My Roots

Let Me Introduce Myself

My name is Kamau Adachi. I am a lover of music, dancer, choreographer,  writer, poet, healer and medicine wombman. 

 

I  was born in Elizabethtown, NC and raised in Fayetteville, NC. My father was a proud Vietnam veteran and my mother was a medical supervisor for the Department of Defense.

 

Both of my parents, Harold and Tre (as she was affectionately called)  loved music and dancing, so I heard a lot of classic soul and r&b music, throughout my entire childhood. I loved dancing at an early age, and my parents encouraged me to be active in the arts. I was enrolled in ballet and tap dance, and I was a cheerleader all before the age of 9. I loved to skate and my father, being a black belt in Taekwondo, taught my mother, brother, and I self-defense.

 

After my parents divorced, I still loved to dance and entered dance contests with my brother, created a band with my brother and Cousin Derrick, and went to every dance party that my school sponsored. I would take guitar lessons, play the timbales, and was a cheerleader for my highschool for 3 years.

 

After graduating highschool, I was accepted to attend UNC at Chapel Hill and declined due to my mother's battle with Lupus.

I was too embarrassed to tell my mother that I wanted to become a dancer instead of a nurse, so I went to Fayetteville Technical Community College , where I was accepted into the RN program. I took one year of nursing related courses and training, before quitting to complete and earn a cosmetology license and certification in day care fundamentals.

 

During this time, my interest in black history studies and spirituality would start.  I researched and studied all that I could.

 

In 1992, I met and married my first husband, and while pregnant with our son, I enrolled in a school for writers who wanted to write children's books. I was accepted and declined, because I really wanted to write poetry and I entered my essay just to see if people would be interested in what I had to say.  So my poetry journey began. I sat down one day and wrote a play, and that's the moment that I knew writing was something I wanted to pursue full time.  I wrote poems every day.

I would attend every local poetry reading, create poetry booklets, sell personalized poetry, was invited to events to share my poetry, appeared as a guest at one of our local radio stations, WIDU, and self-published 2 chapbooks (small books of poetry).

 

After giving birth to my son, I started a home daycare.  My husband and I divorced 3 years later. I closed my daycare down and started working odd jobs to take care of myself and my son. I danced with a dance company for a while, Shea-ra Niche and the Cultural Dance Ensemble, I started studying different faiths and religions, and kept writing.

 

Eventually, I would land a job and career with the Department of Defense, just like my mother in 2000 and in 2012,  I met and married my second husband.

 

After being in survival mode for so many years, surviving 2 violent relationships, surviving breast cancer, I would receive news that one of sons had been shot and paralyzed.  During that difficult time in my life, I had a spiritual awakening and my life changed.

 

After 25 years of working for the government, 17 years that counted towards my time of service,  I chose to retire early on 30 June 2025.

I made a decision that after retirement, I would finally start my dream business, a space for healing through all of the medicine that I knew. Music, dance, poetry, and spiritual alignment are the avenues that I use and still use for my own healing journey.

Now, with my knowledge, experience, and healing medicine, I choose to share all of that with you, my community.

 

I want to encourage each of you to start your healing journey in a new way. If you feel stuck or if what you have tried is no longer working for you, I pray that this space will be a starting place on your journey.

 

Connect and Heal offers different services to meet your healing journey right where you are. Browse my services offered and let's connect and heal together.

 

After the day I made a determination to start this community of healing, my mother transitioned on 12 June 2025. Both of my parents are gone now and it has been challenging for me. My spiritual practice has given me enough strength to keep going and hearing my mother say to me, "if you don't do it now, when will you do it?" I am determined to honor my dreams and my mother.

 

Thank you for reading my story and I hope that you will be comfortable sharing your story with me, so that we can face the past, face any trauma, and come out aligned and feeling better about who we are.

 

Be Well, be Great, be Beautiful because You Are. It is so! Ase.

 

Sincerely,

 

Kamau Adachi

 

**The background theme for Connect & Heal is a picture of my parents Harold and Tre in 1968, a few months before I was born. My beginning.  They are now my Divine Protectors, Guiding Force, and Loving Light. I love and miss you both dearly.