Growth is celebrated. The grief that comes alongside it rarely is. Lauren Michelle Jackson gets honest about the mourning that happens when you start becoming who you were always meant to be — and why that grief is not a sign something is wrong. It's a sign something is changing.

She's accomplishing everything on paper — but exhausted in a way a good night's sleep hasn't fixed in years. High functioning does not mean healed. Lauren Michelle Jackson breaks down what high-achieving Black women are really carrying and what healing actually looks like.