As You Are

A Curated Support Group Exclusively for Black Women

Presented by Shari A. Loveday,
Founder & CEO of
Ayané Consulting

As a Minister, Educator, Author, Speaker, Coach, and Consultant, I am deeply invested in the well-being of others. I didn't experience healing, growth, and freedom in a vacuum. Mental, Emotional, Spiritual, and Social health all played significant roles in my freedom process. I try to takes care of all that makes me human; my body, mind, and spirit, and I find freedom by creating space to experience healing for my whole self. That is why I create healing spaces for other women.

If You're Anything Like Me...

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You've experienced

church hurt/spiritual abuse
no space for your emotions
bearing the weight of too much
doing what you HAVE to do rather than what you love to do
racism, sexism, and other 'isms'
no rest
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angry black woman sterotype

You're tired of the isolation. You need space. Places where you are understood, seen, valued, and where there are shared experiences.

That's Why We Feel So Burnt Out

We are overwhelmed by constant stress of

masking,
making ourselves small,
code-switching,
worrying,
and overworking

We long for sisterhood and strategy and joy and love and Black girl magic!

We're Not Just Tired. We're Sick and Tired!

Black women experience higher rates of

stress
anxiety and depression
fibroids
maternal & infant mortality
cardiovascular disease
autoimmune disease

For every high-performing black woman, there is a cost!

Ashley Jones

Cervical Cancer

Dee Francis

Maternal/Infant Mortality

Alexa Young

Anxiety/Depression

Roberta Rose

Autoimmune Disease

So what can we do?

We can harness the collective power of Black Girl Magic for ourselves. We can gather meaningfully to encourage, strategize, lift, brainstorm, see one another, and craft lives we can love. We can give each other what we don't get at our jobs and sometimes, in our homes, so that we can go back to those spaces better, stronger, smarter.
We can gather.
And you can come just
As You Are!

Come As You Are

Need a Step Beyond a Support Group?

As You Are Elite is an intimate, growth collective designed just for you!

Personal Alignment

You know the feeling of alignment as well as you know the feeling of misalignment. As You Are Elite will provide the opportunity to find alignment again.

Strategic Planning

Each woman will leave with a 90-day action plan, strategically crafted in six 90-minute collectives and one 60-minute 1 to 1 coaching session with Shari.

Dedicated Space

One of the things we crave most is space, to feel, to laugh, to think, to pause, to act in our own best interests. Collectives are intimate, so every woman gets the space she needs.

Goal
Setting

Setting healthy short or long tern goals from survival mode is nearly impossible. As You Are Elite will enable you to pause survival mode long enough to transition into thriving; body, mind, & spirit.

Authentic Connection

When Black women work in high-stress, unwelcoming, inequitable environments, I think we mourn our authenticity the most. As You Are Elite is a space for you to be precisely as you are.

Camaraderie & Support

As You Are Elite empowers Black women to be their best because it harnesses the collective power that happens when Black women gather, share, encourage, counsel, and affirm one another.