Rise & Renew was born from a sacred bond of nearly 30 years of sisterhood between Dr. Lillian Haley and her closest Sista friends. It is both a deeply personal journey and a collective call to reimagine how Black women heal through grief.

In 2011, just weeks after relocating to Atlanta, Dr. Haley experienced the loss of her father and her first miscarriage. She and her husband bore the weight of the pregnancy loss in silence, never speaking it aloud. She grieved alone, privately, as so many women do. Nearly a decade later, during Mother’s Day weekend of 2020, she endured a second miscarriage. But this time, something was different, she reached out to her sista circle. They showed up.

With prayer, presence, laughter, and care, they carried her through the lowest spiritual valley of her adult life. That moment marked a turning point, not just in her healing, but in her understanding of what it means to grieve in community.

Rise & Renew is the offering that emerged from that journey. It is a space for Black women to gather in the aftermath of loss, to be witnessed, and to begin again; not alone, but held in the arms of community.