Tag: ancestry
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My great great grandmother’s trauma blanket
(Journal entry) My trauma is being triggered, subconsciously by male clients maybe because I was assaulted by a male. My daughter is my whole world and I need to be here for her. I was thinking about the concept of suicide and the “bravery” it must take to knowingly know your expiration date. The “heroism”…
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African Ancestry
I was gifted an African Ancestry DNA kit for my birthday from my partner, sooo excited. From the moment I swabbed my mouth and happily walked to the post office to drop off the envelope I had been thinking. Thinking, I’ve been thinking years before about who my ancestors were/are. What that information means to…
