Meet the Characters of The Secret Sand Circle: Week Two Pt.3
This week you are meeting three of the five patients Psychologist, Dr. Jo Harkins, is writing about in her book. Today's character is twenty-four year old Aiysha Jackson.
Aiysha shows up unexpectedly at Jo’s door on a Saturday explaining that a friend assured her, “….it would be cool if I swung by to grab a few minutes.” Tears forming in the woman’s eyes encourage Jo to welcome her into The Garden counseling space in what becomes the first of their regular Saturday patient sessions.
The willowy Black woman with intricately beaded braids, striking jade green eyes and high-fashion clothing appears like a hybrid of a celebrity and a runway model. Yet as Jo soon discovers, beneath Aiysha’s sophisticated appearance is a frightened child hiding within the deepest recesses of her body and mind. A child entrapped in a life where her beauty has invited unwanted touch and exploitation.
And now, as an adult where she struggles to navigate the landmines of her modeling, make-up artist and fashion photographer career, where her value is based on the way she looks, far more than her 𝒔𝒆𝒍𝒇.
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