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bell + brew 🌿

Still reflecting on the meaningful conversations shared at bell + brew Sunday. Being part of an event honoring bell hooks’ life and work was both inspiring and affirming.

Thank you to the Narrative Circle (@thenarrativecircle) for creating such a sacred space and to every woman who contributed their voice, perspective, and presence to this powerful event.

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Thanks to @thenarrativecircle for the invitation to introduce Delicately Powerful: From The Heart & Spirit of A Black Woman during @thenarrativecircle belle+brew panel discussion
in Atlanta.

Creating safe spaces for Black Women to pour and receive is sacred and intentional work. Thank You @nikki_bramwell @letchange_changeme @thenikitahaynie @dhayanalejandrina @_thezenrn and EVERYONE for what you bring to our community!

Delicately Powerful is live on Amazon! - stay tuned for when and where the first book signing will be held in Downtown Orlando!

Good job on the book!! I was especially struck by the weightlifter/spotter story - a real standout! 🏋🏿‍♀️
J.W. Seminole County

DM me for purchase link

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👋🏽 MEET YOUR bell + brew PANELIST 🎙️

Eunice Louis-Jacques

Registered nurse, writer, and certified yoga instructor, @_thezenrn blends sound, breathwork, and journaling to help people write and heal from a nervous system that finally feels safe enough to be honest.

Eunice will speak to the body’s role in healing — how safety, breath, and rest make space for the kind of honest writing bell hooks called us to.

Join us as we sit in conversation about love, legacy, and what it means to write ourselves whole — honoring bell hooks and All About Love.

🗓️ Sunday, October 18, 2026 · 1-4pm

📍 @morehousecee at The Interlock, Atlanta, GA

Tickets at the link in bio 🔗

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MEET YOUR bell + brew PANEL 🎙️✨

Five women. One room. A conversation about love, legacy, and what it means to write ourselves whole.

Say hello 👋🏽 to the voices joining us for bell + brew: A Toast to Black Women Who Write Our World, honoring bell hooks and All About Love:

Dhayana Alejandrina: @dhayanalejandrina is a multidisciplinary writer, poet, and founder of @thecreativewritinghour, Dhayana uses poetry, mentorship, and workshops to help others reconnect with their voice and the healing power of storytelling.

Eunice Louis-Jacques: @_thezenrn is a registered nurse, writer, and certified yoga instructor, Eunice blends sound, breathwork, and journaling to help people write and heal from a nervous system that finally feels safe enough to be honest.

Nikita Haynie: @thenikitahaynie is the founder of @writeonblackgirl and 2025 Inspiring Joy Shine Legacy Award recipient, Nikita is a writer, author, and educator devoted to amplifying Black women’s voices and stories across genres and generations.

Barbara Chandler: @ourseatourtable is a cultural arts educator, community historian, and host of the Our Seat Our Table podcast, Barbara founded @barbarachandlerproductions and has spent two decades building community power through storytelling, equity, and civic leadership across Central Florida.

Dominique Marcus, LCSW, Panelist: @dsmarcus_ is the founder and Lead Therapist @contemporaryhealingspaces, Dominique creates culturally responsive therapeutic spaces that help Black, Indigenous, and people of color move from limiting labels into genuine self-empowerment and healing.

Over the next few days, we’ll introduce you to each of them one on one — but for now, meet the full panel.

🗓️ Sunday, October 18, 2026 · 1-4pm
📍 @morehousecee in Atlanta, GA

Tickets at the link in bio 🔗

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A sweet thank you to @twobestfriendscafe for having Creative Stillness be a part of their beautiful and intimate space, alongside side the talented @_thezenrn and @mikhaylawrites ✨

One thing I’ve learned throughout the years as a facilitator in creative spaces is that it’s not about the multitude of people who show up, but about the multitude of ways we open our hearts to those who do, to each other.

There is never a day that I’m not grateful to God for the people and places He continues to place me in.

Here’s to the beautiful spaces that remind us that sometimes, an open heart, and a few good souls are all we need to create something meaningful.

Stay tuned for more to come with @twobestfriendscafe ✨

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The Silent Witness ✍🏽✨

Last weekend, we gathered for a half-day writing retreat rooted in presence, creativity, and connection, and we’re still carrying the magic of it with us.

Deep gratitude to every amazing woman who joined our facilitators, @letchange_changeme , @_thezenrn , and our founder, @dhayanalejandrina , in creating a space where we could slow down, listen inward, write freely, and simply be. Thank you for trusting us, showing up as you were, and making the room what it became.

There is something powerful about nurturing our creativity in spaces that allow us to create from safety, not survival. Spaces where we don’t have to perform, prove, protect, or hold it all together. Spaces where we can be witnessed in all that we are; and witness one another with tenderness, curiosity, and care.

