Ayanna McNeill
Author, Editor
Ayanna M. McNeill is a writer, educator, certified life coach, and founder of Harriet Returned LLC, where she coaches people in life, business, and writing. She holds a master’s degree in education and a Certificate of Advanced Study in Mental Health Counseling from Alfred University.
As a Black queer woman and mother, Ayanna writes about the work of coming back to yourself, especially when you’ve spent a long time being who everybody else needed you to be. Her writing makes room for the parts of growth that can be hard to talk about, like learning to ask for help when you’re used to being the strong one, or figuring out what you want after years of putting yourself last.
In Freedom Fulfilled, Ayanna brings her coaching practice and her love of storytelling together in daily reflections on self-worth, identity, and purpose. She invites readers to tell themselves the truth with a little more tenderness and to imagine what their lives might look like if they gave themselves permission to want more ease, more joy, and more room to be fully themselves.
Her guiding belief runs through the book: The Cost of Freedom is Faith!