REFLECTIVE ESSAYS ON GRIEF, HEALING, WONANHOOD AND RACE
I write from the particular towards the universal, beginning with lived experience and following it into wider questions about loss and grief, inner-healing, selfhood, relationships, mortality, and meaning. These essays are reflective rather than academic. They are shaped by psychology, philosophy, spiritualism, and social context. Some begin with a personal story, others with a question, an observation or a tension I cannot quite leave alone. Together, they form an evolving record of how I am thinking about what it means to live, lose, change and become.
DIAMONDS AND DUST: ON HEALTH GRIEF, MORTALITY AND THE ART OF PARTICIPATING IN LIFE
An exploration of health grief, mortality and what it means to participate in life after illness disrupts our sense of certainty. Through the experience of breast cancer, Diamonds and Dust considers the body, recovery, identity, time, and how we learn to inhabit a life that has been irrevocably changed.
WHEN ABUSERS DIE: ON GRIEVING PEOPLE WHO WERE ALSO WOUNDS
A reflective essay on the grief that can surface when someone who harmed, controlled, abandoned or failed us dies, and on what remains unresolved when death ends the person but not the impact of what happened.
WHAT HEALING REALLY LOOKS LIKE: THE UNSEEN, UNSPOKEN JOURNEY OF GRIEF AND REPAIR
A reflective essay on the unseen work of healing: grief, the body, secondary losses, identity, joy, and the social conditions that shape how we recover. What Healing Really Looks Like explores what healing asks of us, what we can mistake for repair, and how we learn to live differently with what has happened.