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What if everything we’ve been taught about Eve was only part of the story?

Reconsidering Eve: The Experience is an invitation to journey inward—a sacred exploration of self, spirit, and the stories that have shaped us. Rooted in the commitment to liberate the hearts and minds of Black women, this experience asks us to look again at the messages we’ve internalized about who we are, and where those messages came from.

For me, many of those narratives began with Eve—the “mother of all living.” Growing up, I heard sermons that blamed her for bringing sin into the world, framing her desire for knowledge as rebellion rather than divine curiosity. Over time, those teachings painted women as either victims or villains in God’s plan, never as co-creators of life, wisdom, or possibility.

This deeply shaped the way I related to the Divine. I saw God as neurotic and temperamental, ready to punish me at the slightest provocation. It also shaped how I related to myself—seeing myself through a lens of imperfection, evil, and excess. I lived with, and am still healing from, that distorted view. Recovery has required honest conversations about how what I had been taught fed into this negative self-image.

Those conversations—about who I am and how I connect with Eve and other women in Scripture—eventually gave birth to Reconsidering Eve: Towards a Deepened Consciousness in 2024. As I sat with the text, I realized something was amiss. I was not the sinner I had been told I was—none of us were. Not because we are perfect, but because the notion of our inherent unworthiness was built on lies meant to justify the oppression of Black women, who since the period of enslavement have been cast as mammies (asexual), jezebels (oversexed), or sapphires (angry and aggressive).

Writing and publishing that book was my invitation for readers to study alongside me, to arrive at their own conclusions, and to decide how they wanted to relate to the text. Though it may read as critique, it is truly an invitation to deepen your own knowing and spirituality.

As I shared the book, I realized readers like you needed something more to support this inner work. Reconsidering Eve is not only a call to read but to examine one’s own relationship with the Divine. I wanted to design a process that would help you explore faith with tenderness—a process that honors the ways faith has kept us grounded while also encouraging openness and vulnerability.

With this in mind, I invite you to join us for our upcoming Sacred Saturday’s Series – Reconsidering Eve: The Experience. Hosted by Aya Collective Publishing, these sessions are designed to take you deeper in your writing practice, while also giving you the space to fully Reconsider Eve. Our first session of this series kicks off Saturday, October 25 (other sessions: November 15 and December 20) at 8 a.m. CST (zoom). All you need is a journal, a computer, and something to keep you warm on these increasingly cooler days. Sign up here.

And now, you can pre-order your copy of this workbook and journal. Get your copies here.