10/18/2026
Let’s catch up! I don’t even know where to begin. Y’all, it’s been a whirlwind!
Friday was a HUGE step for ERC. I had the chance to meet with the President and Vice Presidents of the American Association of Christian Counselors and collaborate. I’m so excited to see what God has next for us!
And even while I’m praising Jesus for this amazing opportunity, I’m being very careful to check my own heart. I don’t want to find myself wanting the approval of “man.”
Lesson: That’s NO ONE’S responsibility but my own!
As soon as that meeting was over, we ran over to EWomen Lynchburg. Y’all, there were over 5,000 women there! This was only my second time, but it was even more incredible than last year—and let me tell you why.
First, a lady I met right here last year has since come through the clinic. She has done a LOT of hard work and healing, and this weekend she came full circle to SERVE in the same place where she had been so broken.
Y’all… that right there. 😭🙌🏽
Then Ms. Kathleen… there are no words!
I met her last year when she won our gift basket. At the time, she had just found out she had an aggressive type of breast cancer. She told her doctors she was going to EWomen to get full of Jesus before they pumped her full of poison!
Well, she came back and found me, and she is CANCER FREE!!! She told me she took the blanket from that basket to chemo EVERY TIME!
Then she said, “Keisha, the doctors found a blood clot, so they say, but that ain’t nothing but the blood of Jesus!”
Y’all, that was Ms. Kathleen talking! In the middle of another concern, she was still giving Jesus praise! 🙌🏽
And if all of that wasn’t enough, look what happened next.
AACC invited me to speak onstage at EWomen to tell my story and share about Trauma Informed Care.
I was blown away and said, “Sure!”
Then they began preparing me and telling me all the things, and I found myself getting overwhelmed. Y’all, it was a LOT of information from some very important people, and in less than an hour, I was going to be speaking in front of 5,000 people!
Lean in and listen closely: THEY WERE DOING THEIR JOBS!
But on the inside, I was getting overwhelmed trying to take it all in. Finally, I had to stop and say out loud:
“Guys, I only know how to be Keisha. I can’t do what you’re wanting or I’m going to look like a fool. Can I just please be Keisha?”
The room stopped and got quiet.
You see, in that moment, God was giving me the power of choice. Was I going to conform, or was I going to be who HE created me to be?
I went backstage and texted Antoine, my team, and my speak-life circle:
“I AM KEISHA WRIGHT, a kind, patient woman of God. God has personally chosen me to live the impossible dream.”
See, God gave me that identity in the darkest time of my life. And 16 years later, standing on that stage, it was STILL TRUE!
I didn’t need to become someone else to walk into what God had for me. I needed to remember who HE said I was!
Today is REST. Tomorrow, back with AACC to do more work. Then we’re off to our LAST CLINIC OF THE YEAR!!!
And after everything that happened this weekend, I’m thinking about the women who will walk through those doors. Their stories. Their hurt. What God has waiting for them.
From a meeting room to a stage to a clinic… “Guiding Hurting People to Truth” is still why we do what we do. ❤️
Have you ever walked into a room and needed to give yourself permission to just be YOU?