a reintroduction

to adjoainghana

If you remember the 9 DAYS NO FEAR challenge, you will know that it was a 9 day challenge (leading up to my birthday) to listen to the still small voice and get clear about what you want in life.

This challenge held me, and some of you who participated, accountable to what it is that we have dreamt in our heart of hearts.

Image from Pinterest.

During the 9 DAYS NO FEAR challenge I decided that I was going to push aside the limiting voices and settling attitude. I decided to pursue my true passion for Ghana and investing my energy, time, and other resources into my community.

My truth was that I needed to resign from my job to do this.

So I resigned.

I was speaking to a friend and he said something that I had said to myself about why I am doing this.

'“My community needs me and I need my community.”

It’s really that last part for me.

I need my community.

I need my community.

It’s as simple as that.

Technically, I am not without a job completely but this marks the beginning of a new chapter of my life.

A new beginning.

I am not afraid to rebuild and start my life, in many ways, again.

I will remain open.

I will be teachable.

I will practice radical acceptance of my imperfections.

For so long I’ve conformed. I’ve suppressed a lot.

A lot of beliefs, feelings, ideas, and thoughts.

I am tired.

I desire freedom.

Freedom to be who I have always been.

I write this to encourage anyone who has a dream on their heart that they seek to bring to life.

I write this to encourage anyone who also yearns for freedom to be who they are.

adjoainghana began as a simple Instagram page, and then extended into a blog. And I am seeing that it is organically building community.

Many of the people I have engaged with through adjoainghana are people I admire, know and respect in real life, and others I have connected with naturally through shared values and visions.

I thank each of you for helping me have the courage to share more of who I really am with the world.

Regardless of if I am accepted for it or not, the most important thing is that I have found my voice.

adjoainghana is a mindset.

It is about channelling the sense of home, hope, love and purpose I found in Ghana.

Those things are available to us from anywhere we are in the world.

adjoainghana represents …

A return to who you truly are.

A discovery of what gives you purpose.

A reminder that who you are is enough.

A statement that you have always been worthy.

A place to find belonging and community.

I was lost for a long time (I am still finding my way and always will be).

I didn’t know where I fit in or if I even did.

I developed a relationship with God.

I went back to my roots in Ghana.

Back to my village.

Into the arms of my Grandma.

She welcomed me home.

I never questioned who I fundamentally was again.

I was not half of this and half of that.

Not enough of this and not enough of that.

I was just Adjoa.

So please allow me to reintroduce myself.

I am Adjoa. Daughter of parents born 15,000+ km away from each other. I love you Dad. I love you mum.

Granddaughter of Joana Abena Aframa Odua and Nana Kojo Abesse Assan. I am named after my late Grandfather and we share the name Abesse.

Granddaughter of Canecia Imelda Maree Veronica Heaps and Mex Spencer Heaps.

Believer in a God who loves and cares for all. Who is the One who has planted purpose in our hearts and who sees our callings through to completion through His abundant provision.

Sister to all those special people I have met in my journey of 25 years.

An imperfect person who makes mistakes and feels anger, disappointment, distrust, pain, rejection, and resentment.

I see now that trying to live a perfect life or be perceived to live that way is not helping me grow.

Imperfection is teaching me grace for myself and others.

We’re all trying our best.

We often fall short.

But we are trying.

And that’s what counts.

If you’ve made it to the end. Thank you.

Thank you for holding space for my truth.

I want to hold space for yours too.

I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which He has called you. Ephesians 1:18

If you feel like it, comment how you’d like to reintroduce yourself ♥️.

With honesty and love,

✨ Adjoa ✨

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