SHE REMEMBERED WHO SHE WAS

🕊️ A Message from the Heart

As we step into the second half of 2025, we’re holding sacred space for something revolutionary. At She Remembered Who She Was, we are preparing to launch a sanctuary built for Queer Women of Color—those who have endured, who are healing, and who deserve more than just survival.

Our mission isn’t just a statement—it’s a promise.

🌿 What We’re Building

We are in the planning stages of:

• Trauma-informed Healing Circles for Queer Women of Color
• Shelter and safe housing for survivors and their children
• Weekly therapy sessions led by culturally competent professionals
• Peer-led story-sharing circles rooted in dignity and restoration

Beginning January 2026, our 6-week Healing Circles will open to those on the waitlist. Services will be offered at no cost while we establish our nonprofit infrastructure.

Our circles are more than meetings—they are medicine. They are what we’ve long needed but never had.

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✨ Why This Matters

There are currently no healing circles or trauma-informed shelters in our region specifically for Queer Women of Color. We are changing that.

Every day, Black, Indigenous, Brown, and Latina women carry the weight of unspoken wounds. Many are navigating grief, trauma, and abuse alone. We believe healing should not be a privilege—it should be a birthright.

Your support—whether through visibility, donations, sharing our mission, or presence—helps us shape a new reality.

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📬 How You Can Help

• Share our email to be added to our waitlist with someone who may need this space
• Email us to get involved or offer your professional services
• Donate gently used goods or future financial support/Share the word
• Follow our journey on social media (links coming soon!)

📧 healingcircle2025@yahoo.com
📞 608-209-6826~Janet|240-917-8019~Bella

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💜 Until We Launch…

Thank you for standing with us as we build what we’ve never seen before.

We are not just creating a program. We are creating a movement of healing for the most underserved women in our communities.

In love, truth, and remembrance,
The She Remembered Who She Was Team

SRWSW MISSION & VISION STATEMENT

Mission Statement
At She Remembered Who She Was, our mission is to create sacred, trauma-informed spaces where Queer Women of Color and their children can feel safe, seen, and supported.
Through healing circles, shelter, storytelling, and holistic care, we help survivors reclaim their power, restore their spirit, and rise into the fullness of who they are.

Vision Statement
We envision a world where no Queer Woman of Color ever has to choose between survival and dignity.
A world where healing is not hidden, but honored.
Where every woman—regardless of her past—has access to safety, community, and the tools to rebuild her life.

We’re not just building programs.
We’re building a movement of remembrance, reclamation, and restoration.

Getting to Know the Creator & Founder

Janet Shelton-Vance, Creator/Founder

“She Remembered Who She Was” was not born from theory—it was born from survival.

As the founder of this movement, I am a Queer woman of color, a survivor of narcissistic abuse, and a woman who had to build the very space I needed to heal. I know what it feels like to have no safe landing, no soft place to collapse, no arms that say, “You are still whole.”

My true healing began when I started rewriting a novel I had recently unpublished. What started as survival transformed into storytelling—and then into purpose. My debut novel trilogy, “,”She Remembered Who She Was,” tells the raw, sensual, and emotional journey of healing from emotional abuse, rediscovering self-worth, and learning to trust again. Although fictional, It became more than a book. It became a blueprint.

This nonprofit and every circle we create are rooted in that same truth: that even after the deepest betrayals, love and wholeness are still possible. The name, the mission, the movement—it all comes from my lived experience.

I didn’t have a space like this. So I created one.

And now, I open it to you.

SRWSW Healing Circle Board Members

Ermalinda Ureste, Board President, Chief Officer

I walk the path of a healer, not just for myself, but for the collective. My journey through spiritual, mental, and emotional healing has become the foundation of how I lead—with love, deep grounding, and fierce self-awareness. I’ve been divinely called to hold space for others as they rise from their wounds into wholeness.

As Board President of the Healing Circle and a proud supporter of SRWSW’s mission and vision, I align deeply with their commitment to restorative justice, sacred healing spaces, and the empowerment of

POC communities. 

SRWSW work reflects my own soul’s calling—to restore dignity, balance, and spiritual liberation through community care and conscious leadership.

Whether I’m holding ceremony, offering energy work, or mentoring others on their journey, my purpose is clear: to be a vessel for transformation, for truth, and for sacred reclamation.

SRWSW non=profit and Healing circle is a heart-centered space rooted in spiritual wellness, emotional balance, and soul restoration. My own journey through deep healing ignited a calling to help others reconnect with their truth, release what no longer serves, and rise in love, clarity, and purpose.

