With her debut book, Return to Source, Araba Ofori-Acquah reveals long-forgotten truths and teachings of indigenous African wellness practices, while exploring her personal mental health and spiritual journey.
Like many Black British diasporans, Araba was raised in a Christian household and when she found her faith floundering in her late teens, she pushed doubts aside, growing up to seek fulfilment in academic achievement (and later through her career). She overthought, overworked and overachieved until she hit a breaking point in her mid-twenties, when she was forced to come to terms with the “high-functioning anxiety and depression” she’d been battling for a long time.
Through her healing process she encountered various traditional therapeutic modalities from all over the world that aided her recovery alongside medical intervention. She was inspired to leave the corporate world of ‘girlbossing’ behind to become a healer in her own right.