Welcome to Well & Watered with Zakia
My mission is to equip women of God to be well, fruitful, and effective in life and leadership without burning out. I believe that being well is our birthright and peace is our portion as daughters of the King. It’s time for the fruit of our lives reflect that.
Interesting Facts About Me (the writer)
Born and raised in Philadelphia, PA— mainly by my mother, grandmother, and aunt.
My father is Jamaican, and moved to the U.S. in his 20s. My mother is a Black American whose maternal lineage is from the South. Living with the contrast of two culturally different parents has deeply influenced my perspective on identity.
I grew up as an only child in a low-income, inner-city community (but I have 1 older sister and 2 brothers from my father). This has influenced my faith and worldview.
I was diagnosed with Schizophrenia at the age of 16 and was healed by God without medication. I’m not anti-traditional western medicine, but my journey and testimony has led to a lifelong advocacy for functional medicine and holistic wellbeing.
The mission of Well & Watered is deeply personal to me.
The Baptist Church was my home as a child. While this laid a foundation of faith for me, the intimate relationship I have with God was developed in the world, and through supernatural encounters with Jesus in places where some might call me a hypocrite. From those encounters, I was led to know Him more and study His infallible word— the Bible.
Why Well & Watered Exists
To resurrect embodied peace and wellbeing in the world, through women.
Hi love, I'm Zakia— the writer behind this newsletter and steward of Well & Watered.
Growing up in a Christian household, the Word of God was my foundation, but I rarely saw the fruit or the promises of the faith in the lives of the women around me.
Without fully understanding God’s heart, promises, covenant, or what it means to be well, I carried resentment toward Him. Yet deep down, I craved to know His Truth.
After over a decade of rebellion— battling depression, anxiety, menstrual dysfunction, and a severe mental health diagnosis— I reached the end of my proverbial self-help rope in 2020 and journeyed back into covenant relationship with Jesus Christ.
But that was just the beginning.
It wasn’t until I had a supernatural encounter with God on the side of a mountain in Peru during the summer of 2022, just a few short weeks after arriving in the Sacred Valley to integrate from a 9-day Ayahuasca retreat in the heart of the Amazon Rainforest, that I fully surrendered my life and my body to Him.
That encounter became the pivotal turning point where I began moving from a wounded girl to a whole woman of God. From resentment, unrepentance, and rebellion to a covenant relationship with the Lord. My life and wellbeing are the manifestation of His miracle.
Within less than 2 years following this experience, God completely healed and delivered me from anxiety, depression and burnout, restored my faith and familial relationships, and renewed my well-being; emotionally and spiritually.
Purely from the results of His power, grace, and my faith in action.
For the first time in my life, I’ve come to know Him as God the Father, Healer, Friend, and Redeemer, while accepting Jesus as The Way, The Truth, and The Light.
They say those who wander aren’t lost, but the truth is, sometimes we are. I thank God for finding and meeting me exactly where I was, and providing a way out.
The peace, joy, and contentment I sought through striving and searching to no end, could only be found in His presence and through His Grace.
My mission and fervent prayer is for every woman to know this measure of peace and restoration are available to her, too. Woman of God, Peace is your inheritance.
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