About
Your healing is not something you have to figure out alone.
My Story
My journey into this work did not begin as a business, but as a search for healing.
Like many Black women, I found myself navigating the complexities of my body without clear answers. Weight fluctuations, stress, shifting energy, and patterns around food that felt difficult to break. These experiences were not just physical; they were emotional, mental, and, in many ways, spiritual.
And yet, the guidance I encountered often felt incomplete.
Conventional approaches focused on discipline but not compassion. On restriction but not understanding. On symptoms but not the deeper patterns shaping my relationship with my body.
At the same time, I felt a quiet pull toward something older. Something ancestral.
I began exploring herbal medicine, nutrition, and holistic health not just as tools for physical wellness, but as pathways back to my body. I studied how food nourishes, how herbs support the body’s natural rhythms, and how consistent care can begin to restore balance over time.
But healing did not fully open up for me until I went deeper.
Through hypnotherapy, I began to understand the subconscious patterns that shape our habits, our cravings, and our responses to stress. I saw how many of the behaviors we struggle with are not failures of willpower, but learned patterns rooted in experience, survival, and conditioning.
Through astrology, I began to see the body in a new way—connected to cycles, timing, and deeper energetic patterns that influence how we move through the world.
And through my exploration of African diasporic spiritual traditions, I began to reconnect with a lineage of healing that had always been available to me, even if it had been obscured or fragmented over time.
What I came to understand is this:
Healing is not one-dimensional.
It requires tending to the body, the mind, and the spirit—together.
The Healing Calabash was born from that understanding.
It is a space where the practices that support my own healing come together in a grounded, intentional way. A space where Black women can receive care that honors both modern knowledge and ancestral wisdom. A space where we are not asked to disconnect from ourselves in order to become “healthy,” but instead are guided back into relationship with our bodies.
My work is rooted in the belief that our bodies are not problems to be fixed, but systems to be understood, supported, and respected.
And that when we are given the right tools, the right support, and the space to listen—we are fully capable of transforming our health and our lives.
This is the work of The Healing Calabash.
The Healing Calabash Manifesto
We believe healing is our birthright.
For generations, Black women have carried families, communities, and entire movements on our backs while being denied the care, nourishment, and restoration our bodies deserve. We have survived systems that profit from our exhaustion, ignore our pain, and dismiss the wisdom of our ancestral healing traditions.
The Healing Calabash exists to change that story.
The calabash has long been a sacred vessel across the African diaspora—used to carry water, herbs, medicines, and offerings to the ancestors. It is a symbol of nourishment, protection, and the gathering of wisdom across generations.
The Healing Calabash is our vessel for restoration.
We are devoted to helping Black women reclaim balance in body, mind, and spirit through holistic healing practices rooted in both science and ancestral knowledge. Our work brings together clinical herbalism, nutrition, medical astrology, hypnotherapy, and spiritual traditions of the African diaspora to support deep and lasting transformation.
We believe the body holds wisdom.
The patterns of our eating, our metabolism, our stress, and our cravings are not signs of personal failure. They are messages. Messages from a body shaped by history, environment, trauma, and inherited survival strategies.
Healing begins when we learn to listen.
At The Healing Calabash, we help women rebuild a relationship with their bodies that is grounded in compassion, knowledge, and empowerment. Through herbal medicine, nutritional guidance, subconscious healing, and astrological insight, we support women in releasing patterns that no longer serve them and cultivating new rhythms of nourishment and care.
Healing is not only individual. It is collective.
True wellness is collective. Our ancestors understood that healing happens in community through shared wisdom, ritual, storytelling, and mutual care. That is why The Healing Calabash is also a space for gathering. We create opportunities for healers, teachers, and community members to learn together, support one another, and restore traditions that colonial systems tried to erase.
We honor the lineage of African diasporic healing traditions such as Hoodoo and the spiritual wisdom carried through Ifá and the Orisa traditions. These practices remind us that we are never alone. We walk with the guidance of those who came before us.
Our mission is simple but profound:
To help Black women come home to their bodies.
To restore the sacred relationship between nourishment and healing.
To reconnect modern wellness with ancestral wisdom.
And to build communities where our healing becomes possible, sustainable, and celebrated.
The calabash is open.
Inside it are the medicines of the earth, the wisdom of the ancestors, and the possibility of a new story for our health and our lives.
Welcome to The Healing Calabash.
Training & Experience
Past Training
Community Nutrition Courses with Frank Wyatt, ND (Philadelphia, PA)
BA, African-American Studies/Religion (Temple University, PA)
MLA, Africana Religions (Temple University, PA)
Clinical Hypnotherapy & Life Coaching (Southwest Institute of Healing Arts, AZ)
Community Herbalism and Herbal First Aid Training (Philadelphia, PA)
Recent & On-going/Current Training
MS, Integrative Health and Nutrition: Concentration in Herbal Medicine (current - Maryland University of Integrative Health, MD)
Spiritualist Training with Baba Richard Onque (NJ)
Olorisa Training & Classes with Egbe Imodoye Orisa led by Baba Solomon
Experience
Community organizer with the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement (www.freethelandMXGM.org)
Executive Director of the Orisa Community Development Corporation (www.orisacdc.org)
17 years working in alternative education (K-12+)
9 years in non-profit program and senior management