A joyful black woman with braids in her hair, wearing a bright green satin shirt, smiling with eyes closed, touching her chest with one hand, sitting on a dark green couch against a gray background.

I'm Abigail.

Ghanaian American. DMV based. Lover of good conversation, honest writing, and the next flight out whenever life calls for an adventure.

I have been writing since the second grade — long before it was a blog, it was a journal. Around 2003, a little girl picked up a pen and started putting her world into words. Pages and pages of lessons, prayers, and the kind of honest reckoning with herself that nobody else was supposed to see. But somewhere along the way I realized that my healing journey wasn't just mine. And the things I was working through in private were the same things the women around me were carrying in silence.

So I started sharing. In 2014 I wrote my first blog post — Overcoming My Thorn — and I have never stopped.

With a background in communication and psychology and years of lived experience, I believe deeply that the right conversation at the right time can change everything. Not a polished, perfectly curated conversation — an honest one. The kind that starts with I have never said this out loud but and ends with someone finally feeling less alone.

That is what AbigailBadu.com is. And that is what the InsidHer podcast is.

This space exists for the conversations we don't get enough time for in church or Bible study. The human ones. The heavy ones. The ones about anxiety and friendship loss and forgiveness and what it actually feels like to be a woman of faith in the middle of real life. Not from a place of having it all figured out. From the middle of the journey, just like you.

My faith in Jesus is not a footnote in my story. It is the whole story. It is the lens through which I write, speak, heal, and show up here. And in this new season of AbigailBadu.com I am no longer tucking that away. God's Word and real life belong in the same conversation, and that is exactly what we are going to have.

When I am not writing or recording you can find me exploring a new city, coming home to my sweet fur babies Ren the cat and Coco the bunny, or somewhere quiet with my Bible and my journal doing the same work I invite you into here.

I am so glad you found your way to this space. Stay as long as you need. And know that whatever brought you here, you are not alone in any of it.

Inspiring others with the messy, real, and beautiful moments in life.

  • Woman sitting on the ground in a forest, smiling, holding a book, surrounded by green trees and small yellow flowers.
  • A woman in a yellow top and ripped jeans walking by the water with a city skyline in the background.
  • A woman with long dark hair, wearing a yellow top, ripped jeans, and tan sandals, is laughing and bending forward in a garden with green trees and a brick pathway. In the background, there is a red brick church with tall spires under a partly cloudy sky.
  • A woman with long dreadlocks wearing glasses, a black t-shirt, and white shorts crouches on the grass, taking a photograph with a camera during sunset in a park with trees, a lake, and picnic tables in the background.
  • Woman with braided hair smiling, wearing a red dress, standing in front of a decorated Christmas tree with silver ornaments.
  • Woman with braided hair wearing a patterned jacket and dark pants standing on a rooftop balcony at night with the Washington Monument and city skyline in the background, illuminated by city lights.
  • A young woman with curly hair is sitting on a white bench in front of a colorful mural on a brick wall. The mural features geometric shapes in rainbow colors and some text. She is wearing a black long-sleeve shirt, ripped jeans, and black high-heeled shoes, and she is smiling.
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