Live a life worth writing about!
Vision & Values
I CREATED A COMPANY that brings women together with the understanding that place matters and that healing and regeneration happens when women gather in the service of other women.
I CREATED A COMPANY that curates transformational travel experiences utilizing writing and other healing arts and in the broad field of personal development.
I CREATED A COMPANY that honors my need to be in the presence of other women and my need for regeneration and healing.
I CREATED A COMPANY with the deep knowing that sometimes women need to step out of their lives and enter into a place where they can simply be--without the masks.
CULTURE & NATURE.
Experiences that introduce you to the beauty of the local culture and the magnificence of the natural world.
CONNECTION & TRANSFORMATION.
Experiences that encourage connection and personal transformation. Expect to expand and to grow.
the visionary behind the experience…
I am a writer and published author. In my first book, The Constant Sweetness Within, a collection of personal essays, poetry and photography, I share my story of courage and resilience. The process of writing has allowed me to own and share my truth opening a pathway of healing for others. It is in this spirit that I was called to do this work, to share my map with other women. I have 25 years of experience teaching writing as a college English professor. Now, I am using my experience to curate spaces for other women to write and share their stories. I am also a teacher certified by the Trauma Resource Institute in the Community Resiliency Model®--a skill-based model focused on building resiliency in the nervous system, which aids individuals and communities in coming back to center in times of distress and trauma promoting an overall sense well-being. I am a trained community organizer, and I recently earned a Permaculture Design Certification. Bringing people together for a purpose is my superpower. The larger purpose, I believe, is to help us all see ourselves in the other, the key to a compassionate and interdependent way of living.
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FOUNDERwriter/travel curator/retreat host/ mother/educator/activist/seeker/ entrepreneur/co-creator in this thing called life.
This book project—my foray into my truest self—started in 2010, the year my body started to physically respond to the weakened emotional state I had been in for many years before, maybe my entire life. This was two years after my last child of three was born.
My first book is a collection of personal essays, poetry and photography. It is a multi-layered artistic project that captures my journey as a Black woman navigating the intersections of race, gender, marital status and spirituality.
Although the stories I tell often involve others, this book is not about them. It is about me and my responses to those experiences. This book is not meant to provoke or incite. It is meant to allow you a peek into the soul of another. If that evokes a response, I hope you respond by finding your own truth and telling your story.
“As I write in this moment, I see all that I have become from my willingness to explore and express myself—use my words. My words on the page are the old iterations. The next iteration is unfolding.”
~preface The Constant Sweetness Within