Sankofa Counseling, LLC

08/06/2025

My lazy and yet adorable staff…

07/30/2025

https://www.facebook.com/share/r/167oSrww4s/?mibextid=wwXIfr THANKS !

07/27/2025

I’ve got a secret! Wanna hear it?

https://youtube.com/shorts/Ze0nJGBzwxQ?si=YL002UnUbeOY_YFH

07/15/2025

Good words!

Unboxing our hearts, one joke at a time! (Thanks, Maz Jobrani!😘)

07/13/2025

IYK? YK.

Monkey monkey underpants

07/10/2025

Hey everybody! I have now officially launched the COACHING branch of my Counseling practice!

The premise is to "unbox" our thinking, refuse "should, have to and must" and instead make life-giving, conscious, and creative choices over every aspect of our lives.

Re-Think and Re-Create!

I will be making all of the material accessible at various levels from free resources to inexpensive online courses, to paid coaching groups to premium, exclusive coaching opportunities.

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Sankofa Unboxed Coaching, (which for reasons unknown will NOT come up as a tag -- please look the page up,) offers topic-specific and time-limited coaching opportunities.

I'm starting with "Unboxing Relationships." This is a 6-week program that will take participants, (couples, thruples, poly constellations or what have you,) through:

✨Unboxing Should, Have To, Must
✨Unboxing Myths, Fairytales and Assumptions
✨Unboxing Emotions (and using them well)
✨Unboxing Defenses
✨Unboxing Conflicts

In session 6 we pull ALL of the exercises we did together in one place and spell out that relationship's blueprint for their unique "New Cloud 9." The program is loaded with resources including videos, blogs, exercises and a flipbook that can be downloaded as a .PDF for future reference.

🫶🫶🫶WHAT I'M ASKING OF YOU: 🫶🫶🫶

* I'll be sending out invitations to like the page. Please do.

* I've posted the first 10 "3am Thoughts" short reels (and 2 reels of funny outtakes) on YouTube and Instagram. The YouTube link is below. Please watch some, and if you like them, please share them with friends! https://youtu.be/ysjbuEefj-c?si=Oj5K3ERcdjP1kiAv

* If you have thoughts, ideas, if you notice some digital spinach in between my teeth, (errors and so forth,) please PM me and let me know!

* If you know of people who could benefit from the program, or, therapists and other mental health professionals who work with relationships and want to give their clients a boost to help them do their work even better, please share this link to my

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"Building Your New Cloud 9 (And the 4 'divorces' that can get you there!'" https://www.sankofaunboxed.com/cloudnine

Thanks so much. I appreciate your help in launching what I hope will be helpful to a whole lot of people!

06/19/2025

“This designation offers millions of Americans, of all backgrounds, the opportunity to pause, reflect, and celebrate together, the progress toward unity. Juneteenth is a day for all of us. Freedom is a shared American value and the story of emancipation belongs to all of us.”

https://www.juneteenth.com/

Juneteenth is for all of us, but maybe not the way you think.

Upholding the value of freedom, respect and celebration of all is important for all of us. And, Juneteenth holds a very important lesson, especially for those who hold power.

The enslaved in Texas were not informed of their freedom until TWO YEARS AFTER the Emancipation Proclamation.

TWO.
YEARS.

Those in power chose to just keep going on as if nothing had changed, sustaining their lifestyles on the literal backs of other human beings, illegally held in bo***ge.

It’s easy to think, “I would NEVER have done that!”

As we are experiencing right now, (before they become “history,”) the events of our lives are much more complicated and confusing in real time.

One thing that is not complicated is the truth that all of us human folk have the ability to do great harm. Yes, given just the wrong set of circumstances, it COULD have been you.

If we are serious about unpholding the value of “liberty and justice for all,” we will need to UNBOX our thinking.

These principles will only be delivered if we live in state of fierce self examination and candor, looking at ALL of what is true both inside and outside of ourselves.

So yes, Happy Juneteenth! Take in the full history, and let it guide our steps forward in healthy ways!

06/06/2025

Love this! “The world doesn’t always understand, but there are places, and people, and moments that do.”

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My heart honestly shattered. My son and I worked on this little woodland scene for like a whole week, every evening after school, when he was already half-asleep but still wouldn’t stop until he got the moss just right or found the perfect spot for the owl.
He came up with the whole idea himself. Said, “Dad, it’s like a secret home inside the forest.” He sculpted the hedgehog, placed the tiny pinecones, carved that little log with his hands (well, mostly supervised, but still). He poured everything into it.
And then he came home, eyes red, holding his piece like it was broken glass. “I spent a lot of time sculpting, but no one appreciated it,” he said. The other kids laughed. Even the teacher didn’t say a word. Just moved on.
I wanted to march into that school and tell them all, LOOK. LOOK AT THIS. THIS IS ART. But instead, I just hugged him and said, “You know what? Let’s show it to people who do appreciate creativity.”
So we posted it in my little craft store on the Tedooo app, I’ve been selling there for a bit, but this was his first piece. And you wouldn’t believe what happened. People started commenting. Encouraging. One guy from Oregon asked if my son does commissions. Another from the UK said it reminded them of their childhood forest.
I didn’t let him sell it, of course. This one stays with us forever. But now he walks a little taller. Because someone did see the magic.
If you’ve got a kid who creates things, protect that spark with everything you've got. This world doesn’t always understand, but there are places, and people, and moments that do.