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...
Dismantling Whiteness Without Dismantling My Presence
The other night, my 13-year-old daughter said something that stopped me cold:
“Where am I supposed to go with my feelings?”
She wasn’t just asking a question.
She was naming a truth.
She was letting me know that in a home where I try so ha...
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...