Would you like to feel happier and more empowered, especially as a woman? Have you ever felt like you just didn’t fit in or found yourself in challenging relationships where you couldn’t be yourself? Lisa continues the conversation today with award-winning author and intuitive and self-worth coach Abiola Abrams. As a first-generation American born to parents from Guyana, South America, Abiola talks about the struggles she felt and the difficulty she had fitting in. She experienced a very different upbringing compared to her neighborhood friends in New York City. She always felt like an outsider. She realized she was a people-pleaser because she so badly wanted to fit in. She explains how so many people do this as a coping mechanism. Women around the world have been told for so long that we are “less than,” and that things are wrong with us. We are made to feel insecure. For most women, this can be stressful and hurtful. It’s challenging until we empower ourselves and realize there is actually nothing wrong. 

Abiola explains how we can begin to cultivate self-acceptance and eventually self-love. Compassion and love are the keys. She also discusses Divine feminine power and energy, as well as the use of Oracle Cards as a form of divination and a way to further hear messages from our higher selves. She talks about the deck she developed, the African Goddess Rising Oracle Deck, and how African culture has so many different types of divination from reading chicken bones to sand fox footprints, tea leaves, sand crabs, and even bibliomancy by using the Bible.  

Her oracle deck is compiled of African Goddesses and Ancestors from various African countries and places where Africans are living throughout the world including the USA, the Caribbean, and South America. Because Africans experienced human trafficking and slavery, they’ve had to hide their traditions. This deck honors the traditions in surprising ways with messages hidden in folklore and meanings meant to be preserved. 

Abiola also discusses her work as a business coach to entrepreneurs and how business and spirituality are not separate. It’s all about love and service, yet you must have conversations about money. It’s about sacred work and moving toward your purpose.  

As a sound healer, she utilizes crystal bowls and guided meditations, as well as drumming. She talks about how drumming was forbidden as it was once a form of communication between tribes. It’s a very empowering way of healing. 

As a teacher and international retreat leader, Abiola empowers women to find freedom from their personal fears, manifest authentic power, and align with purpose. She is the founder of Mawu's Goddess Mystery School and the international Goddess Retreats. She is the author of womanist theology guidebook "African Goddess Initiation: Sacred Rituals for Self-Love, Prosperity, and Joy” and the best-selling  "African Goddess Rising Oracle Deck." Her most recent meditation album is called, "Enter the Goddess Temple." Info: Womanifesting.com