About Us – Grief + Joy

About Us

Bringing Flowers is a

living offering –

a practice in motion, not a fixed product.

We, Thea and Akilah,

welcome you.

Between Us,

we bring a combined body of work that spans therapeutic, educational, and community-based practices: Thea as a therapist, educator, and facilitator focused on decolonial mental health, joy centrism, and spiritual care through MarleyAyo, and Akilah as a pioneering leader in intergenerational healing, deschooling, self-directed leadership, and grief work through Raising Free People Network.

We hold decades of work in various aspects of change management, and we know that none of that work stays still. It grows and contracts as we do. Together, we are cultivating a space where grief and joy are not separated, where spiritual and emotional labor are honored, and where community care meets personal responsibility. What you’ll find here will change as we do

— because our lives, our people, and the world we’re part of are always shifting.

Akilah

Thea

As two Black women deeply committed
to personal and collective transformation,

we bring forward our bodies of work by Bringing Flowers.

This is a place where we gather what we are learning, unlearning, and remembering, and offer it as an invitation to engage with grief, joy, and the spaces between them.

Whether you are tending personal loss, navigating collective grief in your family or workplace, or looking to bring deeper grief and joy literacy into your organization or classroom, we offer ways to move through that work together. This is relational work — alive and responsive. It moves with us, with you, and with the times we’re in. And we welcome you to move through it alongside us.