The Dream is the truth.

-ZORA NEALE HURSTON

What IF your ANCESTORS are waiting for your healing & insistING on your joy?

What if the dream you’ve been TAUGHT to deny holds aN URGENT message from THEM?

What IF YOUR RESPONSE could travel backwards and forwards in time?

Listen Closer.

Life Stewardship & Ancestral Listening

Are you finding it difficult to connect with yourself or others?

Do you find yourself repeating or reliving patterns of hurt or harm?

Are you curious about how these patterns might be connected to unresolved stories you’ve inherited?

When we lock into patterns of emotional numbness, pain, anger, or self-abandonment, we might be holding our own unresolved traumas along with the unfinished stories we’ve inherited. Just as our grief, hurt, or rage can be shared, so can our healing and growth. It can feel scary or unsafe to try to work through these patterns alone.

With guidance and encouragement, we can sit with ourselves to feel and work our way through this territory. Some of the tools I use to support this journey include embodied practice, creative expression, visualization, and intentional dialogue. These modalities are designed to help us know ourselves more intimately, listen to what our lineages are asking through our bodies, and invite the patterns of connection that help us access relief, clarity, and the medicine we need to become curators of our lives.

Individual Support

  • Support with internal and relational conflict. Work through barriers to connection or challenges that might be keeping you from taking the next step in your journey towards alignment with your personal, relationship, or spiritual goals.

    Tools:

    • Embodiment

    • Visualization

    • Parts / Inner Worlds

    • Creative Expression

    • Intentional Dialogue

    Trained in Whole Person Coaching (2024)

    *I am not a licensed therapist or social worker.

Writing Workshops

  • A live craft and generative writing workshop series inspired by Lucille Clifton’s poems on aging, remembering, and mothering.

    This series encourages us to fine-tune our ancestral listening by observing how Lucille, through her poetry, models this process.

    This series will speak to those who want to work with and metabolize inherited hurt and trauma through writing. Great for both beginning and practiced writers.

    (Recordings will be made available)

gROUP Support

  • Group practice in holding interpersonal and group conflict. We start with relationship building, learning about our individual conflict styles and challenges, and practice generative conflict engagement tools with others in the space.

    Circles are maxed at 12 participants.

    Link to registration will appear here and my live calendar when cohort opens.‍ ‍

  • A weekly space where we engage in practice tools together to support our own mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual health so that we can parent in a way that feels meaningful, intentional, healing, and in alignment with our values and integrity.

    Questions we may explore:

    • What is causing my buttons to get pushed?

    • How can I better deal with inner/outer conflict and tension?

    • How can I address old harmful patterns in parenting that have existed within my family?

    • How do I support myself and my child/ren when mental/physical disability (mine or my child’s) cause additional challenges to our dynamic?

    Link to registration will appear here and my live calendar when offering opens.‍ ‍

  • What if anger is not your enemy? What if anger is carrying a message or piece of wisdom for you, that when addressed, might help you and your anger work together to deepen and heal relationships with yourself and others?

    This is a practice group that will experiment with different tools and strategies that can shift how we act or respond when sensations of anger or rage present themselves.

    This group will invite us to deepen our compassion for self and others while practicing healthy boundary setting and clear, intentional communication in ways that do not cause harm and can generate connection.

    National Anger Management Association Certified

    Link to registration will appear here and my live calendar when cohort opens.‍ ‍

    *I am not a licensed therapist or social worker.

Books and Journals for Sale

  • A journal for teens and inner teens.

  • [Release Spring 2026]

    This collection of poems and prose invite readers to witness the emotional, spiritual, and psychic costs of untended wounds on women and girls. Together, the braided narratives ask what unexplored forms of holding inherited trauma might invite intergenerational healing and closure. 

END OF LIFE STEWARDSHIP

  • Some questions you or your loved one in transition might be asking:

    • What about what feels unfinished?

    • What did I do with my life?

    • How can I celebrate and honor my life wins?

    • How do I get past unfinished conflict?

    • How do I release guilt/shame?

    I offer guidance for those facing the end of their lives in processing internal conflict, affirming life meaning and purpose, and arriving into acceptance.

    As an end of life steward, my goal is to create the conditions for beings to enter the spiritual world with less trauma wounds attached.

    Some of my offerings / tools include:

    • Spiritual and somatic coaching

    • Reiki and sound healing

    • Planning for end of life celebration / ceremony

    • Eulogy Writing (See Examples in Blog)

    I can offer resources for other logistical support (death certificates, eco-friendly burial/cremation, living will management, etc). I am an advocate for the care and safety of those in transition, which means I communicate with loved ones and care staff when standard care is overlooked.

    Graduate of Going with Grace’s Death Doula and End of Life Planner Program (2024)

    *I am not a licensed social worker or therapist.

coLLECTIVE rEPAIR AND cAPACITY bUILDING

  • Conflict can offer us opportunities to know ourselves more intimately as we work toward connecting with others we hold tensions with. These are moments that hold us at our edge and ask us to take a leap toward growth. We can use these opportunities to deepen our alignment with our values and desires. Within collective nervous systems, we can explore how individual growth is supported by collective practices towards connection, compassion, and alignment with the group’s purpose.

    I offer capacity building trainings tailored to your group’s needs that can:

    1. Prepare your group before conflict occurs,

    2. Prepare your group in addressing and moving through conflict after hurt or harm has already occurred.

    Contact me to schedule a free consultation.

Let’s Work Together

Rosa Giselle Cabrera (she/her) is a queer, Dominican single mama, raised in unceded Lenape land [Harlem] and rooted in unceded Ohlone territory [Oakland, CA]. She was born to a working-class migrant family who lived through dictatorship rule in Dominican Republic.

She founded Reclaiming Our Own Transcendence (RooT) in 2018 to deeply imagine and manifest responses to interpersonal harm and violence without engaging the punitive system of mass incarceration. RooT offers collective accountability practice circles for BIPOC and QTBIPOC impacted by violence as enactors, enablers, and survivors. She trained participants of these circles to lead their own practice circles within and outside of RooT. Rosa has trained individual space holders, organizational teams, and collectives in Oakland and across the US who serve primarily BIPOC and QTBIPOC communities to develop cultures of connection-centered, self and collective accountability.

Her facilitation and training experiences are rooted in fourteen years of secondary and college-level teaching and teacher training experience, in the Bay Area and New York City.

Her love of language began as a spoken word poet as a teen in the 1990s. She considers writing as a prayer and veneration practice for the many blood, artist, and healing steward lineages she belongs to. Her work has expanded to include creative nonfiction, fiction, and poetry for the page where she explores motherhood, queer love, and intergenerational healing. In addition to her dog-eared journals, her writing can be found in literary magazines, online platforms, and anthologies that exist to preserve practices in courageous curiosity and radical honesty.

Learn more about her published work and public appearances in her curricula vitae.

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