THE ORIGIN: A SYSTEM TOO CLINICAL, A WOMAN TOO REAL

There’s a gap between surviving and thriving — and most women never get what they need to cross it.
That’s what RISING HerWay: The Women Rising Project, was built to change.
Our founder, Tamika Saxx-a disabled U.S. Army veteran and mental health professional, knows firsthand how the system misses women like us.

The boxes.

The sterile rooms.

The quiet shame.

The pressure to explain trauma in 45-50-minute slots. And the aching loneliness that lingers after the therapy session ends.
But something happens when military-connected women who get it gather. Not in a group called “therapy” — but in spaces that feel like homecoming.
Where the laughter is unfiltered. The tears are sacred. And the healing is… accidental.
That’s when she knew:
“I didn’t want to build another program.
I wanted to build a place.
Where HER healing didn’t have to ask permission.”
So she did.