When did we stop listening to each other? Why did we stop respecting each other?

Welcome to BearingABurden.com, the storytelling hub of Nova James, writer, advocate, and relentless truth-teller. Here, we explore the burdens that shape us, both the ones society puts on our shoulders and the ones we carry in silence. From broken systems to broken hearts, no topic is too heavy to hold.

Through the Bearing a Burden podcast and book series, we tackle the external weight: personal growth, education failures, political tension, justice gaps, and constitutional questions. 

We turn inward, through Queen of Hearts: Born a Lemon, to explore the internal weight of illness, identity, advocacy, and emotional resilience.

This is where struggle meets healing. Where the uncomfortable becomes conversation. Where every burden is acknowledged, not to dwell in it, but to learn how to carry it with more grace. If walking through my hardest chapters helps someone else find their footing a little sooner, then then perhaps both our journeys will become a little easier.