🌱 As You Grow

Picture Book · Ages 5–10

As You Grow is a lyrical, affirming picture book that walks children through the emotional and spiritual terrain of becoming—encouraging them to trust their feelings, protect their energy, and celebrate their sacred place in the world. Framed as a poetic guide, the story gently reminds young readers that growth doesn’t always look like perfection—it looks like truth, resilience, and deep self-love. Through rich metaphors and soul-grounding language, As You Grow empowers children, especially Black and Brown youth, to honor their light even in a world that may not always reflect it back. This book is a hug for the child healing within us all—and a mirror for the children learning to bloom.

A Journey from Root to Bloom—and Beyond

The Grow series is a soulfully crafted body of work chronicling the emotional, spiritual, and generational journey of a young Black girl discovering her voice, worth, and power in a world that often tries to shrink her. It begins with As You Grow, a poetic guide for children reclaiming their joy and intuition. It continues in As You’ve Grown, a raw and resonant young adult novel that traces the intensity of adolescence, survival, and self-definition from fifth grade to high school graduation.

Together, these stories prepare the ground for the final book: Grown, a powerful memoir that unpacks the author's own journey of healing, independence, and self-realization in the years after leaving home.

From childhood to college and beyond, the Grow series is a living archive of what it means to become whole. It’s a call to reflect, release, and rise.

🍂 As You’ve Grown

Young Adult Memoir-Inspired Fiction · Ages 13+

As You’ve Grown follows Nola—a smart, sensitive, and complex Black girl—as she navigates the turbulence of middle and high school within a predominantly white school district, all while surviving cycles of instability, parentification, and emotional neglect at home. Told with raw honesty and poetic warmth, this coming-of-age story captures the ache of betrayal and the thrill of self-discovery. From friendship frays and formal dances to secret grief and moments of spiritual awakening, Nola’s voice is magnetic—resilient in the face of heartbreak, but always reaching for something higher. This book is a tribute to the ones who raised themselves while trying to save everyone else. It’s the story of being othered—and still choosing to rise.

🌼 The “Grow” Series

12:21:Might Delete Later

A project I’ve been birthing quietly, piece by piece.

It’s a spiritual, semi-surreal dramedy about a girl named Sola — a 25-year-old artist, survivor, and reluctant mystic — who’s navigating trauma, family ghosts (literal and emotional), and a spiritual gift she never asked for but maybe always carried.

This isn’t just a show. It’s a mirror. A map. A way to tell the truth in a world that rewards silence.

Sola is layered: part me, part memory, part magic. She’s sarcastic and soft. She can sing spirits calm and paint prophecy without trying. And she records voice memos she might never send — confessions wrapped in timestamps like 12:21 — always hovering over the delete button. Sound familiar?

Through her, I’m exploring:

• what it means to outgrow people who never knew you

• how beauty can be a weapon and a healing

• how the most haunted places are sometimes our own childhood homes

• what healing might look like when the pain still lives down the hall

This project is the lovechild of Insecure, The Handmaid’s Tale, and The Proud Family — with spirits whispering through murals and secrets hiding in Tupperware.

I’m building it slow. Sacred. Brick by brick.

If it finds you, it’s for you.
If you see yourself in it — let me know. We’re not supposed to do this healing thing alone.

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