Through intuitive energy healing and spiritual coaching, I guide others in reclaiming their power, grounding their spirit, and stepping fully into who they’re meant to be. This work isn’t just about healing the now—it’s about restoring the soul and honoring the sacred within.

🌿 Ready to align, heal, and rise?

Welcome to SRWSW six-week healing circle sessions and join our waitlist today and begin your sacred transformation.

Your soul already knows the way. 💫

📩 Connect with me to begin or deepen your healing journey ✨️ 😊 

Affirmation of Healing

“Circle of Reclamation”

In this circle, you are seen—
A radiant spectrum of color and truth,
Each story a pulse of survival,
Each breath a testament to your strength.

I honor the ache you carried
Beneath skin and bone—
The whispers of shame,
The echoes of “not enough.”
Here, we name the wound out loud,
And grant it the air to heal.

Permission blooms in your chest:
You may rest. You may feel.
You may mourn the pieces lost
And gather them, soft and sacred,
To weave a new mantle of belonging.

Your body is holy ground—
A vessel of stories written in scars,
A map of resilience etched in curves.
Touch it with tenderness,
Learn its language again.

We hold space for your voice:
The tremor, the shout, the gentle sigh.
Speak your truth in petals of poetry,
In the steady beat of your name on your tongue.
Here, your words are lifelines,
Carrying you home.

Stand firm in your boundaries—
They are the gates to your freedom,
Lines drawn in light that protect your heart.
Trust the compass within:
It knows the way to your reclaiming.

In sisterhood’s embrace, you are not alone—
We rise together, unbreakable threads
Of laughter, tears, and shared dreams.
Our mission calls us forward:
To weave radical truth and tenderness
Into the fabric of our healing.

Feel the thrill of reclamation—
Joy unfurling like sunrise,
A rebirth of self in full bloom.
You have survived. You are rising.
Here, you are free.

This is your invitation:
Step into the circle, beloved one,
Bring your storm and your stardust—
Together, we are the living promise
That healing is possible,
That you are whole,
That you belong.

Until we gather in solice, peace, where we can offer the love, healing and safe space, we offer this daily challenge to get our qweer women of color (qwoc) started.

“Circle of Reclamation: 7-Day Healing Challenge”

7-Day “Circle of Reclamation” mini-challenge—one simple healing exercise per day, grounded in our mission to empower queer women of color to heal, survive, and reclaim themselves:

1. Day 1 • Mirror of Truth
   Objective: Own your beauty, power, and worth.
   Exercise: Each morning, look into a mirror and speak three affirmations out loud (e.g. “I deserve safety,” “My story matters,” “I am whole”). Release any doubt with a deep exhale.
2. Day 2 • Earth Grounding
   Objective: Reconnect your body to the present moment.
   Exercise: Spend 10 minutes outside—bare feet on grass, soil, or sand. Close your eyes, inhale the air, notice sensations in your soles, and silently repeat, “I am held.”
3. Day 3 • Voice Reclamation Journal
   Objective: Give yourself permission to feel and speak.
   Exercise: Free‐write for 15 minutes on the prompt: “If I allowed myself to say exactly what I need, I would…”
   No censoring—let the words flow, then close with one self-compassion note.
4. Day 4 • Creative Body Tribute
   Objective: Celebrate your vessel through movement.
   Exercise: Put on a song that moves you. For 5–10 minutes, dance or stretch however feels right—no choreography, no judgment. Honor the parts of your body that carried you here.
5. Day 5 • Boundary Blueprint
   Objective: Define and protect your personal space.
   Exercise: Draw or write a simple “map” of one area of your life (work, relationships, online). Note one boundary you need (“no work emails after 7 PM,” “I say no without guilt”). Commit to enforcing it today.
6. Day 6 • Gratitude & Release Collage
   Objective: Hold both grief and gratitude with equal care.
   Exercise: On a page (digital or paper), paste or sketch images/words that represent something you’re grateful for as a QWOC survivor. In one corner, write something you’re ready to release. Sit with the tension—then rip/fade the release corner.
7. Day 7 • Sisterhood Check-In
   Objective: Anchor yourself in community support.
   Exercise: Reach out to one fellow QWOC in your life (or in our Circle). Share one thing you need today and one thing you appreciate about them. Allow yourself to both ask for and offer support.

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Completing these daily practices roots you in our Circle of Reclamation vision: that every queer woman of color deserves a safe, loving space to reclaim her story, rebuild her strength, and rise—together.