Today we’d like to introduce you to Jazzmin Pitts.
Hi Jazzmin, it’s an honor to have you on the platform. Thanks for taking the time to share your story with us – to start maybe you can share some of your backstory with our readers?
My story began with my relationship with my mother. I loved her deeply, but there were emotional needs within that relationship that were not always met in the ways I needed. As a child, I learned how to adapt, protect myself, and emotionally survive. Those survival strategies followed me into adulthood and shaped my relationships, decisions, and sense of self before I even realized it.
For years, I lived life on default settings. I found myself stuck in cycles of self-sabotage, repeating familiar patterns, and making decisions that did not align with the life I truly wanted. Many of those choices were rooted in what I had learned to do to feel safe, maintain connection, and avoid rejection. At times, that meant self-betrayal: silencing my needs, ignoring my intuition, or abandoning myself to preserve relationships.
Going to school for psychology gave me the language to understand what I had been living. Learning about attachment, trauma, emotional regulation, and human behavior helped me recognize that my patterns were not random. They were learned responses to emotional experiences that had never been fully examined.
Healing my relationship with my mother did not mean blaming her or pretending the past did not affect me. It meant developing compassion for her story while also telling the truth about my own. That process helped me rebuild self-trust, become more intentional, and separate who I truly was from the survival patterns I had developed.
That transformation became the foundation for Healed Black Women and later expanded into my work with youth and attachment-aware leadership. I realized that unresolved emotional patterns do not only affect our personal relationships. They shape how we parent, communicate, manage conflict, exercise power, and lead organizations.
Today, my mission is to help people understand what is driving their decisions so they can stop living unconsciously and begin choosing their lives with intention. My larger vision is to help change the emotional culture of leadership across Detroit by making self-awareness, emotional regulation, and relational safety essential parts of how we develop leaders and transform communities.
I’m sure it wasn’t obstacle-free, but would you say the journey has been fairly smooth so far?
It has not been a smooth road, because much of my work involves bringing an issue to the surface that people often do not realize is affecting them. Mental health is still frequently treated as something we address only when there is a crisis, but many of our everyday decisions, relationships, leadership styles, and communication patterns are being shaped by unresolved emotional wounds long before they reach that point.
One of the greatest challenges has been helping people understand that attachment is not just a conversation about childhood or romantic relationships. It affects how we handle rejection, respond to conflict, receive feedback, build trust, exercise power, and show up in leadership. Bringing attachment awareness to the forefront has required me to challenge the idea that professional success and emotional wellness are separate.
I have also had to create much of this path without a clear blueprint. Whether working with women, youth, organizations, or city leaders, I am often introducing language and frameworks that are still unfamiliar. That can mean resistance, misunderstanding, or having to repeatedly prove why this work belongs in spaces where mental health has traditionally been overlooked.
Still, those challenges have strengthened my conviction. I believe we cannot create healthier families, stronger organizations, or more effective leaders without understanding the emotional patterns influencing behavior. My work is about making the invisible visible, because once people can name what is driving them, they have a real opportunity to change it.
We’ve been impressed with Healed Black Women & Mental Stamina Consulting, but for folks who might not be as familiar, what can you share with them about what you do and what sets you apart from others?
Healed Black Women was the beginning of this work. I founded the organization to create spaces where Black women could understand the emotional patterns shaping their lives, particularly attachment wounds, mother wounds, self-betrayal, emotional regulation, and the loss of self-trust. The work helps women move beyond simply naming what happened to them and begin understanding how those experiences continue to influence their relationships, choices, and sense of identity.
What sets Healed Black Women apart is that we do not approach healing as a surface-level conversation. We help women identify the survival strategies they developed, recognize where those strategies may now be limiting them, and learn how to make decisions from awareness rather than emotional protection. I am most proud that the brand gives language to experiences many women have felt but have never known how to explain.
As the work grew, I realized these same emotional patterns were not limited to personal relationships. They were also showing up in workplaces, organizations, and positions of leadership. That realization led to the development of Mental Stamina Consulting, where I specialize in attachment-aware leadership.
One of the projects I am most proud of is the Attachment-Aware Leadership Series I developed and facilitated for Detroit Employment Solutions Corporation. The series challenged leaders to look beyond what they do and examine what may be driving how they do it. We explored how attachment patterns can appear through avoidance, control, defensiveness, people-pleasing, difficulty receiving feedback, conflict management, and emotional regulation.
What makes my work different is that I connect mental health, human behavior, and leadership development in a practical way. Traditional leadership programs often focus on performance, strategy, and productivity. My work focuses on the person behind the position and how their unexamined emotional patterns can influence workplace culture, morale, trust, accountability, and psychological safety.
Ultimately, both brands are connected by the same mission: helping people understand the patterns beneath their behavior so they can live and lead more intentionally. I want readers to know that Healed Black Women is transforming personal healing, while Mental Stamina Consulting is bringing that same depth of awareness into leadership and organizational spaces. My larger vision is to make attachment awareness, emotional regulation, and relational safety central to how Detroit develops its people and its leaders.
If we knew you growing up, how would we have described you?
Growing up, I was independent, curious, and always willing to push against anything that did not feel true to me. Some people may have called it rebellious, but looking back, I believe I was trying to find my way toward what felt safe, honest, and authentic. I did not always have the language to explain what I was feeling, but I knew when something did not sit right with me.
That instinct sometimes led me to challenge expectations, question authority, or choose a different path, even when I was unsure where that path would lead. I was searching for freedom and safety, but because I had not yet developed a strong sense of self, that search sometimes showed up through self-sabotage, difficult decisions, or resistance.
Over time, every challenge peeled back another layer of who I thought I had to be. Each experience forced me to confront a pattern, question a belief, or rediscover a part of myself that had been buried beneath survival. What once appeared to be rebellion was often my inner self refusing to fully accept a life that did not feel aligned.
That same quality still exists in me today, but it has become more intentional. I am still willing to question systems, challenge what has always been accepted, and push conversations forward. The difference is that I am no longer rebelling simply to escape discomfort. I am using my voice to help create spaces, relationships, and systems that feel more emotionally safe, truthful, and human.
Contact Info:
- Website: https://jazzminpitts.com/
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theattachmenthealer/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/
- Other: https://a.co/d/0dxZHpUC
