Reflections in Real Time
There’s a shift happening.
You can feel it, can’t you?
Something in you knows:
We weren’t meant to fight forever.
We were meant to create.
To raise a generation that doesn’t inherit our patterns of fear, control, and disconnection.
More and more of us are moving beyond “anti-racism”—
not because...
A white mother came to me recently with tears in her eyes and truth on her heart.
Her teen had said something that stopped her in her tracks:
“Where do I go with my tears when you’re having feelings about the adoption?”
That sentence echoed in her mind like a bell she couldn’t un-ring. Her child ...
Parenting is hard. Transracial parenting? It’s a whole different level of navigating love, loss, and learning. White Awake Parenting was born out of my own humbling, heartbreaking, and ultimately life-expanding experience of raising Black children in a world that wasn’t built for them—and of waking ...
When my beautiful, Black children came to me through adoption, I thought love was enough. But very quickly, I realized it wasn’t. Not in a country still deeply scarred by racism, systemic injustice, and unequal power.
If we white parents don’t do the work — if we don’t face our own whiteness, unlea...