Around this time last year, Tarana Burke was on top of the world.

Yeah, the early part of 2021 was, I guess it was probably the greatest, one of the greatest moments in my life.

It was the highest point in my life.

I had been waiting my whole life to be an author.

As the founder of the Me Too movement, Tarana was finally

experiencing that kind of liberation that comes from finally sharing your

truth. Unbound is the name of her memoir, and it's also how she felt.

She even got to co-write a book with one of her idols, Brenay Brown.

Both books made it to the New York Times Best Seller list.

After decades of struggle and pain and hard work,

Toronto was reveling in her rewards.

Then came Thanksgiving.

We had finished eating, Thanksgiving, dinner.

Everybody was sitting around relaxing, and my mother answered the phone.

Tarana studied her mother as she held the phone to her face. Her mother's smile beginning to fade.

My mother turned to me and she said, grandma has COVID. And I was, yeah, I was walking across from the dining

room into the living room and I stopped in my tracks and I said, I stopped immediately instead of prayers. Okay God. All right. It's fine. My

grandma was 92. I said okay. It's okay. It's okay. It's okay. That's cool.

Okay. It's gonna be okay. It's gonna be okay

From that moment until this everything in my life started unraveling. That's when the

tsunami started. A tsunami. You know you can't always name it when you're in it, but maybe you can

look back on it and say this is how I survived. Grief, renewal, and joy on this episode of Truth Be Told.

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