MY UNTOLD STORIES: THE ROADS THAT LED TO LIBERATION
Written by
Brittney D. Wardlaw
Have you ever been through something and you didn’t bother going into detail with anyone about it because you thought, “what’s the point?” Have you ever wondered if the difficult roads you have walked were in vain?
Well, I have. In 2020, I made a heavy, difficult and unpopular decision to walk away from my employment at Baylor University in a very public way. I left loudly. For years in both that institution and the church, I’ve seen black and brown Christians suffer psychologically in silence because they felt they had too much to lose. Their livelihood, their community, their sanity.
Gary and I made a faith saturated decision to walk away and (risk) losing it all…
What is she doing? Many asked.
What’s the point? Others wondered.
What happened? The community pondered.
I have taken the last few years to heal, rebuild and take the much needed time to get it all out.
In this book I talk about the why, as well as the what. And all the beauty that has bloomed from the ashes for me and my family.
*Along the way, I provide educational opportunities with references to historical context. My prayer is that you walk away a little more enlightened than when you came.
Thank you for taking the time to read my untold stories. And understand a little more about my road that led me to liberation. I pray it helps lead you to liberation as well.
“For years in both that institution and the church, I’ve seen black and brown Christians suffer psychologically in silence because they felt they had too much to lose.”
— Brittney D. Wardlaw
“With raw honesty and fearless authenticity, Brittney Wardlaw invites all readers in but speaks directly to the hearts of Black women, reminding us that true freedom isn’t just about breaking external barriers but releasing the internal ones, too.”
— Dr. D.L. Hill, Chief Empowerment Officer, Hill Consulting Group, LLC
About Brittney
Brittney Deanne Wardlaw, JD is a law school graduate, a wife to her best friend of 13 years, a mother of five thriving queens, an enthusiastic entrepreneur and an author following the call that is, the windy walk of faith. She never imagined she would be writing a book about the mountains and valleys of walking in obedience, and telling the testimony of the fruit of liberation that came —but not without pruning and refining.
After working as an administrator in higher education at PWI’s for nearly a decade, she is now walking in the fullness of entrepreneurship as the Co-Founder of her and her husband Gary’s for-profit mental health clinic, The Relationship Clinic (TRC), the Co-Founder of their non-profit, Institute for Healing Racial Trauma (iHRT), as well as the owner of her own professional development firm, BW Consulting.
