Adria Moses

Adria Moses Writer. Healer. Teacher. Founder of The School of Radical Healing.

Today I’m 33.

I was born on 9/11, and when you add up my full birthdate, you get 33. My Life Path number is also 33.
In...
09/11/2026

Today I’m 33.

I was born on 9/11, and when you add up my full birthdate, you get 33. My Life Path number is also 33.

In numerology, 33 is considered a master number. The teacher, the artist, the healer. The one who learns through living and makes something of what they’ve learned.

9 carries the energy of completion. 11, intuition and awakening. And 3, the number surrounding this year of my life, represents expression, creativity, voice, joy, and being seen.

This birthday feels like an arrival.

Not into a new version of myself, but more deeply into the woman I have spent years becoming.

To write, to teach, to create. To make beauty from what once hurt. To trust my voice, to let myself be seen. To remember that healing does not require me to turn every wound into a lesson. To allow a meaningful life to also be a pleasurable one.

I have spent so much of my life surviving, rebuilding, beginning again. At 33, I want to simply inhabit.

Less proving that I made it through, more allowing myself to be here.

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Photographed by Justine Castle for Towards What Hurt

Detroit, I would love to gather with you. On September 23, we’ll celebrate Towards What Hurt at the Detroit Public Libra...
09/10/2026

Detroit, I would love to gather with you.

On September 23, we’ll celebrate Towards What Hurt at the Detroit Public Library.

I knew I didn’t want the public launch of this book to simply be a reading. Towards What Hurt was made through the body. Through grief, illness, memory, survival, devotion, and the slow work of returning to myself, I needed the gathering to honor that, too.

We’ll share poetry, conversation, reflection, and space to be present with what these words might open in us. I’ll be joined in conversation by Michaela Ayers, and together we’ll explore the stories, questions, and lived experiences that shaped this collection.

There is something especially meaningful about celebrating this book in Detroit, the city that made me, surrounded by community.

If you’ve been following this journey, reading my work, holding me through this year, or simply feel called to be in the room, I hope you’ll come.

September 23 · Detroit Public Library

Free and open to all. RSVP now at the link in my bio. Come gather with me. 🫶🏽

There will always be hardship. I do not want a soft life. I want liberation. Now. I want long life and love. Here’s your...
09/09/2026

There will always be hardship. I do not want a soft life. I want liberation. Now. I want long life and love.

Here’s your sign to go ahead and make an Ancestor proud.

Towards What Hurt is officially in the world.This year started with major open abdominal surgery. More of my small intes...
09/08/2026

Towards What Hurt is officially in the world.

This year started with major open abdominal surgery. More of my small intestine and part of my colon, gone. I didn’t know what would come of me, but I surrendered entirely.

I still remember those first few days I felt decent enough to start going through my apartment, finding old poems. Some I wrote not long after my first surgery in 2013. I’d stay up late, IV still running, still getting my nutrition from a bag, and I’d edit.

In all honesty, getting lost in my work made me forget the pain.

Devotion entered my rooms, and I committed myself to completion. It became my everything, and recovery turned into a ceremony.

Years of lived experience brought me here. Poetry has given me an outlet to express my deepest wounds, my strengths, my beliefs.

I’m immensely proud of this body of work, and I believe it should live in many places, at many times, with many people who feel this language in their body.

Towards What Hurt is here. You can bring it home today. 🤎

Available now. Link in bio.

Photography by Justine Castle

An ode to summer. Thank you for showing me how things change 🫶🏼
09/08/2026

An ode to summer. Thank you for showing me how things change 🫶🏼

Had the absolute pleasure of sitting down with Lit Happens With Syd to talk about my upcoming poetry collection, Towards...
09/06/2026

Had the absolute pleasure of sitting down with Lit Happens With Syd to talk about my upcoming poetry collection, Towards What Hurt, debuting this Tuesday 9/8.

You can watch the whole thing at the link in my bio ✨

Even when I was scared to leave, I left anyways. When I was scared to speak, I spoke anyways. When I was scared to die, ...
09/04/2026

Even when I was scared to leave, I left anyways. When I was scared to speak, I spoke anyways. When I was scared to die, I lived anyways.

When God offered something better, I closed my eyes and opened my hands. I squeeze the compass of my own desires.

Do not be afraid, there is wisdom in uncertainty and life on the other side of your familiar suffering.

From Towards What Hurt, now shipping.

09/03/2026

A labor of love. I self-published my first poetry collection, Towards What Hurt: a ceremony in poems.

It debuts September 8th and is shipping now.

Support this indie author by visiting the link in my bio 🫶🏼

Some evenings are made for writers. Join us for Pen & Persistence, the Detroit Writing Room’s gathering for writers, fea...
09/01/2026

Some evenings are made for writers.

Join us for Pen & Persistence, the Detroit Writing Room’s gathering for writers, featuring poet adria moses reading from her debut collection, Towards What Hurt, and talking about how she brought it to life: the years, the recovery, the whole ceremony of making a book.

Tuesday, September 15 · 7 PM
Michigan Central, 5th floor
Tickets at the link in bio

Come write, listen, and be among your people.

08/29/2026

I painted the cover of my debut poetry collection, Towards What Hurt and every preorder comes with a mini art print of the original artwork.

Enjoy this packing video ✨

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