Come Home to Yourself
Sometimes you can feel that something within you is asking for your attention, even when you don't have the words for it yet.
You may notice patterns that keep showing up, feel disconnected from yourself, or wonder how your experiences, relationships, culture, and the expectations you've carried have shaped the woman you are today.
Lakay Within is a culturally grounded, trauma-informed wellness and personal growth experience created for women seeking a deeper connection with themselves, with a special focus on the lived experiences of Haitian women and women of color.
Here, we begin with one guiding truth: there is nothing inherently wrong with you.
The beliefs, responses, and ways you have learned to protect yourself have a history. Lakay Within creates space to become curious about that history, understand yourself with more compassion, and begin noticing what you may want to carry differently.
This is an invitation to slow down, listen inward, and reconnect with the person who has always been there within.
There are different ways to begin your journey home, depending on the kind of support you are looking for and where you are right now.
Lakay Within: The Guided Journey
A 10-month guided journey back to yourself.
There are parts of ourselves we learn to quiet over time. We adapt to what is expected of us. We become the strong one, the responsible one, the person others can depend on. We learn ways of protecting ourselves that once made sense, even when those same patterns begin to feel heavy later in life.
The Guided Journey gives you time and space to understand those parts of your story and how they continue to shape the relationship you have with yourself today.
Over 10 months, we move through five pillars that build upon one another. We begin by understanding your story, then move toward compassion, reconnection, self-trust, and eventually learning what it looks like to live from within.
Understanding My Story
How did I become who I am?
Explore the experiences, relationships, messages, cultural expectations, learned patterns, and protective responses that have helped shape you.
The Five Pillars
Compassion Toward Myself
As you begin to understand where your patterns come from, we make room for compassion. You begin practicing a different way of relating to yourself, with less judgment and more curiosity, care, and understanding.
Trusting Myself
Explore your voice, decisions, boundaries, and inner knowing while learning what it means to move through uncertainty without losing connection with yourself.
Reconnecting With Myself
What do I feel? What do I need? What matters to me?
We create space to hear yourself again. Your needs, your values, your desires, your emotions, and the parts of you that may have become quieter beneath responsibilities and expectations.
Living From Within
The final part of the journey is about bringing what you have learned into your everyday life. The awareness, reflection, compassion, and trust you have practiced become tools you can continue returning to as life unfolds.
You Will Be Supported Along the Way
This is not a journey you are expected to figure out alone.
Throughout the 10 months, we will meet twice each month for 60-minute live virtual gatherings on Tuesdays at 7:00 PM Central through Google Meet. These gatherings will include teaching, guided reflection, conversation, and space to explore what is coming up as you move through each pillar.
Between our gatherings, you will have guided meditations, journal reflections and downloadable PDFs, weekly “This Week's Invitation” practices to bring the work into your everyday life, and trauma-informed psychoeducation when it supports what we are exploring.
That education may include understanding the nervous system, trauma, childhood experiences, learned patterns, relationships, cultural messages, and protective responses.
You will also have access to a private WhatsApp community where conversation, reflection, encouragement, and connection can continue between our live gatherings.
Most importantly, you are doing this alongside women who are also learning more about themselves. Their stories will be different from yours, yet there can be something powerful about being seen, hearing what another woman has discovered, and realizing you are not the only one carrying certain experiences.
A Journey With a Beginning, a Middle, and an Ending
Lakay Within is offered in cohorts so that we can move through the journey together.
Each cohort travels through the five pillars over 10 months. This allows us to build upon what we have already explored, create connection within the group, and give each part of the journey the time it deserves.
At the end of the 10 months, you graduate from the Guided Journey. You will continue to have access to your journey materials for three additional months, giving you time to revisit the meditations, reflections, and resources as you integrate what you have learned.
Investment
$3,500 for the complete 10-month Guided Journey.
Pay in full or choose 10 monthly payments of $350
Enrollment is a commitment to the complete 10-month experience
Lakay Within: The Reflection Experience
If you are ready to begin looking inward but prefer to do it privately, the Reflection Experience gives you a place to start.
Through five connected experiences, you will explore what you have been carrying, your relationship with rest, the expectations that have shaped you, and what it might look like to create more room for yourself.
You have six months to move through the experience in a way that works for you. Pause when you need to, repeat a meditation, return to a reflection, or take some time away before continuing. There is no need to rush through the work.
Begin privately. Move at your own pace.
