A Welcome Letter to You Dear Sister, There is a moment in every woman’s life when the script stops working. You can still recite the lines, daughter, mother, wife, auntie, the strong one, the helper, the one who carries everything. You can still hit your marks. But beneath the performance, a quieter voice is asking a question you’ve been avoiding for a long time: “Outside of all of this — who am I?” That question is the reason Daughters of Themselves exists. And if you’ve found your way here, something in you already knew it was time. This Is Not Branding. This Is a Reclamation. When we named this thing, we didn’t reach for what was catchy. We reached for what was true. A Daughter of Herself is a woman tracing her lineage back to her own soul, not the roles she was given, not the relationships she was told to have, not the title society pinned on her before she could read. She is her own origin. Her own sacred line. Her own source. This isn’t a brand. It’s a philosophy. It’s a movement. It’s the re-imagining of the woman. The Weight You Carry Was Not Always Yours Our grandmothers and mothers were grooming us up for somebody, for some day. They were not, by and large, grooming us for ourselves. That wasn’t malice, that was the inheritance they were handed, and they passed down what they knew. So we learned, very young, how to be useful before we learned how to be. We learned the title woman often shows up wrapped in another word: pain. Quietly, more of our actual selves got snatched away in the process. That is the loop this community exists to break. You Don’t Actually Know What Home Feels Like Yet When we ask women, “Outside of the roles you carry, who are you?” — we are not being clever. We are asking because most of us cannot answer. Including us, once upon a time. The work is to come home. Your intuition does not sharpen in a crowded room. Your discernment does not grow stronger when you are constantly performing. You meet yourself in the quiet, and then you stop wanting to leave.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DWXjOsSEcjv/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA== This interview was the catalyst that birthed "Daughters of Themsleves" How did we get here? This interview was such an eye opening discussion. We had to go further, dive deeper and go down the rabbit hole of how women are showing up. Why have we taken on the weight of others and how to start the process of asking yourself as a woman- the hardest questions to undertstand why we have taken on roles that were never designed for us in the first place.

Round 2 with Crystal Johnson / @themasterofembodiedtruth and y'all — the room was everything tonight. The Women Who Carry Everything: Putting Down What Isn't Yours hit different the second time around. Deeper. Freer. More real. If you missed it, the replay is coming. Stay close. And if you were there, sit with what came up for you. Don't rush past it. That stirring you feel? That's yours. Honor it. The weight was never yours to begin with. And you are allowed to put it down. 🌿 Drop a 🌿 line below if something shifted for you tonight. ---