It starts early...
The message that it's never just enough to exist in our playfulness. There are strong distinctions made between work and study vs. play and rest. Why is that?
It's not true.
You're enough as you are.
You are loveable,
valuable and worthy.
You have incredible gifts the world needs. Has there been something stopping you from sharing them? What if you can embody that which you imagine to create?
Let's dive deep together.
"When a plant isn’t growing or thriving, you don’t try to fix the plant itself, instead you fix the environment around the plant. Like a plant, you do not need to be fixed, you simply need to create an environment that nurtures your growth."
- Juliet Diaz
Embodied Learning
I'm not here to fix you because there's nothing wrong with you. You might struggle to believe that you're perfectly flawed. But, trust me: All your so-called 'mistakes' are your magic. I'm here to remind you of your unconditional worthiness. Like others have done for me and continue to. We need community. We need mirrors. To know that yes. What we are yearning for is possible. It is just as much possible as it is impossible. Do you want to lean into the (im)possible with me?
I know...
It can feel like the world is a hopeless place sometimes with all the injustices: racism, colourism, casteism, sexism, ableism, homophobia, queerphobia, transphobia, fatphobia, imperalism, capitalism, political/religious persecution, poverty, environmental destruction, genocides...
I'm not here to deny this reality.
I know it sucks and it can drain us.
However, what are we
going to do about it?
One of my favorite quotes
by Toni Cade Bambara is:
"Not all speed is movement."
As the wonderful
Toni Morrison said:
"As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think."
We know so much, yet we feel like it's never enough.
We've unlearned how to embody
what we already know deep inside.
We've mostly been taught to study from our mind because of colonial mind-body-binaries, when it actually happens with our whole body. I believe that learning is quite a different experience from an embodied sense of being enough.
I'm not here to fix you. I'm here to connect you with this sense of enoughness. I'm here to support you in naming the conditions of your environment and how they affect you, so that you stop blaming yourself for things outside your control. Wherever possible, I'm here to empower you to find, choose and create a mutually supportive environment. I'm not here to make you rich, famous and successful. I'm here to connect you with the curious and creative parts of yourself that you've been disconnected from, which leads to fulfillment beyond external metrics.
I'm here to connect social justice and creative purpose.
Others can hold up a mirror, remind us of who we are and what we are capable of. Here are some of my mirrors:
Sky
"Imọlẹ has an approach to healing your relationship with money on a level that will align you to more than just money. Money acquires a spiritual meaning, one of a facilitator to your dreams, a friendship even, one free of shame and full of possibility. Every session contains so much more than I could have possibly imagined and money is just one reflection of holistic healing I experienced with Imọlẹ. I felt held in a container of safety, a cathartic and cozy space to dream big and feel nurtured, especially helpful for me being neurodivergent and sometimes feeling like my dreams are too big and too much to be realized. Thank you to Imọlẹ for overflowing your gifts into this world!!!"
anonymous poem*
"I feel like I was gifted something special. Imọlẹ gives me the feeling that I am important. They open doors to new understandings of my self and my world. All the laughter and relating felt great. I feel like the session could have gone on for much longer and still no time would have been wasted. I discovered interconnections that I never knew about. Highly recommended! Oh, and I was allowed to be as autistic as I really am. I didn’t even know that I was missing that."
*I call us poems because I believe in our inherent poetry.
Heather
"Working with Imọlẹ is magic, wisdom and deep healing. Their workshop helped me safely process trauma around money. As a marginalized person, I felt not only seen but held in all parts of who I am in the workshop to heal."
my mom
"Imọlẹ has the special gift of dealing with topics with great intellectual depth. I feel blessed again and again by the wisdom that comes from conversations with Imọlẹ and applies to my own life situations."
Susana
"Imọlẹ provides a safe space where you can reflect on your beliefs about money and explore how those beliefs have been established within you."
Olatundé
"Imọlẹ has a way that they slay spiritually from different emotional dimensions without making it sound too serious or harsh. That's wisdom."