10 years ago I co-founded a multidisciplinary platform focussing on creative self-expression, academic development and spiritual wellbeing. This was drawn from my experience teaching creative writing in academia, writing my own fiction and non-fiction works, later published by Way Wive Wordz publishing arm. We merged my previous experience from a holistic well-being enterprise (Nubia Pamper Day), aimed at minoritised women and my personal experiences around cultural identity, creativity and spirituality. I am interested in combining art forms and life experiences that promote cultural development, spiritual transformation and holism. To this end, my PhD was interdisciplinary – anthropological, social, cultural, literary and spiritual. It highlighted the interconnectedness of cultures stemming from the event of enslavement and forced migration of Africans into the Americas. Guyanese Komfa: the ritual art of trance, my thesis, highlighted the spiritual retentions from Africa and those adopted in the Americas through encounters with different cultures, ethnicities and spiritual practices. It would become one of the Way Wive Wordz publications, among others:
The Awakening poems, Elijah (novel), Something Buried in the Yard (novel) and Mama Lou Tales: The Biography of a Guyanese Elder. As independent publishers, we have also helped emerging authors to have their work published.
While I have done intuitive readings for a number of years, these have been for family and friends and less public facing. I have kept this side of my spiritual journey closed for a number of reasons. But increasingly I am being called to help others navigate their spiritual journeys and awaken to their higher self. I am heeding the call.