We owe it to ourselves and our history to keep and preserve a record — a record that holds within its spirit the grandeur of life of which Morrison speaks.

My year-long self-claimed sabbatical will, too, function as a record.

Follow me as I build a beautiful heirloom to pass on and pass down to the Culture.

There comes a point when waiting for permission and approval to rest is self-betrayal. The healing vibes of Freedom Prac...
02/27/2026

There comes a point when waiting for permission and approval to rest is self-betrayal.

The healing vibes of Freedom Practice invite us grant the Free Self radical permission to rest—unapologetically and abundantly.

First, though, we got some deconstructing to do!

Go ahead and place a three-minute timer on a device of your choosing and read how we are deconstructing sabbatical so that we may have good ground to cultivate a new way of claiming it for ourselves.

“You wanna fly, you got to give up the s**t that weighs you down.” Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon.What y’all giving up t...
02/23/2026

“You wanna fly, you got to give up the s**t that weighs you down.” Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon.

What y’all giving up to set yourself free?




A day after Toni Morrison’s birthday and launching a self-claimed sabbatical, I completed my reading of Dana A. Williams...
02/20/2026

A day after Toni Morrison’s birthday and launching a self-claimed sabbatical, I completed my reading of Dana A. Williams’ Toni at Random, a book I checked out from my neighborhood library back in August of 2025.

Chiiiiile, a long time comin’, but a time well spent with Toni’s legacy of story, editorship, and partnerships.

Dana Williams, thank you again for this labor of love and Freedom Practice.

I will return with my thoughts, breakthroughs, and testimonies.

For now, I raise one up to Toni 🥂 🤎

The mission of Genuine Force’s Freedom Practice is to co-create and sustain healing-centered, culturally responsive spa...
02/03/2026

The mission of Genuine Force’s Freedom Practice is to co-create and sustain healing-centered, culturally responsive spaces, systems, and practices that make freedom an embodied, lived experience. I am excited to collaborate with to offer a wellness space that invites leaders and Changemakers to a Dreamscape where they name themselves boldly into power, inviting them to show up as their most authentic and liberatory Selves.

In this space, not only do you get to free yourself, but you get to claim ownership of that Freed Self by way of Freedom Dreaming and Freedom Practice.

How are you naming yourself in this season?

It’s feeling like a Freedom Practice fellowship and conference are brewing if you ask me. 🤎🤎🤎“Black girl you are atlas....
12/09/2025

It’s feeling like a Freedom Practice fellowship and conference are brewing if you ask me.

🤎🤎🤎

“Black girl you are atlas.
You know the way back,
The way forward.
Black girl you are Atlas.
The way no one expected you to be the Fulfillment of prophecy.
But it is you, always, who
Holds the world up.”

“Is that your mother,” a 5th grade student asked me during our Freedom Practice Coaching session. “No. That is Toni Morr...
12/05/2025

“Is that your mother,” a 5th grade student asked me during our Freedom Practice Coaching session.

“No. That is Toni Morrison.” I beamed. “Have you heard that name before?”

The turn of her head from side to side informed me that she had not yet had the honor of making such acquaintance.

“Toni Morrison is one of the dopest writers and thinkers to have graced the Earth.”

“Really?” she inhaled in wonder, her eyes stretching alongside her imagination. “Well, she looks like she could be your mom.”

“Well…” I exhaled. “Her writing has mothered me in many ways.”

I love when Black girls meet Toni 🤎

October 23rd marked 8 years my mama has been absent in the flesh. I was too busy stewing about downing $70 for a margari...
10/28/2025

October 23rd marked 8 years my mama has been absent in the flesh. I was too busy stewing about downing $70 for a margarita and some damn fajitas to actually reflect.

The truth is, I’ll always reflect.

Hell, am I even the same person 8 years later?

So much has come to pass.

My thoughts are different.

My healing is different.

My career looks different.

My dreams look different.

My relationships look different.

My hair looks different lol.

Truly truly truly miss my mama.

Surely surely surely surely, goodness and mercy shall follow me.

In Freedom Practice: Black Grief🕊️Today, D’Angelo has transitioned into ancestry. 🕊️ Black people are mourning someone w...
10/14/2025

In Freedom Practice: Black Grief

🕊️Today, D’Angelo has transitioned into ancestry. 🕊️

Black people are mourning someone who helped us feel human and alive in a world designed to assassinate our spirit.

Black Grief is our Freedom Practice.

Historically, socially, and structurally, workplaces do not hold space for Black Grief. This is why the work that Alexander Hardy does with GetSomeJoy comes to mind because it provides a safe, communal space for that grief to land.

When we are confronted with the Return of someone like D’Angelo, it is not simply losing a celebrity. These are people who are a part of the seasoning of our mother’s Sunday dinner; part of the cleaning solution to Saturday house cleanings before we could go outside and play; part of the soundtrack to getting ready with your girls or making love with someone deeply cherished.

So if you are at work today when you received the news—if you are at work tomorrow and feeling your feels—give yourself the Radical Black Ass Permission to Pause. Pray. Dance. Say “thank you”. Check in with yourself, your body, your community. Allow Grief to tell you what it needs of you in this moment.

This, too, is Freedom Practice.

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