Naleighna Kai's Literary Cafe Magazine Father's Day Tributes | Page 24

Truthfully, the instances with my teeth weren’t the earliest indication that I needed to heal my masculine energy. The summer at a major R&B radio station while working with the late great Herb Kent provided the first glimpse that something inside of me needed healing. Herb was starting to get older and he would have these episodes when he would tell me how I looked much like and reminded him of his mother. So he told me that to him, I was his daughter and he would introduce me as such. One day, he took me upstairs to speak to an engineer about something he wanted done. We walked in and Herb introduced me to the engineer as his daughter. A flood of tears welled up in my eyes and I was puzzled by my reaction. I had never had any man refer to me as their daughter. So I hid my tears and kept doing my work. So a few month and three broken teeth later, I was sitting in front of my altar asking Holy Spirit what steps to take to heal my “inner masculine”. When I heard Spirit say “The men in your life are a reflection of your inner male.” Somehow even though I knew that, it still felt like an “Aha!” moment. My grandmother once said, “Men are our mirrors and they reflect a part of who and what we are. They were marinated in our wombs.” She also used to say, “Creators create themselves.” What I’ve found in my own life is that there’s no way that I can create what I long to create, in life, love, or business, without healing this fracture between my own inner Masculine & Feminine.