For a long time, I’ve shared pieces of my journey… but I haven’t fully introduced the heart of it—my doctoral work.
My project, Sex for Every Body: Intimacy, Identity, and Body Dysmorphia in Black Women, centers on a reality that is often overlooked:
How we see our bodies deeply shapes how we experience intimacy.
This work explores the intersection of body image, identity, and relational closeness—specifically for Black women, whose experiences are often missing or misunderstood in both research and clinical spaces.
A therapeutic Workbook for Black Women Navigating Body Dysmorphia, identity, and intimacy .
It’s designed to help individuals:
• Understand how body image distress shows up in their lives
• Explore how it impacts emotional, physical, and sexual intimacy
• Gently challenge internalized narratives about their bodies
• Reconnect with themselves in a more compassionate, embodied way
Grounded in frameworks like intersectionality, attachment, and objectification theory, this project honors both the clinical and lived experience.
It includes reflective exercises, body-based awareness practices, and guided prompts that can be used individually or alongside a clinician.
Because the goal isn’t perfection, it is awareness, connection, and healing.
This work is deeply personal. It’s professional. And it’s purposeful.
And now, as I prepare to defend it later this year…
I’m proud to finally say:
This is what I’ve been building. 
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According to LaShonda, Your Finer Certified Sex Therapist.