That Got Damn Adam

A psychoeducational intervention wrapped in narrative fire. That Got Damn Adam™ is not a simple self-help book. It's a reckoning with survival-coded grief, inherited emotional avoidance, and spiritual rupture—told through the unapologetic lens of Black emotional truth. Viola, a licensed professional counselor, private group practice owner, and visionary founder of The Rootwork Collective™, dismantles the emotional architecture of ancestral silence, relational collapse, and culturally conditioned headship. Despite the title, this work is not designed to call Black men out, but to call them in—into emotional accountability, spiritual clarity, and relational headship. Because where the head goes, the body follows. Yet it is not gender-bound. It holds space for both men and women. This is for those who've been told to "man up," "move on," or "pray harder." For those who carry grief that never got named, ruptures that never got repaired, and spiritual wounds that never got witnessed. It's for anyone ready to confront the emotional cost of survival, participate in their healing, and explore a return to Eden—not as a place, but as a posture. Whether you're a clinician, a pastor, a seeker, or someone navigating inherited silence and spiritual guilt, That Got Damn Adam™ offers a culturally anchored emotional framework—one rooted in truth, tonal relief, and strategic clarity. It names what Black communities are rarely allowed to feel, and what all of us are taught to suppress. That Got Damn Adam™ will not apologize for being emotionally precise, culturally anchored, and spiritually disruptive—because it's meant to be a firestarter for those who know that healing isn't soft, it's strategic. And in a world that pathologizes Black emotion, repositioning Black Love—rooted in accountability, emotional clarity, and spiritual truth—is nothing short of revolutionary.