A heartfelt shoutout to our incredible sponsors (@morehousecee , @actuallyc_rious , @portraitcoffee and @gatekeeperpresspublishing) who helped make The Silent Witness possible. Your support helped us create room for women to gather, exhale, and reconnect with their creative voices 🫂

And to everyone who attended: What are you taking with you?

Share one thing you took away from The Silent Witness in the comments, or tell us the action you’re committing to because of what you discovered in that room.

Let’s keep witnessing one another.
Let’s keep creating from safety.
Let’s keep making room for what wants to emerge. ✨

#TheSilentWitness #WritingRetreat #WomenWhoCreate #CreateFromSafety #theCWH 📸 @ashtonavocado

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This past Saturday, @letchange_changeme, @_thezenrn, and I had the joy of facilitating The Silent Witness, a beautiful half-day writing retreat in one of @morehousecee’s stunning spaces sponsored by @actuallyc_rious, @thecreativewritinghour , @gatekeeperpresspublishing and @portraitcoffee!

A little sneak peek on film reflecting the sisterhood, the togetherness, the tenderness—and all that was felt.

There are moments when women gather, and something sacred becomes possible and everyone who showed up truly made it feel very special!

Still basking in the magic of this gathering✨

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Feeling inspired and energized after the incredible Silent Witness Writers workshop today! ✍🏽 I’m so grateful for the creativity, courage, and community in the room, and for the reminder that our stories deserve to be told. We had a full day of conversation, writing sprints, journaling and a sound bowl that left us all relaxed and rejuvenated.

Cheers to writing boldly, honestly, and lifting each other up. Thanks to @_thezenrn @letchange_changeme @dhayanalejandrina and @thecreativewritinghour for hosting a fabulous event! #writeyourtruth 📚

#silentwitness #womenwriters #writersworkshop #writersofinstagram

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There’s still time join us tomorrow for a creative reset..
📅 Sunday, August 23
🚪 Doors 12:30 PM
🎟️ FREE admission
RSVP at the link in bio

Meet the artists guiding us through Sunday’s opening Creative Stillness experience:

DHAYANA ALEJANDRINA
Poet, author, writing mentor, community builder and curator of Creative Stillness. Dhayana’s work explores inner growth, culture, identity and healing—and asks us to reconsider what might really be happening when the words stop coming.

EUNICE LOUIS-JACQUES
A contributing writer in Creative Stillness, Registered Nurse and certified yoga instructor. Eunice brings her creative practice together with her understanding of the nervous system, using breath work, yoga and sound to explore relaxation as something we can actually learn and practice.

MIKHAYLA ROBINSON SMITH
Poet, essayist, and spoken word artist whose work is rooted in truth-telling, liberation, cultural memory and community. Mikhayla will share her poetry and guide our closing Finding Stillness conversation.

✨Together, they’ll bring us through words, sound, reflection and conversation as we ask:

What if our creative blocks have something to tell us?

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Come experience Creative Stillness with us.
Sunday, August 23 | Doors 12:30 PM | FREE w/ RSVP 🔗Link in bio
#twobestfriendscafe #atlantacreatives #bipocartists #blackwriters #soundbowlmeditation

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Can you hear your creativity over everything else?

The deadlines. The notifications. The scrolling. The constant pressure to make, produce, respond and keep moving.
What happens when we give ourselves permission to get still?

On Sunday, August 23, we’re introducing Creative Stillness: An Artist Residency at Two Best Friends Café & Books, inspired by Dhayana Alejandrina’s anthology Creative Stillness.

We’re inviting writers, musicians, visual artists, filmmakers, photographers, designers, performers, makers and curious creatives into an afternoon designed to help us slow down and reconnect with our creative practice.

✨ Spoken word + excerpts
✨ Sound bowl meditation
✨ An uninterrupted Creative Hour
✨ A conversation about what our creative blocks may actually be trying to tell us

No pressure to produce something brilliant.
Just room to get quiet enough to hear what’s already there.

Creative Stillness
An Artist Residency at Two Best Friends Café & Books
📅 Sunday, August 23
🚪 Doors open at 12:30 PM
🎟️ FREE w/ RSVP
Find your creative stillness.
RSVP at the link in bio.

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gentle reminder that saying yes to yourself can also be saying yes to a community that’s waiting for you to dream bigger and fear less.

thinking about how beautiful it was to celebrate Creative Stillness at @wordupbooks with dear friends and the @thecreativewritinghour and @dominicanwriters community.

a reminder that we are not self-made: we are community-made. every version of ourselves is shaped by the people who witness our becoming, hold space for our growth, and remind us of who we are when we forget.

#creativestillnessanthology #theCWH
#newbookstoread 📸 @pho.angel

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