I’m Gigi.

I’m Hmong-American. I grew up around shamanism but never really took part in it. I didn’t speak Hmong or grow up in the Hmong community, and I had little to do with the ceremonies. I didn’t think much about it. Honestly, I didn’t believe much of it either.

For a long time I leaned hard on logic. I wanted things I could explain and prove.

Then I got curious about the things I couldn’t. Something happened that I couldn’t explain away, and after that it was hard to deny what I was experiencing.

I’m a solitary practitioner, and I feel called to serve. I write poems and some personal stories about what I’m figuring out: spirituality, intuition, my ancestors, loneliness, healing, and the parts of myself I used to avoid.