Description
Your grandmother's strength kept her alive. But you don't have to keep yourself in survival mode to honor her. This group is for Black women ready to release the armor, feel what's been held, and discover that rest isn't weakness—it's reclamation. Through somatic healing and depth processing, we'll unpack the inherited patterns keeping you hypervigilant, exhausted, and disconnected from yourself. You'll learn to honor your lineage while choosing your own path. Because you deserve to thrive, not just survive.
About This Group
You've spent your life being strong for everyone else. You show up, hold it together, and keep pushing even when you're exhausted, even when it hurts. You learned early that your feelings come second, that rest is selfish, that asking for help is weakness. And while this survival strategy may have protected you, it's also left you burnt out, disconnected from your body, and running on empty.
This group is for Black women who are ready to break the cycle.
From Survival to Sovereignty is a 6-week healing circle where you'll explore the inherited patterns that keep you in survival mode the "Strong Black Woman" schema, hypervigilance, chronic caretaking, and self-sacrifice. Through somatic healing, depth processing, and culturally affirming community, you'll learn to release what no longer serves you while honoring the strength that brought you here.
You'll discover that rest isn't weakness—it's reclamation. That feeling your emotions doesn't make you fragile—it makes you free. And that you can honor your ancestors while choosing a different path for yourself.
This Group Is For You If:
- You're exhausted from being the "strong one" and never letting anyone see you struggle
- You feel guilty when you rest, relax, or prioritize your own needs
- Your body is stuck in overdrive—anxious, tense, unable to truly relax
- You recognize patterns from your childhood or family playing out in your life
- You're navigating tension between cultural expectations and your personal desires
- You carry your mother's wounds, your grandmother's survival strategies, or your family's unspoken pain
- You're ready to feel safe in your own body and connect with yourself again
- You want healing that honors your identity as a Black woman without having to explain yourself
What We'll Focus On:
- Co-regulating:
- Regulating your nervous system and releasing survival activation stored in your body
- Somatic indigenous practices to discharge stress and tension
- Building capacity for rest, pleasure, ease, and safety
- Reconnecting with your body's wisdom and emotions
- Breathwork, grounding, and embodiment practices
Relational & Depth Processing:
- AEDP (Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy) work to process core emotions like grief, rage, longing, and joy
- Exploring childhood attachment patterns and family-of-origin messages
- Understanding intergenerational trauma transmission through a psychoanalytic lens
- Group witnessing, co-regulation, and practicing vulnerability in safe relationships
Cultural & Ancestral Integration:
- Understanding "strength" as a survival strategy, not a personal failure
- Honoring what your ancestors endured while choosing different paths forward
- Exploring cultural messages about worthiness, rest, femininity, and sacrifice
- Breaking harmful cycles without breaking connection to your heritage
- Reclaiming your sovereignty over your own story
What to Expect:
*This is a closed, cohort-based group limited to 10 Black Women. We meet weekly for 90 minutes over 6 weeks, creating a safe, culturally affirming container for deep healing work.
Each session includes:
*Somatic grounding and check-in circle
*Psychoeducation on nervous system regulation, attachment, trauma, or cultural schemas
*Experiential healing work (guided somatic practices, EMDR preparation, or relational processing)
*Group processing, sharing, and witnessing
*Integration and a practice to take with you into the week
Six Week Journey:
2/11: Weeks 1: Building safety, understanding your nervous system, and creating group trust
2/18: Weeks 2: Building safety, understanding your nervous system, and creating group trust
2/25: Weeks 3: Mapping inherited patterns from family, culture, and survival strategies
3/4: Weeks 4: Somatic release work and emotional processing (grief, anger, longing)
3/11: Weeks 5: Relational healing and practicing new patterns with the group
3/18: Weeks 6: Integration, rest as resistance, and honoring your sovereignty
This group combines talk therapy with body-based healing. You won't just understand your patterns intellectually—you'll release them somatically and experience new possibilities relationally.
About the Facilitator:
I'm Kemba Bloodworth-Bhattacharya, LCSW, and I specialize in trauma healing for Black women using EMDR, somatic experiencing, AEDP, and psychoanalytic approaches. I understand the unique weight of being a Black woman navigating a world that demands your strength while denying your humanity. My work centers cultural affirmation, intergenerational healing, and creating space where you don't have to explain yourself to be seen.
This group reflects my commitment to offering Black women healing that honors the fullness of who you are. Your brilliance, your pain, your resilience, and your right to rest.
Group Details:
Format: Virtual via secure telehealth platform
Duration: 6 weeks
Frequency: Weekly, 75-minute sessions
Day/Time: Thursdays, 6:45-8:00 PM EST
Investment: $60 per session
Next Cohort Starts: February 11th
How to Join:
To apply: Schedule a free 15-minute consultation to ensure this group is the right fit for you
Complete a brief intake to share your goals and what you're hoping to 360
Secure your spot with a deposit once accepted into the cohort
Early application is encouraged as spots fill quickly.
You Deserve This.
You've carried so much for so long. You've been strong, capable, and resilient—often at the cost of your own well-being. This group is your permission slip to put down the armor, feel what needs to be felt, and discover that you are worthy of rest, care, and healing.
Your ancestors survived so you could thrive. Let's honor them by choosing sovereignty.
Group Therapist
Kemba Bloodworth-Bhattacharya, LCSW, is a Black woman therapist in New York City specializing in therapy for high-achieving women and professionals experiencing emotional fatigue. She offers virtual EMDR, AEDP, and somatic therapy throughout New York State for individuals navigating code-switching, isolation, and trauma. Free 15-minute consultation.**
You've achieved everything you were supposed to. The degrees. The title. The salary that would've made your grandmother weep with pride. From the outside, your life looks like the dream.
So why do you feel this emptiness?
If you're exhausted from being "the strong one," care-giving, and or navigating code-switching, overwhelm and or emptiness while carrying your family's dreams and losing yourself—I see you.
You don't need another therapist who talks about childhood for years. You need someone who understands your anxiety isn't irrational—your nervous system is responding to real things. That your perfectionism kept you safe until it started destroying you. That hypervigilance and tension aren't character flaws—they're survival strategies your body learned.
Here's what's possible: You can be successful and at peace. You can rest without guilt. You can feel safe in your own body. You can center your needs while basking in great joy!
I'm a Black woman therapist specializing in trauma therapy for Black women, BIPOC, LGBTQIA and professionals throughout New York. Through EMDR, we release trauma your body has been holding that talk therapy alone can't reach. Through somatic experiencing, we address how stress lives physically. Through AEDP, we create real emotional breakthroughs instead of insights that don't change anything.
As a nurturing woman therapist who understands high-achievement culture from the inside, I offer what many clients have never experienced: you don't have to explain your context before being believed.
I'm a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) offering virtual therapy sessions throughout New York State.
You've been strong long enough. Let's help you feel safe.
