Connectfulness

03/27/2026

Friends, there is much weight we’re all experiencing. None of us need carry it alone.

Join us. Friday March 27th.

Geography of Grief is gathering again, online and free.

Preregister for link to join.

03/25/2026

Colleagues, if you’re with couples, my dear friend and colleague Akilah Riley-Richardson’s new book Marginalized Couples in Therapy, published by Norton, offers what conventional models have long failed to: a framework built from and for the lived experiences of clients navigating intimacy under systemic oppression. Her book launch workshop, tomorrow, March 26th comes with a free copy of the book and will help you move couples from habits of survival to true liberation.

Register to join live or for a replay at
https://go.therapywisdom.com/t?orid=13181&opid=185

03/14/2026

I am excited to share that this July 19-24 I’ll be assisting Juliane Taylor Shore at Omega Institute for an Undoing Aloneness retreat for Therapists. We will experientially explore our own internal relationships with power, self, not-knowing, and “of-courseness,” and how those might be quietly shaping our clinical work.

As both a dear friend and mentor, Jules has shaped me in ways that are hard to put simply. Her work,The STAIR Method in particular, has helped me deepen trust in my own experience, listen to my system, and turn toward what gets activated within rather than turn away from it. To develop real presence, and the courage and skill to show up with it.

Join us.

03/06/2026

I’m was turned onto this beautiful book by Dr. Rima Vesely-Flad, by Liz Bucar (check out her post!). As I read further and further in I find it’s speaking so deeply and articulately to the practice of metabolizing pain with skill and for liberatory growth.

I’m forever a nerd, I learn best in community and I find myself seeking a few folks who might be interested in joining me in a read/discuss/practice space late April. Message me if that’s you.

03/05/2026

I’ve been angry for months.

03/03/2026

So excited to celebrate Akilah Riley-Richardson, MSW, CCTP's new book! 🎉 Marginalized Couples in Therapy: Interventions for Healing from Systemic Trauma is finally here. And it's the resource so many clinicians have been waiting for.

Akilah tackles what traditional couples therapy often misses: the real, compounding weight of systemic oppression on BIPOC and LGBTQIA+ relationships. Through her BIOME and PRIDE models, she gives therapists a genuinely inclusive framework rooted in clients' lived experience.

If you work with couples, or know someone who does, grab the book and join the book launch workshop (book copy included).

Couldn't be prouder of you, Akilah! 👏

Click through to the photos for links to learn more about the book and book launch workshop.

02/24/2026

Containers.

You'd think with all the garbage we overflow we'd have enough containers, but it seems we don't know where to put our grief.

And grief needs to be contained so it can be felt, known, metabolized. Grief holds what matters, it orients us.

As much as we avoid it, we're lost without it.

Grief walks us home.

Grief orients us to one another and reacquaints us with ourselves.

Grief is the way we move onwards.

02/20/2026

In today's Geography of Grief gathering we leaned into song as a container to support our turning towards grief, in all the ways it shows up. All the ways. The grief, the rage, the tenderness, the fear, the ache. The discomfort. A container to help us practice being with it, withnessing all that emerges. For it's all love. Love for what matters. Love for what's been lost. Love for what must be protected.

Stay tuned for future gatherings.

02/15/2026

This episode of Prentis Hemphill's Becoming the People podcast with Tarana Burke hits deep and true. Have a listen.

Activist, advocate, author, and co-founder of the me too movement, Tarana Burke joins Prentis for this episode. Tarana is sharing the portals that me too has opened and made possible in our culture, her framework on the solvability of sexual viole...

02/13/2026

The world is alot. So much grief and injustice. So much to witness and metabolize. And the overwhelm of it, and still needing to keep going.

It's easy to shut down, to go numb, to lose track of what we feel. Sometimes we can't tell if we're protecting ourselves or abandoning something important.

This space is an invitation to come back to yourself. Not to figure things out. To be in relationship with what's emerging from within. To be present with your emerging noticings.

Being with and meeting discomfort is part of that. Especially discomfort that asks us to look inward. To notice what we've taken for granted. To question what we've been taught to trust. To feel into what sits okay and what doesn't.

A reckoning that deeply matters. That's rooted in healing, inside the messes. That reorients us to the gravity of this moment.

A gravity that needs to be felt and witnessed and experienced. When we let ourselves feel it, it shows us where we are.

And maybe, guides us where we go next…

This is an invitation to gather.
Without agenda or performance.

Just us sweet humans, gathering together in community, in real time, bringing what we're carrying.

Grief. Anger. Tenderness. Uncertainty. A desire to feel less alone.

Our next Geography of Grief gathering is on Thursday, February 19th from 12:30-1:30p eastern, online & free. Please preregister to join us.

The world is alot. So much grief and injustice. So much to witness and metabolize. And the overwhelm of it, and still needing to keep going. It's easy to shut down, to go numb, to lose track of what we feel. Sometimes we can't tell if we're protecting ourselves or abandoning something important. Thi...

02/12/2026