Benedicta Tetteh: Healing Voices, Leading Women, and Empowering Change

Kami Redd
Feb 1
3 min read

Updated: Apr 21

From Pain to Purpose

For Benedicta Tetteh, purpose was born through pain. As a young woman navigating trauma, rejection, and cultural expectations, she often found herself at war with identity, mental health, and womanhood. But rather than allow adversity to silence her, Benedicta turned it into a platform. Today, she is the founder of The Girl on Fire Movement, an organization committed to helping women heal, evolve, and take back their power.

Based in Accra, Ghana, her work spans across continents, reaching women from all backgrounds and belief systems. She blends storytelling, coaching, and emotional support to help women see themselves as whole, worthy, and capable of creating lives rooted in truth.

The Girl on Fire Movement

The Girl on Fire Movement isn’t just a catchy name—it’s a bold declaration. “I started the movement to be a voice for the voiceless,” Benedicta shares. “I wanted to help women turn their pain into purpose.”

The organization offers coaching, prayer sessions, healing circles, and community gatherings designed to help women process trauma, navigate relationships, and rediscover their identities. The core message is simple but radical: your voice matters, your story is valid, and your healing is possible.

Through events like Dear Sister: Let’s Heal Together, Benedicta brings women into safe spaces where vulnerability is not weakness, but a doorway to freedom. Women share stories of betrayal, abuse, heartbreak, and fear—and leave with clarity, confidence, and community.

A Holistic Approach to Healing

Benedicta’s approach is holistic. She integrates faith, emotional wellness, and personal development into every interaction. A devout Christian, she believes in healing through both spiritual and practical means. Her sessions often include prayer, journaling, and reflection—alongside coaching exercises that challenge limiting beliefs and build emotional strength.

“I don’t believe in telling women to ‘just pray it away,’” she says. “God gave us tools—emotions, thoughts, language. Healing happens when we use them wisely.”

Her own journey has made her sensitive to how women internalize trauma. She teaches them to name their pain, confront their patterns, and reimagine what healthy love and self-worth look like.

Creating Safe Spaces

For Benedicta, creating safe spaces isn’t just professional—it’s personal. She remembers being a teenage girl struggling with depression and having no one to talk to. “I had to learn how to hold space for myself before I could hold space for others,” she says.

Now, through her movement, she creates digital and in-person spaces where women can release shame and cultivate healing. Her vulnerability sets the tone. She openly shares her experiences with anxiety, emotional abuse, and spiritual confusion—making it easier for others to speak up.

“My pain had a purpose,” she reflects. “It taught me how to listen, how to see people, and how to lead with compassion.”

Empowerment Through Expression

One of Benedicta’s primary tools is voice. She encourages women to express their emotions, truths, and needs unapologetically. Her signature phrase, “Silence is not golden when it suppresses your soul,” underpins much of her work.

She leads workshops on boundary-setting, inner child healing, and self-compassion. In every session, the goal is the same: to help women find their voice and use it.

In her community, women are encouraged to write, speak, sing, cry, or sit in silence—whatever helps them move through their process authentically.

Challenges as a Black Woman Leader

Leading in a cultural and religious context where women are often expected to stay quiet hasn’t been easy. Benedicta acknowledges the pressure to conform. “Sometimes, I feel like I’m too bold for the church and too spiritual for the world,” she says.

But that tension has taught her resilience. She continues to lead with authenticity, trusting that her voice has a place—even if it makes others uncomfortable.

As a Black woman, she’s intentional about using her platform to speak against gender-based violence, emotional manipulation, and spiritual abuse. She doesn’t shy away from hard topics—she leans into them with grace and fire.

Global Vision, Local Roots

Though based in Ghana, Benedicta’s vision is global. She envisions Girl on Fire chapters across Africa, Europe, and North America—local groups led by women trained to hold healing circles and facilitate empowerment sessions.

She also plans to launch a mentorship program and publish a devotional book that includes stories and prayers written by women in the community. “I want every woman to know she’s not alone,” she says. “Her voice, her tears, her journey—they all matter.”

Advice to Women Finding Their Way

To women struggling with their identity, faith, or healing, Benedicta offers this:

“God is not afraid of your emotions. Your tears don’t scare Him. Your story doesn’t disqualify you. In fact, it prepares you to help someone else.”

She urges women to stop hiding behind performance or silence and instead seek truth. Whether through therapy, prayer, or community, healing is available—and necessary.