Alright – so today we’ve got the honor of introducing you to Nomi Lifowè. We think you’ll enjoy our conversation, we’ve shared it below.

Nomi, thanks for taking the time to share your stories with us today. Do you wish you had started sooner?

To be honest I am glad I embarked on my creative career later rather than sooner. I can’t bring myself to ever regret the time I spent helping out as much as I did with my niece in the first few years of her life, I am so appreciative of the space her mom allows me to have in her life!
Plus maturity, if I started earlier I feel like I would have not been as confident as I am now.

Nomi, before we move on to more of these sorts of questions, can you take some time to bring our readers up to speed on you and what you do?

Writing a children’s book has been mulling on my mind for years. The idea came to me after a lullaby I wrote for my niece. My goal was to create a book that introduces gentle parenting to children in the Black community from a young age.
Although my footprint is tiny, I hope that through my literary works I can help to eradicate the generational trauma that is so prevalent in our community.
It is so important for our children to how how loved and supported they are unconditionally and I am so proud of the contribution I am making towards making this a reality for our upcoming generation.

Learning and unlearning are both critical parts of growth – can you share a story of a time when you had to unlearn a lesson?

Not a lesson but a belief that I had to unlearn was that “You are dumb and won’t amount to anything”. I grew up constantly being told this from my parents following my CSA abuses and it was later parroted by my siblings.
I realized that repeating this belief to myself was preventing me from growing, and from taking the risks.
I started doing and listening to affirmations 24/7 to counteract these belief, at first I felt as profoundly stupid as I have been told all my life I was to even think I could be something other than dumb. But little by little I felt this core belief change.
I still struggle with this belief, but I am in a better place than before when I decided to challenge it.

What do you find most rewarding about being a creative?

For me it is has been my niece’s reaction with whom I love as my own. Seeing her reaction to my works makes it so worthwhile for me and on the ego side of things the happiness I get when she expresses her pride over anything artistic I do – there is no greater joy!

Contact Info:

• Website: www.nomilifowe.com/
• Instagram: www.instagram.com/doyounomi/
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/nomim