On WittedRoots.com, the Personal Essays category will highlight vulnerable personal reflections submitted by millennial women of color related to their mental health + emotional wellness experiences.
How Being Stuck In A Pandemic Changed My Life
The Pandemic Changed My Life The air is still, the streets are empty, but life behind walls has been everything but calm. Life and everything as we know it changed, and now the new task that we face is adaptation….
The Best Lessons Learned In Life During The Pandemic
In An Instant, Everything Changed On March 6, 2020, Jamaica announced its first case of COVID-19, the mysterious virus that has been — and still is — wreaking biological havoc all over the world. Since then, the ticking of the metronome of time and…
COVID-19 Pandemic Ruined These 5 Things For Me
Everyone declared that 2020 would be their year. My vision board is still hoisted in my room with all my plans staring at me mockingly. I probably won’t be able to complete any of the things I set out to…
5 Lessons The Covid-19 Pandemic Taught Me
It has been four months since the first COVID-19 case was recorded in Jamaica. I cannot believe it’s only been 4 months. In college, four months flew by and in no time I had exams to stress over. It seems…
My Ex-Boyfriend Is A Sexual Predator
I write this fresh off the heels of a heated exchange I had with a supposed friend. And a day after what I could describe as the most triggering hours on my Twitter. Yesterday, I received a DM from a…
Just A Little Crush…Or Is It?: Lessons On Love From An Unlikely Source
Being in a committed relationship for almost half a decade does something to you. While you’ve been stuck in your proverbial love bubble, you don’t even notice how much the dating game is changing. And why should you? You’ve found…
How To Let Go Of A Relationship? He Already Let Go of You
I messaged this guy that I really cared about to find out why he had been mad at me for the past couple days. Like a normal person, I had asked him what was wrong and his response to my…
How To Be Successful In Graduate School?
My first go around the collegiate pool was not easy by any means. The late nights and homesickness. The sudden Black consciousness that made me simultaneously enlightened and irate as I learned more and more about our history. Pair that…
Figuring My Own Way Of “Being Woman”
Recently married and fresh out of graduate school, I was offered my first contract as an academic. I was a university lecturer, a dream come true after years of labor and at times failure. The first day of the semester…
The Choice To Not Attend My Ph.D. Graduation Ceremony
By the time you read this, the day that was supposed to mark the occasion during which I would be conferred with my Ph.D. in front of a crowd of well-wishers at The University of Sheffield would have passed. My…