About The Makings of You Foundation

The Makings of You Foundation supports Black women in healing intergenerational trauma and reclaiming lives rooted in wellness, purpose, love, and joy.

Our work is grounded in a simple truth: what we carry — emotionally, spiritually, and historically — shapes not only our lives, but the generations that follow.

We create gentle, culturally rooted spaces where women can lay down what was never meant to be carried alone and reconnect with safety, self-trust, and joy.

What Is Soul Therapy™?

Soul Therapy™ is rooted in culturally grounded healing practices, somatic awareness, and community connection.

This work is grounded in the historical resilience of Black women — including the role faith and spirituality have played in our survival.

Soul Therapy™ is a healing‑centered workshop created specifically for Black women navigating the emotional, physical, and spiritual impact of intergenerational trauma.

This program recognizes that trauma does not live only in the mind
it is carried in the body, nervous system, spirit, and inherited stories.

Through culturally grounded practices, education, and community, participants are invited into a space of restoration, reflection, and reconnection.

Why This Program Matters

While there are wellness and mental health offerings available, Soul Therapy™ is one of the few — and in Illinois, the only — programs centrally focused on the holistic healing of intergenerational trauma for Black women through a culturally grounded, mind–body–spirit framework.

This is not race‑neutral healing. It is intentional, relational, and culturally rooted.

What We Offer

  • Healing Circles
    4-week guided group experiences rooted in reflection, nervous-system awareness, storytelling, and sisterhood.

  • Community Workshops
    Single-session gatherings exploring wellness, spirituality, legacy, and holistic self-care.

  • Legacy & Purpose Coaching
    Support for women seeking to redefine identity beyond inherited pain and create new narratives.

All offerings are grounded in Soul Therapy™, our culturally rooted healing framework.

Our Invitation

This is a space to breathe.
To soften the armor.
To remember you are more than what you survived.

You are not just the keeper of scars —
you are the keeper of songs.

You belong here.