Women's History Month Featuring Balanta Women: Spectra Amanuri
Spectra is a woman of many interests, skills, and talents; for years now, she has splendidly blended her passion with her intuitive gifts. She has helped people heal and grow into the best version of themselves as a Certified Hypnotherapist, Advanced EFT Practitioner, Kemetic Reiki Healer & Past Life Regressionist. The ability to help people overcome past traumas, break addictions, and develop healthy and productive habits versus destructive ones is something that her therapy provides. Spectra became interested in hypnotherapy after successfully utilizing hypnosis to break her addiction to clove cigarettes. While admittedly not an obsessive smoker, she did not like the idea of being bound to anything. To quit smoking, a friend suggested she try hypnotherapy, and after one session, she was freed from her addiction. After overcoming her habit, she decided to learn the art and science of hypnotherapy so that she could help other people. After dedicating herself to intense learning and study in one of the best therapy schools in the country, Spectra became certified to help others. Healing from traumas and breaking addictions is something that Spectra believes every person of African descent in America could benefit from as we are all victims of generational trauma. She believes that this healing modality could be utilized in our repair. In addition to her passion for helping others, Spectra enjoys travel, music, concerts, festivals, the outdoors, and connecting with nature.
Originally from Southern Illinois, Spectra has been living on the West Coast for most of her adult life. She enjoys the weather and the opportunities she has been afforded in her current locale. Like all of us, Spectra has always had a longing to know precisely where her African roots were. To learn that, she decided to begin by tracing her father's ancestry. However, taking the test and learning her ancestry was at the time bittersweet. As soon as Spectra ordered the test from African Ancestry, her father became ill. Soon after he was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. He took the test while he was in the hospital undergoing treatment. Sadly, he would pass away a short time after taking the African Ancestry test. He would not live to learn the results. Once Spectra received her results and learned she was Balanta, she wanted to share with her paternal relatives. She unexpectedly found that many of her family were less than enthusiastic upon discovering their ancestry; she knew her father would have been overjoyed with the discovery. However, this did not discourage her from desiring to know everything she could learn about her ancestry. She has been on that quest ever since discovering her ancestry.
Spectra's name is derived from the concepts of the light spectrum, visible and invisible and from the Kemetic concept of Amun. Claiming and affirming yourself versus having someone else decide your path for you has been a hallmark or Spectra’s journey thus far, and something that connects her with her father and a trait that connects her with her Balanta family worldwide.
You can learn more about Spectra and her hypnotherapy practice by visiting, Transcendence Hypnotherapy .