The Healing Power of Music & Play
The Freedom Pages — Vol. 1, Issue 7 This week’s issue is a love letter to music as my first healer. I reflect on my lifelong relationship with music. From childhood moments recording cassette tapes, self-taught piano lessons during the pandemic, to picking up the guitar and rediscovering the joy of improvisation and play.
Key highlights include:
Music as a Somatic and Ancestral Practice
Exploring how sound soothes the nervous system, invites healing, and opens spiritual portals across time and lineage. Letting go of perfection and relearning to play and trusting what the body remembers.The Griot Within
A reflection on cultural memory and creativity through reflections of my own experiences in the movies Soul, The Piano Lesson, and Sinners.
This Week’s Guided Meditation:
“Reigniting the Spark of Play”
This guided meditation invites you to reconnect with the divine spark within — the part of you that was never meant to stop playing, creating, or dreaming.
Featuring the “Creation Story” card from Asha Frost’s Sacred Medicine Oracle deck and a channeled message about our original instructions, this practice calls you home to your joy, your rhythm, and your magic.
The Audacity of Choosing the Light
The Freedom Pages — Vol. 1, Issue 6 This week’s issue invites you to consider what it means to let yourself be seen—fully. Not as an idea of who you hope to be one day, not as the version of yourself that’s more “together,” but you, right now.
We reflect on how self-visibility can feel like a risk, especially for those of us who were taught to shrink, stay quiet, or only show our best. But choosing the light means choosing truth. And that begins with how you see you.
Key highlights include:
Reclaiming Your Own Reflection
A meditation on standing in front of the mirror—not for critique, but to witness. To ask, what do I love most about me today? A practice in self-recognition without delay or condition.Self-Love as Daily Practice, Not Performance
An invitation to redefine self-love as something that doesn’t need to be earned. Love that begins in the present moment—not in the past or the imagined future.
Guided Meditation:
“Stepping into the Light”
A mirror-based visualization and body scan practice to reconnect with every part of you—from your feet to your crown. You’ll be guided to notice and name what you love about yourself. Not what’s tolerable. Not what’s improving. What’s already worthy.
A Compassionate Re-parenting of self
The Freedom Pages Vol. 1, Issue 5 A weekly blog by Najmah Ahmad for our healing, learning & collective liberation. This issue reflects on the lifelong, tender work of compassion — especially for ourselves. It explores how perfectionism and the internalized voices of our upbringing shape our adult lives.
Key highlights include:
How compassion becomes a radical act of devotion to ourselves and the younger versions of us still asking to be seen, held, and loved. A reflection on how many of us live on timelines built from scarcity and manufactured urgency, and how that leaves our inner child dragging behind. It offers an invitation to pause, to move at a pace your spirit can sustain, and to redefine healing not as an endpoint but a journey of ongoing care.
This Week’s Anonymous Question: ““How do you define Black Spirituality?”
Guided Meditation: A message from your inner child reminding you that “I just need a minute”. A short visualization practice to listen, hold, and respond to the tender parts of yourself still asking for care.
DMV Study Hall: A curated list of upcoming co-working, healing, learning, creative, and networking events tailored for Black women and people of color across the DMV, and virtual.
This edition sets the tone for future issues, aimed at fostering a community centered on wellness. empowerment and joy. For Black women, and those aligned; seeking connection, inspiration, and liberation through storytelling and shared experiences.
The Integration: Masks off, Gifts on
The Freedom Pages Vol. 1, Issue 4 A weekly blog by Najmah Ahmad for our healing, learning & collective liberation. This issue reflects on the lifelong journey of shedding old masks and reclaiming the scattered pieces of ourselves — an unfolding homecoming to the fullness of who we are, guided by inner knowing, spiritual gifts, and the courageous act of integration.
Key highlights include:
A reflection on how we learn to fragment ourselves to feel safe, accepted, or understood, and the heavy toll this takes on our ability to evolve and be truly seen. It offers an invitation to gather the scattered pieces we’ve left on the shelf and step forward as our whole, unmasked selves — not so everyone can access us, but so we can access ourselves. Along the way, it draws a grounded distinction between healthy boundaries and self-erasure, reminding us that protecting our energy isn’t about hiding who we are, it’s about choosing who is worthy of witnessing it.
This Week’s Anonymous Question: “What has your experience with sisterhood been?”
Guided Meditation: A message for those missing their maternal figure on Mother’s Day
DMV Study Hall: A curated list of upcoming co-working, healing, learning, creative, and networking events tailored for Black women and people of color across the DMV.
This edition sets the tone for future issues, aimed at fostering a community centered on wellness. empowerment and joy. For Black women, and those aligned; seeking connection, inspiration, and liberation through storytelling and shared experiences.
The Game of Life
The Freedom Pages Vol. 1, Issue 3 A weekly blog by Najmah Ahmad for our healing, learning & collective liberation. This issue reflects on navigating life as a sacred, ever-evolving adventure — a cosmic video game where each of us steps in mid-quest, guided by ancestral wisdom, personal experience, and the lessons hidden in every encounter.
Key highlights include:
Reflection on Life as a Sacred Quest- Through the metaphor of a video game, this piece explores how our lives unfold through choice, risk, and connection, reminding us that the path reveals itself as we move forward as we navigate life’s levels, face challenges, and spiral upward toward deeper awareness and becoming.
This Week’s Anonymous Question: “How do you cope with lack of community?”
Guided Meditation: Take a 6 minute time-out and receive a message from your higher self.
DMV Study Hall: A curated list of upcoming co-working, healing, learning, creative, and networking events tailored for Black women and people of color across the DMV.
This edition sets the tone for future issues, aimed at fostering a community centered on wellness. empowerment and joy. For Black women, and those aligned; seeking connection, inspiration, and liberation through storytelling and shared experiences.
Quantum Leaping
The Freedom Pages Vol. 1, Issue 2 A weekly blog by Najmah Ahmad for our healing, learning & collective liberation. This issue draws inspiration from the 90s sci-fi show Quantum Leap to explore what it means to wake up in a completely new timeline; one where the old roles, identities, and expectations no longer apply.
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Reflection on Identity & Reinvention- The piece dives into the tension of being between an old & new life when everything has changed, but still feels familiar. It honors the grief of who we used to be and the courage required to step into a new version of ourselves.
This Week’s Anonymous Question: “How do you define Spirit?”
Guided Meditation: Take a 5 minute time-out and dream of co-creating miracles in your life with Spirit.
DMV Study Hall: A curated list of upcoming co-working, healing, learning, creative, and networking events tailored for Black women and people of color across the DMV.
This edition sets the tone for future issues, aimed at fostering a community centered on wellness. empowerment and joy. For Black women, and those aligned; seeking connection, inspiration, and liberation through storytelling and shared experiences.
The Surrender
The Freedom Pages Vol. 1, Issue 1 is the inaugural edition of a weekly blog by Najmah Ahmad, dedicated to exploring healing, learning, and collective liberation. This issue features a reflective essay on 7 days with no TV, social media or reading after reading The Artist’s Way, week 4.
Key highlights include:
Personal Reflections: Insights into the journey of self-discovery and the importance of inner-child healing through stillness & play.
Guided Meditation: Take a 5 minute time-out with a hug from an ancestor.
DMV Study Hall: A curated list of upcoming co-working, healing, learning, creative, and networking events tailored for Black women and people of color across the DMV.
This edition sets the tone for future issues, aimed at fostering a community centered on wellness. empowerment and joy. For Black women, and those aligned; seeking connection, inspiration, and liberation through storytelling and shared experiences.