We recently connected with Tiana Davis and have shared our conversation below.
Tiana, thanks so much for taking the time to share your insights and lessons with us today. We’re particularly interested in hearing about how you became such a resilient person. Where do you get your resilience from?
I believe my resilience came from being raised by a single mother in America. Growing up, my mother was the one that worked two jobs to provide for her three children. So when it came to me stepping into adulthoood, my natural disposition was to take care of and provide for myself. Having a partner was always a desire of mine, but all the men around me had let me down in some way, whether that be through going to prison for selling drugs or abusing me sexually or abandoning/neglecting me in some way.
So as an adolescent, I decided that my way out of my circumstances was to get an athletic scholarship to college to get me out of my hometown. Once I hit graduate school and moved down to Los Angeles, I started out staying with a random Mexican woman and her child in her apartment in Linwood sleeping on her couch for $400/month while I was going to school. I found a good job at that time training to be an operations manager in Valencia at LA Fitness, so 5 days a week I started making the commute from Long Beach to Valencia in my 2007 Saturn Ion (which made the drive with me all the way from undergraduate school in Louisiana) which was 2-2.5hrs (I’d wake up at 5:30am to be there by 7am) one way, and on Tuesdays, I’d get off early to drive to Orange County for class which lasted another four hours, so I didn’t get home on Tuesday’s until 11pm/midnight.
On top of that, I had a boyfriend at the time, and I ended up putting $8,000 of my student loan money in a joint bank account that I also gave him a card to, along with giving him $1,000 to break his lease and move out to LA with me (he left back to my hometown after about 45 days). Not only that, I put our apartment and all of the bills in my name. Let’s just say by the time I got back to that Wells Fargo account, I ended up having to PAY money to close it lol. After that situation I started training for 2016 Olympics again, so at one point I was going to graduate school, working 3 part-time jobs, training, and going to meets to compete out of town every other weekend.
I won’t tell you my entire life’s story lol but I feel that paints a decent picture of some of the instances that have given me the resilience that I have today.
Let’s take a small detour – maybe you can share a bit about yourself before we dive back into some of the other questions we had for you?
So, I started out in the world of divination and metaphysics as a tarot reader almost 4 years ago. My first deck was bought by one of my exes, and with it I started offering free three card readings. I noticed that I had a real knack for it and connection to the cards, and so I wanted to try out some other magical arenas and see which ones tickled my fancy. I have dabbled in everything from numerology to Hoodoo to Reiki to astrology, but tarot and astrology seem to be my biggest areas that I really thrive in gift wise. This has led me to have the idea to create my own brand Haus of Divinergy, a healing emporium dedicated to creating all things magical for women. One day I’d like to have my own sacred training academy for women, the Divinity/Divinergy Institute, an organization dedicated to helping women take back their power, reclaim their sexual sovereignty, and activate their dark feminine energy and use these things to create the Queendoms of their wildest dreams and desires.
Right now, I’m currently in the process of creating my first tarot deck, Divinergy Tarot. I’m extremely proud of it! I’ve been working on it for the last year and a half, and it’s finally ready for shipping! The only thing standing in my way now, is the $3800 I need to get it from China to me here in the states. I’ve done one round of crowdfunding, but I’m thinking of doing another round since I don’t qualify for a traditional bank loan, and because of the industry that I’m in and the fact that I live in a conservative state, opportunities for loans and funding just seem to be more scarce/limited. But I have faith that the help I seek is on the way and that I’ll have the money I need to get the deck to me soon so that I can get pre-orders out to my current supporters in a timely fashion.
I’m also extremely proud that my card the Ten of Wands has been featured in The Alleyway’s Tarot Deck, one of the most successful kickstarter campaigns ever. The campaign raised $650,000 in 30 days and we hit the $85,000 funding goal in ONE HOUR. So it was an amazing project to be a contributing artist to, and I’m extremely grateful to Seven and his Goblins for including me in this edition of his tarot installment.
If you had to pick three qualities that are most important to develop, which three would you say matter most?
Three qualities that have served me well on my journey are tenacity, gratitude, and authenticity. The hardest one of these to learn, was being and staying authentic, along with practicing gratitude daily.
I wanna tell you right now that YOU ARE MAGIC. Just as you are, with all of your flaws, imperfections, and insecurities. Those are the things that make you special/unique/authentically you. And now more than ever, people are valuing that part of others. So if you’ve been scared to show your truest self because you feel like you need to be perfect, the only person you’re still doing a disservice to, is yourself.
My advice is to not rush yourself in your journey. I know this is easier said than done and that sometimes it can be challenging waiting for the end result to become your present reality, but impatience only makes life more unbearable. The beauty is in the journey and I didn’t realize myself how much I’ve overcome until writing my answers for this article and I see now that those moments are what makes my story so incredible. And it fills me with tremendous gratitude to be able to say that with so much joy and pride now.
Alright so to wrap up, who deserves credit for helping you overcome challenges or build some of the essential skills you’ve needed?
This may seem like a really basic answer to this question, but honestly, it’s been having the love, support, and encouragement of other women.
When I was a teenager, I used to say that I preferred being friends with and dealing with men and that I couldn’t stand woman and that they were all catty and vindictive and jealous and envious etc. But after going through my own journey of healing my relationship to my feminine energy and recalibrating it, I now LOVE woman. And I look back on my developing years with tremendous respect and fondness for all of the strong woman in my 20’s during my time in LA that poured into me, looked out for me, and held me up on their shoulders so that I could continue to make something of myself. It was a woman that I stayed with when I first got to LA that didn’t take advantage of me in any way. It was woman that purchased my training packages for their daughters when I was a trainer and woman that I trainer during my stint as a trainer with Equinox. It was my female therapists that helped me heal after my abusive relationship. It was woman that let me stay with them when I had to come home after losing my job while abroad that didn’t seek to charge me rent and allowed me to get back on my feet and pay down my debts and spoke life into me. So to every woman that has ever shown me love in anyway, I thank you sincerely. I love you! And I”m forever grateful for you. Because without y’all, I wouldn’t be here. At all.
Contact Info:
- Website: http://lnk.bio/Divinergy
- Instagram: https://instagram.com/thesinsualhealer?igshid=OGQ5ZDc2ODk2ZA==
- Youtube: https://youtube.com/@tianadivinergy?si=u9WazPNSraqJCQz5
- Other: Tiktok: @tianadivinergy
Image Credits
Publishing Goblin, Alleyway Tarot & Oracle Decks Wes Artistiq, WJPC Playing Cards Hannah Chinkal, Divinergy Tarot Deck Illustrator
