Finding My Compass: Why Self-Advocacy is the Bridge to Healing

Hello from Jamaica 🫶🏾🇯🇲

I’ve always believed that moving beyond limiting systems and cycles is essential to healing and success. Wellness is the work we do within. Inclusion is the work we do in the world. That’s why I continue to serve as a multi-hyphenate professional and guide.

Since 2016, through global and community challenges, I’ve remained anchored in this work. Empowering people to maximize their potential is what I love most. In today’s world, it requires agility and resilience — and I’m proud to still be here. Along the way, I built my own system to return to a higher energetic frequency regardless of what’s happening.

After nearly 15 years of yoga and 10 years leading inclusion efforts, I’ve learned that self-advocacy is the first bridge. It’s the practice of locating your voice, claiming your worth, and using it with intention. On a cultural and spiritual level, it dismantles what no longer works and creates alignment. And the process can be painful — but most of us are never given enough opportunities to sharpen the skill. I’ve been in that place.

Self-advocacy is a life skill and health determinant. Trauma science shows that speaking up — strategically and soulfully — dismantles blockages that hold us back from our potential. This is critical to our health, family system, career and wealth.

Yet our world’s design makes it easy to get lost, not know where to find support, or try solutions that don’t fit our identity. After studying literally hundreds of tools, poses, practices, and methods I’ve learned how to pinpoint where I am on the journey and the work that remains. And I understand that this is what people need more than anything. The ability to activate a compass within YOURSELF enables Self-Advocacy more than anything.

This year, I’m dedicated to making Self-Advocacy education more accessible — through human-centered tools, nervous system training, and leadership science. Details coming soon.