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What happens when the mother, the helper, the one everyone depends on realizes she still needs healing, too?
T. Lenell knows that question personally.
Behind the pen name is Taneesha Henderson Crawford, a Chicago special educator, licensed social worker, advocate, and mother of five. She began parenting at 20, before she fully understood herself. Motherhood, relationships, faith, and her work with children and families have kept challenging her to look inward.
Her writing asks the questions we sometimes avoid: What did we learn about love growing up? What are we still carrying? How do we recognize the patterns shaping our relationships? And what do our children need us to understand about ourselves?
Born and raised on Chicago’s South Side and later in the suburbs, Taneesha brings lived experience, professional insight, and Christian faith to conversations about self-worth, healing, parenting, and connection. She holds master’s degrees in special education and social work, but she writes as a woman still learning, too.
That same honesty carries into Howdy, Parents!, her newsletter about parenting, school struggles, and building stronger relationships with our children. Through Happy Hearts Classroom, she also creates children’s learning and emotional growth resources.
Her books invite you into a conversation that continues after the last page.
What have you been carrying, and what do you want to pass on?
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