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Terri Bailey Creative, Healing, and Alternative Therapies

Our goal? help you become your most empowered and authentic self.

We offer a wide array of empowerment tools and alternative therapies such as the Emotional Freedom Technique or Tapping, self-care plan development, and self-care accountability services.

For those on a spiritual journey, Terri Bailey CHATS provides spiritual tools and consultations that offer insight and direction on your path to your higher purpose.

- Terri L. Bailey, MA

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“Join me on this healing journey. let’s grow together, create together and blossom into our most authentic selves.”

Terri L. Bailey, MA

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So much is happening!

With a grant from SPARC352 and a fiscal sponsorship from Bailey Learning and Arts Collective (BLAAC), Terri Bailey Writes published a book called Gainesville Proper! And guess what else? DWMT Productions and BLAAC won a Telly award for the accompanying video, “When the Music Was Cheap and Damn Near Free”! Visit Terri Bailey Writes for all the details!

Services

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    Creative Services

    Workshops, courses, worksheets and more to help enhance your creativity.

    Learn ways to enhance your creativity here
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    Healing Services

    Spiritual Consultations, healing tools, and more to help you stay focused, centered, and grounded as you seek to fulfill your destiny.

    Begin your healing journey here
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    Alternative Therapies

    We offer various coaching services, alternative therapies and more to help you move through limiting beliefs, trauma and stagnation. Services include: Tapping (EFT/TFT), Life Coaching, Meditation, Body Image Coaching, Self Care Plan Development, Goal Accountability Calls, Venting Rooms and more.

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    Terri Bailey Writes

    Here you will find my poetry, short stories, spoken word performances, and other videos. I am also an accomplished public speaker on a wide variety of topics, including African American art and artists, community organizing, women’s wellness, gentrification, and more.

    Find samples of my work here
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    Classes and Workshops

    Terri Bailey CHATs offers empowerment classes! Our self-paced courses help you build self-esteem, eliminate limiting beliefs, and gain tools to help you live your most authentic life.

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About Terri

Terri L Bailey was born and raised in Gainesville, FL. At 40, she returned to school and obtained a BS in Elementary Education from Bethune-Cookman University, graduating Magna Cum Laude. She also holds an MA in English and Creative Writing from Southern New Hampshire University and an MA in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies from the University of FL. A lifelong writer and storyteller, Bailey often incorporates her advocacy and organizing work into her poetry, weaving women’s empowerment and social justice issues into her spoken word performances.

Terri is the Founder of Bailey Learning and Arts Collective (BLAAC - pronounced black), the Queens Room Women’s Empowerment Group, and virtual S.H.E. Terri Bailey Creative, Healing and Alternative Therapies, LLC (TerriBaileyCHATs.com). TerriBaileyCHATs allows her a more significant opportunity to serve the community at large and women specifically through coaching, Writing to Heal workshops, spiritual consultations, and classes offering empowerment tools.

Terri Bailey feels the presence of African spirituality in her life is the grace that continues to save and nurture her. She lives in Gainesville’s oldest African American settlement, her beloved Pleasant Street district, with her husband, artist Turbado Marabou and daughter Aaliyah.