Tamika Bell shared their story and experiences with us recently and you can find our conversation below.
Tamika, it’s always a pleasure to learn from you and your journey. Let’s start with a bit of a warmup: Are you walking a path—or wandering?
I am walking a path, and it’s one that continues to open itself to me as I grow. My journey wasn’t mapped out on paper. It came to me through healing my own experiences, listening to spirit, and honoring the rituals that kept me grounded when life felt heavy. The more I leaned into that quiet inner knowing, the clearer the path became.
Over time, what I practiced for myself expanded into how I now serve others. As an ordained minister and holistic wellness practitioner, my work is rooted in helping people reconnect with themselves in a way that feels sacred and accessible. I hold ceremonies that honor transformation, I craft naturally derived products through Amunet that support the body and spirit. I also guide creative self-care experiences like the sugar scrub sessions that were once just part of my personal healing routine. My personal routines and practices have expanded through my other business Creative Safe Spaces. Everything I do comes from lived experience, not theory.
So no, I’m not wandering. I’m moving with intention and deep clarity. My path is shaped by intuition, by legacy, and by a calling to create spaces where people can breathe, release, and feel seen. Every step I take is guided, purposeful, and connected to something greater than me.
Can you briefly introduce yourself and share what makes you or your brand unique?
My name is Tamika Bell, and I am the owner of Amunet and founder Creative Safe Spaces. Amunet is a Black woman–owned holistic wellness brand rooted in naturally derived care, ancestral knowledge, and intentional ritual. Creative Safe Spaces is a business that I founded as a Sacred space holder (Ordained Minister) and a wellness practitioner who believes that healing should feel both accessible and personal. My work lives at the intersection of spirituality, creativity, and everyday self-care.
Amunet began with my own journey. For years, I crafted products to support my skin, scalp, and emotional wellbeing, especially while living in desert climates where moisture was hard to maintain. What started as personal necessity evolved into a brand built on education, ritual, and the medicinal properties of herbs and oils. Every product I offer was created from lived experience, trial, intuition, and a desire to help others feel at home in their bodies.
Beyond the products, much of my work centers on ceremony and creative wellness practices. As a Sacred space holder and wellness practitioner, I hold spiritual ceremonies that help people honor transitions, new beginnings, and personal release. I design creative self-care experiences like the sugar scrub ritual I first made for myself, that invite people back into their senses and back into themselves. These experiences are grounded in the belief that healing is not just an event; it is a practice. Creative Safe Spaces honors and celebrates this practice while challenging others to step into and own their own practices.
What makes my brands unique is that they aren’t just a store or a service. They are lineage. They carry pieces of ancient practices, the resilience of my own story, and the intention to make holistic care feel approachable for everyday people. Right now, I’m expanding offerings to include more ritual-based wellness tools, deeper community education, and accessible ceremonies that meet people exactly where they are.
Everything I create is rooted in purpose. Everything I offer is meant to support the soul as much as the body. And everything I build is connected to the path I walk as a healer, a minister, and a woman learning to honor her own evolution while guiding others through theirs.
Appreciate your sharing that. Let’s talk about your life, growing up and some of topics and learnings around that. What part of you has served its purpose and must now be released?
The part of me that I am releasing is the version of myself that survived by shrinking. For a long time, I learned to move quietly, to make myself small, to carry my gifts in private because I didn’t want to take up space or be misunderstood. That version of me was necessary for a season. She protected me. She helped me navigate environments where my voice, my intuition, and my spiritual callings weren’t always welcomed or affirmed.
But she cannot walk with me into the life I am building now.
As a minister, healer, coach and author, I am stepping into work that requires presence, visibility, and trust in my own power. Holding ceremony, guiding others through transformation, and creating wellness tools rooted in ancestral practice requires a level of openness that the smaller version of me was never designed to hold. She kept me safe, but she also kept me silent.
So I am releasing the part of me that believes I need permission to stand fully in my purpose. I am releasing the fear of being misunderstood. I am releasing the hesitation that whispers “wait until you’re ready” when spirit is already telling me to move.
What remains is the woman who understands that her voice, her gifts, and her calling are not accidents. They are intentional. They are inherited. They are needed. And honoring them means allowing myself to expand without apology.
This release isn’t a goodbye filled with bitterness. It is a thank you. A recognition. And a promise to keep walking forward in the fullness of who I am becoming.
Was there ever a time you almost gave up?
