Welcome to Black Girl Healing.
This is a place for those of us who are learning how to live after survival. For those shedding the armor they were forced to wear, and letting themselves be soft again. This is for anyone who’s ever carried too much, loved too hard, fought too long and finally is learning to carry, love, and fight for themselves.
Black Girl Healing is a living archive of what it means to heal. Not perfectly, not quietly, but honestly. Here you’ll find essays, poems, stories, and reflections from the messy middle, where the real movement happens.
We don’t rush healing here. We honor it. We listen to it. We let it remake us.
Whoever you are, wherever you come from or if you’re just craving a space where wholeness is possible, you are welcome.
Let’s heal out loud.
About Me
I’m Omolara, a former pediatrician for 20 years and currently the co-founder of a healthcare practice serving low-income Black & brown communities in NYC. But that is what I do. I am a writer, dreamer, healer and mama of 2
I created Black Girl Healing because I needed somewhere to lay down the weight of pretending. I needed somewhere to tell the truth about pain, about growth, and the unwieldy beauty of starting over.
Through poetry, essays, and telling our stories, I explore what it means to reclaim your voice after loss, burnout, heartbreak, and the quiet violence of being unseen.
I believe healing is not a destination. It’s a lifelong conversation with yourself.
And I’m honored to have you in this conversation with me.
Why subscribe to this newsletter?
When you subscribe, you’ll get:
Poetry and essays about healing, growth, and transformation.
The Pivot newsletters are clear reflections and lessons for anyone navigating their own life pivots with courage and grace.
Personal reflections from my Healing Journal — the raw, intimate spaces I don't share anywhere else.
Reasons to become a paid subscriber
Paid subscribers help keep this space alive, authentic, and independent.
By becoming a paid subscriber, you’re investing in:
Deeper access: Full access to all Healing Journal posts and weekly Pivot newsletter posts.
Sustaining the work: Your support helps fund the time, heart, and care it takes to write and build this community.
Expanding the impact: Paid subscriptions make it possible for me to fund protected time to work on my 1st book for launching my career as a full-time writer
Honoring the labor: Writing about healing, especially from lived experience, is sacred work. Paid subscribers honor the emotional and creative labor behind every piece.
If you believe in slow healing, in powerful storytelling, in spaces where softness and strength can coexist, this is your invitation.
Your presence here already matters more than you know.
Words from Our Community
Here’s a small sample of what women have told me about this newsletter:
“I love your content and have been deeply influenced by your posts about self-care and giving yourself grace. Although I work adjacent to medicine, your insights have been incredibly impactful.“
So, what are you waiting for?
