Deep Roots Family

04/24/2026

You are a child of God. He adopts you into his family when you call to him and accept him.

04/23/2026

If you see a pattern in your own relationship of unhealthy arguing and want to find a way out of the loop, I can help you.
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04/21/2026

This makes me sick! 🤢 Some people have a right to guns, but many do not. We need to assure that we have some screening of people with past histories of violent crimes and mental illness.

We are heartbroken by the mass shooting in Shreveport, Louisiana, that took the lives of eight children and injured their mothers. Our thoughts are with their loved ones and the entire community as they grieve this unimaginable loss.

This devastating act of family violence is not an isolated incident. It is a stark reminder that moments of separation can be especially dangerous for victims of domestic violence, and their families, increasing the risk of severe or lethal harm.

It is also a call to action. We must end the surge of gun violence in our communities. Gun violence is the leading cause of death for children in the United States, and the presence of a firearm significantly increases the risk that domestic violence will turn deadly.

We stand with the Shreveport community and with all those impacted by violence, and we remain committed to advancing solutions that help keep families safe.

If you are concerned about your safety or someone else’s, you are not alone.

You can contact the National Domestic Violence Hotline for confidential support, safety planning, and resources:
☎️ 1-800-799-7233
💬 Text START to 88788

Contact A Call for Change Helpline if you are seeking to change how you treat your partner, or are worried about someone you know who is harming their partner:
☎️ 1-877-898-3411

04/21/2026

I really would love to know!!
I mean, if life were so good before you got married, why didn’t you stay single?
Why put down the person you chose to love and care for?
Why question her motives?
Why throw things, push, and punch her?
Why stop her from freedom to choose what to buy? Who to talk to? And to question herself?

Is it because you are selfish? Entitled? Are more of a child than a man? Did you not understand what being a partner meant? Do you not understand what it means to love?

04/21/2026

Femicide is at an all time high! Such tragic losses. I post this to say that domestic violence does not discriminate. All education and socioeconomic levels are impacted. This is about men loosing control and not getting whatever it is they want.

You matter!

In just three weeks, four Black women were shot and killed in senseless acts of domestic violence. They were leaders, healers, and pillars of their communities.

Vice Mayor Nancy Metayer Bowen was a trailblazer: the first Black and Haitian American woman elected as a Coral Springs Commissioner.

Dr. Cerina Fairfax was a beloved and accomplished dentist, running her own thriving family dental practice in Fairfax, Virginia. She was a devoted mother of two, and once built a zip line for her kids.

Barbara Deer was widely known for her work as a speech pathologist with Chicago Public Schools. Barbara had planned an anti-violence walk in Garfield Park, scheduled for the day after she was gunned down. Her sorority sisters joined neighbors and friends on the walk, celebrating her life and legacy.

Pastor Tammy McCollum was a minister at The Well Worship Center in Charlotte, North Carolina. Her congregation described her as “full of light”, who loved serving her community and her church.

Nancy, Cerina, Barbara, Tammy, and countless Black women are victims of a crisis that America has too often ignored.

When an abusive partner has access to a gun, a victim is five times more likely to be killed. And for Black women, the risk is even more severe—disproportionately impacted by domestic violence and more likely to be killed by an intimate partner than women of other races.

We cannot accept a world where access to a gun turns abuse into a death sentence, and a world where Black women continue to bear the brunt of this violence.

We owe each of these women action, and we owe it now.

04/18/2026

And this happened the next day. Coercive control, litigious abuse are all a part of domestic violence. The person may never hit you, but they wield a weapon with their words and threats to get you to question yourself and perceive things as your fault.

Domestic violence is real! It is happening in every neighborhood and socioeconomic background. You are not crazy! Love should NOT hurt.

Absolutely horrific: It’s being called a ‘messy divorce’ -it’s not. Cerina left him and Justin Fairfax chose to murder her rather than walk away. It’s coercive control and domestic violence.

Fairfax repeatedly shot Cerina in the basement of their Annandale home just after midnight before turning the gun on himself, according to police.

The couple’s two teenage children were inside the home at the time of the murder-suicide. Their son was the one who called 911 to report the shootings, cops said.

Also Fairfax murdered Cerina just months after police responded to the family’s home back in January after Fairfax falsely accused his wife of assaulting him 🤬

Investigators later determined he’d LIED after reviewing footage from multiple cameras that the wife had set up inside the home.

In addition at least two women had publicly accused him of sexually assaulting them in 2000 and 2004, according to the California Post.

Vanessa Tyson, an associate professor at Scripps College and fellow at Stanford University, accused Fairfax of ra**ng her at a hotel during the 2004 Democratic National Convention in Boston.

Then a second woman, Meredith Watson, came forward to claim Fairfax r***d her in a “premeditated and aggressive” attack in 2000 while they were both at Duke.

He maintained the sexual encounters were both consensual and refused to resign.

Cerina filed for divorce in July 2025.
Here’s your reminder - Separation and coercive control are high risk factors for serious harm and femicide 🚩🚩

04/18/2026

And here is another tragic example of family violence. We passed the police car as they raced to the scene Wednesday evening. Sadly, this is the second murder in this neighborhood. Another woman was stabbed to death by her husband in 2004. Also during the course of divorce.

If you are divorcing someone who is mentally struggling to begin with, take great precautions and plan for your safety when you leave.

Go to my Linktree in my bio to get my free Planning Guide, Prayers for Women in Destructive Marriages as well as other free resources.
You can also purchase my: Breaking a Trauma Bond Workbook.

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