Your Five Experiences
Arriving
Slow down and create enough space to notice yourself.
Carrying Too Much
Begin naming what you have been holding and how carrying so much has felt in your life.
Rest Without Guilt
Explore your relationship with rest and what comes up when you allow yourself to pause.
Identity Beyond Expectations
Reflect on the roles, expectations, and messages that have influenced who you believe you are supposed to be.
Becoming Home Again
Bring together what you have noticed throughout the journey and consider what you want to continue carrying forward.
What's Included
5 short guided lessons with warm, reflective guidance to help you explore each part of the journey.
5 calming guided meditation videos to create space to slow down, settle, and listen inward.
5 journal reflection PDFs with thoughtful prompts to help you explore what you are noticing.
Six months of access, giving you time to revisit the lessons, return to the meditations, and continue reflecting on what comes up along the way.
Investment
$97 one-time payment
Includes six months of access.
LAKAY WITHIN COMMUNITY
A free place to begin.
You may be curious about Lakay Within and want some time to experience the community before deciding whether you are ready for something deeper.
You are welcome here.
The free Lakay Within Community on WhatsApp is a place to connect, reflect, and begin turning some of your attention back toward yourself alongside other women.
Inside, we explore monthly themes through reflection prompts, conversations, occasional voice-note meditations, and simple invitations to notice what is happening within you and around you.
There is no expectation to have everything figured out before you enter. Come as you are, participate when something speaks to you, and allow yourself the time to discover what you may need.
Free to join
Not Sure Where to Begin?
You may recognize that you are ready for something, but still be unsure which kind of support fits where you are right now.
We can spend some time talking about what is bringing you here, what you are looking for, and whether the Guided Journey, The Reflection Experience, Lakay Within Community, or another form of support may be the best fit.
Meet Your Guide
Hi, I'm Aurelie,
I'm a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, speaker, podcast host, and the creator of Lakay Within.
Over the years, I've had the privilege of sitting with people as they made sense of their stories, explored painful experiences, and slowly began reconnecting with themselves. Again and again, I noticed something important: so many of us believe there is something wrong with us, when in reality we are often responding to what we have lived through, what we have learned, and what we have carried.
As a Haitian woman, I also understand how culture, family, responsibility, and expectations can shape the way we relate to ourselves. We learn to be strong, to keep going, and to carry what needs to be carried. Yet many of us are never taught how to slow down, understand ourselves with compassion, or make space for our own needs.
That is why I created Lakay Within.
It is a space where women can become curious about their stories, reconnect with themselves, and discover that healing does not begin with becoming someone new. It often begins by understanding the person you have always been.
My role is not to tell you who you are. My role is to walk alongside you, offer guidance, ask thoughtful questions, share what I've learned through my clinical work and lived experience, and create a space where you can begin trusting your own inner wisdom.
There is nothing you need to prove here.
You are welcome exactly as you are.
Lakay Within: The Guided Journey
10-month guided cohort
Understand how you became who you are, and begin choosing how you want to live moving forward.
The Reflection Experience gives you a chance to slow down and look at how you've been living, what you've been carrying, and how much room you've been making for yourself. Through five guided lessons, you'll explore the expectations and responsibilities that have shaped your life, your relationship with rest, and how to begin reconnecting with your own needs.
You have spent years being the strong one, putting other people's needs first, or doing what was expected of you. Over time, it can become difficult to recognize what you actually want, what you need, or why certain patterns keep showing up in your life.
Over 10 months, you will move from understanding the patterns that shaped you to relating to yourself with more compassion, trusting your own voice, and making choices that feel more connected to who you are
Through five connected pillars, you'll work toward:
✓ Understanding My Story: Recognizing how your experiences, relationships, and cultural expectations have shaped you.
✓ Carrying Too Much: Recognizing what you've been holding and how it's affecting you.
✓Compassion Toward Myself: Learning to respond to yourself with more understanding and less judgment.
✓ Reconnecting With Myself: Becoming more aware of your emotions, needs, values, and desires.
✓ Trusting Myself: Practicing using your voice, making decisions, and honoring your boundaries.
✓ Living From Within: Bringing what you've learned into everyday life so your choices reflect what matters to you.
We meet twice a month for live virtual gatherings, with guided meditations, journal reflections, weekly practices, and a private WhatsApp community to support your experience between sessions.
You'll also have three additional months of access to your journey materials after graduation.
