values: a new offering

how we remember ourselves

Yesterday I announced a new offering for my coaching business. I’ve been planning to share it for a little while now, and I was so excited for the day to talk about it. And yet, as I scrolled through endless stock photos of Blackfolk on Canva and typed, deleted, re-typed, deleted again… I was drawing a blank for how to market/convey why I think Values Work is important, what I think it actually does, and how it could impact someone’s life. And I was getting more and more frustrated with myself because I couldn’t stop the noise in my mind that said variations of:

Don’t nobody want your lil offering.

Who cares?

Is this the right time?

Will this matter to anyone?

I follow a dope coach, Simone Grace Seol, and she’d say that these kinda thoughts contribute to the many ways we as people (and in particular coaches) hide ourselves and our messaging. I realized the words wouldn’t come because I was probably adding some weird filter over them, trying to maneuver around some non-existent judgement. As if judgement is the worst thing that could happen to someone. (Not by a long shot!)

What could I be hiding? A part of my work that I didn’t want to be seen. The part of me that didn't know how to say it in a way that would pique enough interest.

Old programming doesn’t die just because you’ve done the hard work of facing it.

Then I remember (again) we're not doing that perfectionism bullshit anymore. So I’m just gon’ talk it how I feel it.

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Here’s some information about my Values Power Session. But here’s what you won’t find on that page.

If you know me as a diviner or a Hoodoo Mutha, then you know how much I love the Ancestors. You’d know how much it means to me as a former church girl (more on this another time) to come into Ancestral Remembrance.  It is ancestral remembrance that compelled me to confront and renounce Christianity, a religion that necessitated that I erase myself in order to be accepted by God. Ancestral Remembrance has brought me home to myself, to my lineage, and to my divinity. It has reshaped my entire worldview. 

This particular value is also how I found myself able to stand up to my parents who don’t understand my politics or condone my spiritual traditions. It serves as a barometer for who I can jive with and who will remain an acquaintance or a stranger. My Ancestors and I go together, blood of my blood, bone of my bone, flesh of my flesh. Disregarding them is disregarding myself.

Erasing me, my voice, my impact disrupts the ancestral blessings that would otherwise flow to you by being connected to me.

We will be remembered.

Ancestral Remembrance informs and permeates all that I am, as a Black queer woman and mother, and in my work as a coach and spiritualist. The breadth of my work covers the expanse of remembering ourselves home, remembering ourselves free, remembering ourselves across the vortex of many timelines.

I’ve been calling 2025 the year of Self as Source. It's a 9 year and, if you follow the tarot, we're living in the year of The Hermit. The Hermit is the wise one who withdraws from others to commune with themself. And I believe that one of the things that they're doing inside of this secluded container is holding the fullness of who they are without the pressure or desire for consensus. 

Values work encourages you to agree with yourself and live out your principles with integrity.

But in order to do that, we must first remember. And oftentimes when it comes to values, depending on when and where we enter, we are holding varying, often outdated or conflicting values at once. Some of us are carrying around values that we claim as ours, but actually belong to our parents, our pastors, our friends, our bosses.

Some of us are upholding values that don't resonate or matter to us.

Some of you have done extensive work on their values and convictions, and still may be in a place where those may need to be shifted, updated, and expanded…

…since entering the first second third fourth fifth year of an ongoing pandemic…

…since witnessing that degenerate taking office for a second time…

…since you or a loved one received a diagnosis…

…since beginning or ending an important relationship…

…since becoming a parent…

…since leaving the church and becoming curious about your ancestors and spirituality…

…since we watched our phones in horror when bombs fell on the holy land of Gaza…

…since trans children and adults have been targeted in the US…

…since all eyes have been on the Congo and on Sudan…

…since Elon decided to tamper with our shit and cut off countless people’s livelihoods with these layoffs…

…since we’ve been reminded that community is the only way we survive…

How have your values changed? Do you know what’s MOST important to YOU now? Would you like assistance and support in exploring it? I’m offering a holy container to bring these thoughts forward, to let them breathe, and then find ways for you to move ahead with your convictions intact. 

This is about your worldview and it's important to know this intimately now more than ever.

I would love the opportunity to coach you in a Values Power Session.

75 minutes of being in the work together.

75 minutes of discussing.

75 minutes of pressing.

75 minutes of you looking at you… looking at you… again and again. 

Sign up now. Get on my calendar and let's get to work. 

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Jeida K. Storey be coachin’ and holdin’ space for folks like only a Hoodoo Mutha can. She don’t have time to pretend everything is okay when it isn’t. But she will do her damndest to remind you there’s more to see when you look at your life again. If you want to know more about her coaching services, leave a comment or send an email. Let’s satisfy your curiosity.

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