In 2023, I started a personal journey of unearthing trauma that had been building up for almost two decades. It wasn’t something I had planned to do - it was something I recognized I had to do to avoid succumbing to a version of myself I would not be proud of or like.

What started as a desperate need to understand why I could barely breathe in spaces I used to - became the domino effect of revelations within myself and my family unit of three.

If I am being honest with myself and any reader, I need to admit that this journey has brought many painful moments, including a lot of retreating, to better recognize from the outside, the chaotic, emotional turmoil of the world I had been trying so hard to get out from under.

This new year, 2026, I am walking forward in a new way.

The word “Sovereign” is often used in relation to a country or a monarchy. Growing up under Pentecostal and evangelical influence, I understood it to mean that the Christian God is the ultimate authority in all things. I understood it to mean that I was powerless against anything without the spiritual and physical authority figures in control.

This year, I chose Sovereign as a personal true north, understanding that I do not need to continue carrying old ways of being, suffering, or limitations.

I am the sovereign authority over my own heart, mind and soul.
I am the co-sovereign authority over my own relationship and family.
I am sovereign over my life.
I am not powerless in any of these aspects, and I am done ceding my life and its expansiveness to constructs that refuse to allow space for others and their voices.

Going against what I was raised to do,
Here I go into 2026.

Onwards,