Writing has always been my refuge. My words—through journals, poems, and stories—have long been the place where I feel safest and most understood. Sometimes that’s a blessing… and sometimes it means confronting emotions I’m not always ready to revisit. Truthfully, I already felt like I had already been carrying enough…...more than enough! Yet after completing a successful blog series Rising Through the Fire , performing “They Saw Ashes…We Saw Wings” during Black History Mont

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