My wellness journey didn’t need more discipline, it needed more softness 🪷✨
Lately, I’ve been exploring small shifts that help me feel more nourished and supported… warm grounding meals, slower movement, and being more intentional about supporting my gut health. I recently tried this fermented Japanese plum from @share_swiss and have genuinely enjoyed incorporating it into my routine.
Use my code “Ebonee5” for 5% off your order! 🤲🏾
Bali did not heal me. It showed me where my shadow still hides. 🤲🏾✨🦋
I cried so many times on this trip, and so many times since I’ve returned home. Because I realized that, in an effort to brace myself for life, I haven’t truly allowed it to touch me. Not deeply. Not to the heart.
What I felt in Bali was the stripping back of layers. The removal of emotional calluses. The vulnerability that comes with being fully present in your life.
There was a moment racing through a botanical garden on ATVs where I almost fell. And in that instant, I realized something simple: life is about taking risks. Not just the ones that threaten you physically, but the ones that threaten you emotionally.
The moments that hold the most joy also carry the risk of pain. And still, you choose to feel it. Fully. Honestly. In real time.
I have been through so much in the last few years. So many deaths. So many rebirths. So much grief. So much heartache.
And yet, in this moment, I still choose to let life touch me. I still open myself to the full spectrum of this experience.
I don’t want to perform my life. I want to live it.
How very brave of me. How very sexy of me. How very authentic of me. How very worthy of me.
Full reflection on Substack now. 💌
Miracle Knots for my Bali Wellness Retreat! 🌺
Much gratitude to @neternaturals for these divine creations! As a holistic girlie, finding natural products to maintain my locs is such a blessing! The oil + spray smell DELICIOUS and the loc gel has now become my favorite edge control. 🤭
Would you try this style?
#locs #miracleknots #naturalhair #locjourney
Cultivating intimacy at @dunyacamp ⛺️✨🌱
Because the templates we’ve inherited no longer serve us.
We’ve been taught that intimacy is physical, tangible, carnal. But rarely are we shown the closeness that forms through a shared relationship with The Divine. The way two hearts draw near in the midst of honest conversation. The way bodies follow spirit, not lead.
Grateful for this moment to rewrite the blueprint for our lives.
What we wish to see in the world that does not yet exist, we are responsible for creating. 🤲🏾💫
In our recent Fireside Chats episode with @charichinyoungcaston & @eboneedavis , they shared such a real conversation about what it means to balance mental health, being a creative, and how powerful the subconscious shapes our reality.
Watch the full episode with the link in our bio to learn ways you can begin your mindset shifts this season 🧘♀️
#atlanta #mentalhealthawareness #creativesmentalhealth
Ancestors’ baby 🪽✨🤲🏾
Michelle’s daughter
Nancy & Betty’s granddaughter
Grandma Eddie’s answered prayer
Big Mama’s dream come true
Nina Simone’s mouthpiece
Maya Angelou’s birthright
Toni Morrison’s legacy
Oshun’s promise
Isis’s prophecy
Grateful for all the women, warriors, guides and goddesses in my lineage who set the precedent for my being. Who paved the way for my becoming. Who wrote, prayed, and chanted for my freedom. This is for you. This is for us. In honor of National Poetry Month, my original poem DAUGHTER is available now on streaming platforms.
Link in bio to receive these vibrations for liberation. 🤍🌀
Photos: @earthbased.media
Dear daughter, do you remember? 🤲🏾✨🪷
My poem DAUGHTER was written as both a battle cry and a lullaby. A call to rise into our power and reclaim what was taken, while gently tending to the wounds carried in silence across generations.
It is an honoring of the unseen thread that binds child to mother, lineage to land, body to spirit. “An umbilical cord that cannot be severed.”
This piece traces the connection between the exploitation of Mother Earth and the ongoing subjugation of women’s bodies. These histories are not separate, but intertwined. Here, they become one story, one memory, one reclamation.
To be DAUGHTER is to know, deeply and without question, that you have always been whole; that you have always been holy.
The full film MUJERES DE LAS PIEDRAS is now available on YouTube. Link in bio to witness this offering. 🎥✨🎞️
Director / choreo: @jadeeyemoon
Cinematography: @summit.earth
Production: @earthbased.media
Original poetry: @eboneedavis
Custom costume: @sol.auset
Special thanks: @christianahmed_
The Portrait Study of Human Expression 🤍
Deepest gratitude to @dontemaurice for inviting me to be a part of the series and for capturing my humanity so beautifully. There’s something intimate and special about these moving portraits that photos don’t always capture. An essence that transcends the limits of stillness. A dynamic range that is not only seen, but truly felt. 🫂✨
