Living Waters

Welcome to Living Waters

A travel journal, a healing diary and a sacred space to reflect on the flow and evolution of life.

Here, I write from the road — weaving insight with movement, ritual, and the wisdom that comes when we slow down. Whether it’s a massage in the mountains, a bowl of fruit in the sun, or a truth rising up while walking solo in a new city — this is where it all lives.

These posts are love notes from the journey — with travel as both literal path and living metaphor. Movement — toward presence, becoming, home, and the possibility of collective transformation through individual well-being.

I carry with me years of work rooted in community, advocacy, and collective care. As I evolve, that work evolves too—becoming more embodied, more personal, and more spiritually grounded.

As a Black woman, my presence in rest, in reflection, and in reclamation is not separate from that work—it is the work. This blog is a space where I let my evolution speak. Where healing is both personal and political. Where the everyday becomes sacred, and the sacred becomes a guide toward a more just, more whole world.

I'm an intentional being, so I curated this written experience to take you on a journey from the suffocating space between who I became to succeed and who I actually am. The photos used are mine, and the personal storytelling is not a form of self-help or oversharing, but resonant space creation and community-building as a branch of collective healing.

Part 1: "Misalignment + Awakening”

The Altar of Achievement
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The Altar of Achievement

What happens when the very tools that helped you survive become the chains that bind you? When the altar you've been worshipping at demands more sacrifice than your soul can give?

This is the story of breaking up with achievement culture - of recognizing that excellence became my false god and performance became my prison. The moment I realized that what got me here wouldn't get me where I needed to go, and the sacred act of letting it all go.

Laying down false idols and picking up freedom.

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Burnout as Portal
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Burnout as Portal

What happens when your body and mind conspire to save you from yourself? When the breakdown you've been taught to fear becomes the breakthrough you didn't know you needed?

This is the story of burnout as portal - not failure, but awakening. Of discovering that sometimes our souls open doorways we refuse to walk through any other way. The moment I stopped running from the collapse and started listening to what it was trying to tell me.

When breakdown becomes your breakthrough.

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Internal Chaos.                External Success.
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Internal Chaos. External Success.

What happens when everything looks perfect on paper but feels like death on the inside? When you've "made it" by every external measure but wake up each day feeling like you're slowly disappearing?

This is the story of that suffocating space between who I became to succeed and who I actually am. Of realizing that the very systems rewarding me were also erasing me. Of discovering that sometimes the most successful-looking life can be the most soul-crushing lonely road.

The first crack in the foundation of everything I thought I wanted.

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