About Olivette
I didn't always have a lanuguage for the life I was living.
On the outside, I was doing what needed to be done.
Showing up. Taking care of people.
Handling
responsibilities.
Being the strong one.
The responsible one.
The one others could depend on.
But somewhere along the way...
I realized I wasn't living a life that felt like mine.
That realization didn't come from a breakdown.
It came from a quiet awareness:
"I should feel happier than this."
And I didn't.
By the age of 27, I had lost my mother, grandmother,
and my great-grandmother within a year.
Three generations.
Gone.
That kind of loss doesn't just change your life ...
it changes how you move through it.
It deepened my sense of responsibility.
It strengthened my ability to keep going.
But it also revealed something I hadn't fully faced:
I had learned how to ...survive. but not how to live in joy.
As a School Counselor, I've worked for thousands of children and their families.
And over time, I began to notice something...
The patterns I was helping children navigate were the same patterns
their mothers were living.
Women who were:
carrying everything
holding everyone together
showing up for everyone else.
but quietly disconnected from themselves.
That's when everything began to come together.
My personal experience.
My professional work.
And the patterns I could finally name.
I created Root to Rise as a way to help women understand:
Why their life feels like it's not their own...
and how to change that from the inside out.
This work isn't about motivation.
It's about awareness.
It's about recognizing the survival patterns you've been living in...
and learning how to move differently.
Because most women don't need more discipline.
They need space.
Space to hear themselves.
Space to choose differently.
Space to reconnect with who they are outside of everything they carry.
Through Root to Rise, Joy Collective and The Modern-Day Kitchen,
I create spaces where women can:
slow down, tell the truth, be supported and begin again.
This is not about becoming someone new.
It's about returning to yourself.
Who This Work is For
This work is for women who:
is holding everything together
is used to being the strong one
feels responsible for everyone else
has achieved a lot... but still
feels disconnected
does'nt lack discipline...
but lacks space
She's not falling apart
She's just ready for something more.
My Life Outside the Work
Joy for me looks like:
old movies
black and white photos
music playing in the background
as I'm cleaning my house
cozy nights at home traveling
and quiet moments with my husband and family.
Because joy isn't something
I visit anymore.
It's something I've learned
how to live in.
And that's what I help other women do too.
