Alchemy - a seemingly magical process of transformation, or creation through the combining of elements. This is not your average experience. Through alchemy, I bring together a blend of elements and expertise, including but not limited to:
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the trauma of oppression
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relational psychodynamics
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decolonizing internalized capitalism & White supremacy
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healing inter-generational trauma
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ritual and ancient tradition of the disapora
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mindfulness & conscious movement
The Alchemy can be applied to create a way out of suffering; and often the only way out is through. Through feeling deeply, speaking truth to power & finding your authentic voice, through Spirit, through political education, through unpacking inter-generational legacies of trauma.
Each healing experience is curated to honor the totality of each being and their innate healing wisdom.
My Approach
[The Alchemy]
"Be easy.
Take your time.
You are coming home to yourself"
-Nayyirah Waheed
ReImagine Legacy
ReImagine Legacy is an interdisciplinary enterprise archiving, innovating and mobilizing culturally-enhanced community health & healing interventions seeded within kinship connections (kinnections). The enterprise focuses on reproductive mental health, and addressing gaps in holistic care for Black Womxn, Birthing People, our families and communities. We also explicitly defer to the knowledge and insights of the LGBTQIA+ community, centering our voices and experiences within the work.
Engaging with community using storytelling and konjuring ancestral wisdom and practices, ReImagine Legacy aims to resurrect, evolve and share the knowledge, spells, and practices collected. Through an archive of stories, practices, and traditions ancient-future paradigms for kare and kinship are elevated.
Black communities (& IPOC kin) can also access these resources and medicine through workshops & events, psychoeducation, immersive healing justice experiences, political education, and advocacy from micro to macro levels.
The aim of ReImagine Legacy is to reinstill Black communities with knowledge, language, and innovative strategies that empower us to name our experiences and needs across the reproductive lifespan, as well as collaboratively design solutions and interventions.
We are inviting Black communities back to legacies and traditions of healing, kinship, kollective care & responsibility. With these tools, Black Women and Birthing people can advocate for our rights more effectively, access resources and interventions more readily, and live an enhanced quality of life, improving intergenerational outcomes.
WHAT PEOPLE SAY
Naimah has consistently helped me identify patterns of thinking and behavior that are directly tied to traumas I have experienced in my life. She is so easy for me to talk to because I don't feel like I have to explain myself to her. She is aware of the traumas that come with experiencing life under systematic oppression, and has an educated understanding of how this manifests in individuals and interpersonal relationships. It is a huge relief to have support in drawing connections between these experiences, identity, and personal fulfillment, and I'm so thankful for her work. I finally feel like I'm on the right path, and my sessions with Naimah are my favorite part of the week.
— KD, she/her/hers