Yes. The closest I ever came to giving up was the morning my home burned down. It was a quiet Sunday, May 28, 2023, just two days before my birthday. My husband, my youngest child, and I were all at home. There was no warning, no time to think, no moment to process what was happening. One second we were living our normal life, and the next we were standing outside watching everything that represented my adult life disappear in flames.
We lost everything. Not just furniture or clothes. Everything I had built as a woman, a mother, a creator, and a business owner. Years of work, investments, memories, documents, equipment, inventory, tools. My businesses were nearly wiped out in an instant. I remember feeling like the ground had been pulled out from under me. I remember the shock, the disbelief, the silence that comes after the sirens stop and you’re left staring at what used to be your entire life.
The only things that survived were my Amunet products and my vehicle. That was it. Out of an entire household and two growing businesses , the only things left untouched were the things connected to my purpose. At the time, it didn’t feel symbolic. It just felt like loss. But once the numbness lifted, I understood something deeper. As painful as that moment was, it showed me exactly what was meant to continue with me.
Those products and that car became the first pieces of my rebuilding. They were reminders that even in destruction, my calling was still intact. They were proof that the work I was meant to do wasn’t over. That fire could have taken my spirit with it. There were days I felt like it had. But it also forced me into a level of clarity I had been avoiding. It stripped everything down to purpose and survival, and in that space, I realized I wasn’t done.
So yes, I almost gave up. I had every reason to. But the fact that Amunet survived when everything else was taken told me that this is the work I’m supposed to continue. That moment didn’t end me. It redirected me. And it’s the reason I show up the way I do today.
Sure, so let’s go deeper into your values and how you think. Is the public version of you the real you?
Yes. Absolutely. The public version of me is the real me. I pride myself on showing up as I am, no matter where I am. I’ve lived too many lives, walked through too much fire, and held too much truth to ever present a version of myself that isn’t aligned with who I am at my core. I am multifaceted. I carry depth, softness, discernment, and spiritual authority, and all of those layers move with me whether I’m in ceremony, in community, in business spaces, or simply out in the world.
When you meet me, you’re meeting the version of me that your energy calls forward. Some people meet the healer. Some meet the minister. Some meet the educator. Some meet the woman who has survived and rebuilt more than most people know how to imagine. None of those are masks. They are all me. Every one of them is real.
I don’t believe in shrinking, shifting, or performing to make others comfortable. What you see in public is my authentic spirit, my intentional presence, and my lived experience. It is the same person I am in private, the same person I am with family, the same person I am in my work. The difference is only in what your energy aligns with and what part of me you are meant to receive.
So yes, the public version of me is real. She is grounded, guided, and unapologetic. And she exists so others know they have permission to be their real selves too.
Okay, we’ve made it essentially to the end. One last question before you go. What do you understand deeply that most people don’t?
What I understand deeply, in a way most people don’t, is that healing is not a performance. It is not a checklist, a quick shift in mindset, or a neatly packaged success story. Healing is a lived practice. It is messy, sacred, uncomfortable, revealing, and often inconvenient. It will ask you to release versions of yourself you once needed and confront truths you spent years ignoring. And if you’re not ready for that level of honesty, the process will feel like resistance instead of liberation.
I also understand that energy never lies. People can say anything, present anything, pretend anything, but their spirit will always tell the truth. Being a multi-faceted healer has taught me to trust what I feel long before I trust what I hear. That level of discernment doesn’t come from books. It comes from surviving, rebuilding, and sitting with people in their most vulnerable moments.
I’ve learned that everything in life is cyclical. Loss, rebirth, purpose, clarity, endings, beginnings. Nothing stays still. When my home burned down in 2023, it forced me to see that destruction and creation often walk together. Most people look at a painful moment and only see what they lost. I’ve learned to also recognize what is being cleared, what is being protected, and what is being revealed. That understanding changes everything.
And more than anything, I understand that alignment is louder than ambition. You can force opportunities, push yourself into rooms, or chase what looks shiny, but if it isn’t tied to your purpose, it will drain you. When something is meant for you, it meets you with clarity, resonance, and peace. That’s why I can move through the world as myself. That’s why Amunet continues to grow. That’s why Creative Safe Spaces feels like home. I understand that my calling is guided, not manufactured.
Most people don’t trust that level of spiritual intelligence. But I do, because it has carried me through every season of my life.
Contact Info:
- Website: https://Www.amunet.shop
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