Manifesting Your Chapter Harmony

By Erin Smith

2020 was the year none of us expected. Many people lost their lives and some of us barely made it through. But we made it! And although COVID is still around, it is important that we set intentions for 2021 and remain positive as the pandemic continues to progress.

Chapter Harmony is a digital platform that encourages and uplifts Black women to manifest the life they deserve. What started as a personal journey for Ryen Watkins, has grown into an online community of women who share the goal of breaking generational curses, healing childhood trauma, and supporting each other on a journey to happiness. From sharing affirmations, to hosting Harmony Link Ups, Ryen has created a space for Black women to let their hair down and manifest a life they deserve. I sat down with Ryen to talk about the growth of her platform and how we can be intentional on a daily basis.

Erin: Tell us, in your own words, what Chapter Harmony is?

Ryen: Chapter Harmony is a digital platform for the Black Woman who deserve to be paid, loved, and rested in high favor. When I say deserve, I want women to get outside of what they think they want because sometimes what we want isn’t what we deserve. With being paid. With our rates. With our relationships. Even how we go about our day-to-day life. Sometimes we think that we are too old to rest. Or we think that we don’t have the flexibility to rest with our schedules. I just don’t want people to box themselves in like that; specifically Black women...You deserve rest. You deserve to be paid the rate that you deserve. Not just the number that you think you want or the number that you think your counterpart is getting... Get what you deserve!

E: What inspired you to start Chapter Harmony?

R: I feel like I have always been that type of [person] where I manifest things. I manifested moving to a new city. I’ve manifested my dream job. I’ve always been the ‘law of attraction’ type. I was really heavy on that in 2016. So it got to the point where I was literally manifesting things that I thought I wanted and getting them, then realizing that this wasn’t what I wanted. So I was on a self-discovery type of vibe for the last 3 months of 2018. At the beginning of 2018 I had gotten out of a relationship. So I just started with Chapter Harmony being a personal blog for me. It didn’t even have a name at the time. So it started with me just encouraging myself. Like a vision board for myself but through Instagram. I started just thinking of ways that I can manifest what was going to make me happy. I manifested everything that I wanted technically, so why can’t I manifest peace of mind? Why can’t I manifest happiness?

Ryen launched Chapter Harmony publicly on Instagram in January 2019. At first glance, the page’s aesthetic is what catches the eye. It features lots of chocolates, creams, and nudes that match the skin of all the brown people featured along the page. A closer look shows affirmations, self-care tips, and pictures overflowing with #BlackLove and #BlackGirlMagic. One message that is consistent is embracing divine energy.

E: Another concept you talk about a lot is Divine Femininity. How do you define that? And how do you suggest embracing that as a woman?

R: Yasss. Okay so I feel like the divine feminine energy is a healing force of sacred and sensual energy. Everybody has divine feminine energy in them. Male or female. So I think the divine feminine energy is like communication. It is being in tune with whether or not you have the capacity to do things.

Sometimes in the divine masculine energy we don’t worry about how we feel. But with the divine feminine energy, we feel... It’s a balance and you need both of them. Literally at the beginning of the pandemic I was like ‘what do I do?’ I was literally anxious. So I think the divine feminine energy is a healing energy that forces us to really look internal. It’s not to deal with anything girly or to be feminine. That’s not what it means. But it just means to operate in that mindset. I’m going to nurture myself. And everyday I wake up I’m going to ask how do I feel and that determines what I do. To operate out of love and with kindness. Not look at anybody as competition, especially other women. That’s heavy in divine feminine energy. And to just be you regardless of what you’re getting back. I think that has really helped me this year.

Ryen stated, at the time she created Chapter Harmony, she wanted to dismiss the stereotypes about Black women that we often see on television shows. It was important for her to show women who were career moguls and did not sacrifice waiting until 40 to be married or having children. She uses her content to be transparent about the things that she is going through at the time. But also to change the narrative that Black women have to settle for what they want when they can actually manifest what they deserve.

E: What are 3 tips for manifesting the life you deserve? Or any 3 manifesting tips?

R: Write it down. That’s why I started my affirmative line because when you are seeing those affirmations over and over then you’re going to eventually believe it. And that’s part of manifestation too. If you can’t believe it then it can’t be manifested. So write it out or speak it out. I have affirmations on my wall that I see every day, that I recite every day. Another manifestation tool is vision boards. So if you don’t want to use words, you can do pictures. Put it on your phone screensaver. Put it on your laptop. And lastly, I love a good cup of tea. I’ve practiced that as a manifestation technique, where you are allowing the liquid to visualize in yourself like love is coming down and you’re being so intimate with each sip. When you’re thinking about what is literally coming to you, it comes to you with flow and ease. You can do it with tea, water, or alcohol. Whatever! And just make it a practice where every sip you visually see and feel it filling you up as the water is going down. And it’s like ‘ooh!’ It’s coming because you see it and you feel it.

Chapter Harmony recently released a new line of t-shirts called the ‘Chakra Healing Collection.’ The collection consists of seven shirts representing the seven chakras. For more tips and inspiration on manifesting, be sure to follow @ChapterHarmony on Instagram or visit chapterharmony.com.