$3,500
or 10 monthly payments of $350
Choose Your Path
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Lakay Within: The Reflection Experience
A place to begin listening to yourself again, at your own pace.
The Reflection Experience gives you a chance to slow down and look at how you've been living, what you've been carrying, and how much room you've been making for yourself. Through five guided lessons, you'll explore the expectations and responsibilities that have shaped your life, your relationship with rest, and how to begin reconnecting with your own needs.
By the end of this self paced experience, you will have a clearer understanding of what you have been carrying, what you need, and how to begin reconnecting with yourself with more compassion and intention.
✓ Arriving: Slowing down and noticing how you're feeling.
✓ Carrying Too Much: Recognizing what you've been holding and how it's affecting you.
✓ Rest Without Guilt: Understanding your relationship with rest.
✓ Identity Beyond Expectations: Exploring who you are beyond the roles you've been given.
✓ Becoming Home Again: Bringing what you've learned together and considering what you want to carry forward.
Each lesson includes a guided meditation and a downloadable reflection journal to help you explore the topic in your own life. You'll have six months of access to the five lessons and meditation videos, with reflection journals you can download and keep.
$97
Lakay Within Community
A free place to begin
Join the WhatsApp community for monthly reflections, conversations, and encouragement.
✓ Monthly reflection prompts
✓ Community conversations
✓ Guided voice notes
✓ Free to join
Free
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No. Lakay Within is an educational wellness experience designed to support self-reflection, emotional wellness, and personal growth. While it is created and facilitated by a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, participation does not create a therapist-client relationship and is not a substitute for psychotherapy or mental health treatment.
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If you're looking for ongoing guidance, live support, and a community to journey alongside, The Guided Journey is the best fit.
If you prefer to begin privately and move at your own pace, The Reflection Experience allows you to explore the work on your own schedule.
If you're simply curious about Lakay Within or want a gentle place to begin, the Free Community is a wonderful first step.
If you're still unsure, you're welcome to schedule a conversation so we can explore which option feels right for you.
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No. Lakay Within is rooted in my lived experience as a Haitian woman and often reflects the cultural values, stories, and experiences that have shaped my work. While Haitian women may see many of their experiences reflected in this space, women from all backgrounds are welcome if they feel connected to the mission and approach of Lakay Within.
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Absolutely. Many women find that Lakay Within complements the work they are already doing in therapy by providing additional opportunities for reflection, education, and community. Because every situation is different, you're encouraged to discuss participation with your therapist if you have questions about what feels most supportive for you.
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Life happens. If you're unable to attend a live gathering, you'll still have access to the resources, guided reflections, and materials shared throughout the journey. The live conversations are an important part of the experience, so I encourage participants to attend whenever possible, but occasional absences are understood.
Questions You May Be Wondering
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The Guided Journey is offered in cohorts throughout the year. Enrollment opens before each new cohort begins. If enrollment is currently closed, you can join the interest list to be notified when the next cohort opens.
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At the end of the journey, you'll have three additional months of access to your materials so you can revisit the lessons, meditations, and reflections as you continue integrating what you've learned. After that, access to the course materials ends, and you'll be invited to explore future Lakay Within offerings designed for graduates.
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That's completely okay. Many women begin with the Free Community or The Reflection Experience before deciding they are ready for deeper support. There is no right place to start, only the place that feels right for you today.
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Lakay Within is for women who are ready to understand themselves more deeply and reconnect with who they are beneath the expectations, responsibilities, and roles they have carried for so long.
Many women who join find themselves saying things like:
I spend so much time taking care of everyone else that I've lost touch with myself.
I know something needs to change, but I'm not sure where to begin.
I want to understand why I keep repeating certain patterns.
I long for a space where I don't have to have everything figured out.
I'm ready to slow down, reflect, and care for myself differently.
You don't need to have all the answers before you begin. You simply need a willingness to become curious about yourself and open to the journey.
Disclaimer
Important Information
Lakay Within is an educational wellness experience designed to support self-reflection, emotional wellness, and personal growth. While it is created and facilitated by a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, participation does not create a therapist-client relationship and is not psychotherapy.
Lakay Within is not a substitute for individualized mental health treatment, crisis services, or medical care. If you are experiencing a mental health emergency or believe you need clinical support, please contact a qualified mental health professional or your local emergency services.
Participation in Lakay Within is voluntary. Each person is encouraged to engage with the material at a pace that feels supportive while honoring their own emotional well-being.