Today we’d like to introduce you to Emma Zeck.
Hi Emma, thanks for sharing your story with us. To start, maybe you can tell our readers some of your backstory.
I grew up in a small town Kansas. My story is a story of transforming myself from victim into victor using the power of my voice, my poetry, and my art.
I sang and played piano as a child but completely stopped performing for twelve years as a defense mechanism while living in an abusive home. As a teenager I found solace by writing poetry and scribbling in my journals all the truths that I was afraid to speak out loud.
It wasn’t until my early twenties that I started to share my poetry online. Writings that were chock full of raw, poetic fervor gained attention from thousands of people all over the world and amassed a large social media following. Through a series of spiritual transformations over the course of years, I zealously began the journey of reclaiming my sovereignty, my voice, and my self expression as belonging to me. Not my parents, not my church, not my family, not my culture. But me.
I denied myself the gift of my own expression because I learned at a young age that staying hidden and morphing myself into an acceptable form would keep me safe.
And for years, it did.
But through a series of spiritual transformations over the course of years, specifically through the use of various sacred plant medicines, I began the journey of reclaiming my voice & the relationship with my body.
I now host live performances that center around bringing people back into their heart, into the truth of who they are, and also am the headmistress of Renaissance Mystery School: Where Women Remember They are Gods.
“I sing for the little girl in me who was shamed for being a truth teller, I sing for every human who feels as if their voice has been taken from them, I dance for every human who feels the fire burning within to reclaim their souls for themselves from systems of oppression and disconnection. I create for the dreamers – for the complete and total reclamation of us all.”
Throughout all of my endeavors, my invocation is to make magic real again, to bring the Heart & Soul back into a culture lost in a dense sea of materialist suffering.
I am dedicated to the liberation of all women, because when women thrive, everyone thrives.
Emma’s debut album ECLIPSE that she recorded at Abbey Road Studios in London is now available everywhere.
Can you talk to us a bit about the challenges and lessons you’ve learned along the way. Looking back would you say it’s been easy or smooth in retrospect?
Dealing with CPTSD, many dark nights of the soul, self hatred, suicidality, existential crises, mental suffering, healing from childhood abuse specifically from my father, healing from religious brainwashing, self reclamation, ego deaths
Can you tell our readers more about what you do and what you think sets you apart from others?
I am a poet, singer-songwriter, dancer, larger than life personality and run Renaissance Mystery School, the place where women remember their power. I’m mostly known for my poetry and vocals.
I am very unique in that I bridge spirituality with “mainstream” culture. I.e. I write country/rock/folk songs and write some pretty raunchy poetry, but I don’t see this as separate from church or from God. To me, it’s all sacred, it’s all the same, it’s all God moving through me.
I also worship a Goddess and defy organized religion which in Central Texas is quite risque.
We’d love to hear about how you think about risk taking?
RISK IS THE ONLY PATH FOR TRUE ARTISTS.
If you’re not risking yourself, you’re probably packaging your art into some boring persona from society or social media algorithms or some identity you were told you must live into way back in your childhood.
Content creators give the algorithms what they think they want, which is more of the same – easily digestible, soundbite, watered down expression.
True artists go ahead of the culture and give them what they need. Rawness, Individuality. Spiritual Truths.
They don’t appease culture.
They create their own.
Pricing:
- Join Renaissance Mystery School!
Contact Info:
- Website: https://www.emmazeck.com
- Instagram: @emma_zeck
- Facebook: @emmazeckmusic
- Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@emma_zeck
Image Credits
Michael Gonzalez and Emily Schmitt
