Hattie Mae Pembrook is a Spiritual Life Coach, Motivational Speaker and Writer. She is the Author of "Messages to Awaken yourSelf" which is filled with messages to uplift, inspire and help awaken your true identity. Hattie is also a contributing author to Chicken Soup for the African American Woman’s Soul.
Ms. Pembrook travels with her Amazing Composer and Inspirational Songstress sister DeeJazz. They frequent Unity Churches and other venues sharing "Wakeshops." for participants to experience their complete goodness and certain Divinity. Together, they are hailed as a, “Double Dose of Inspiration and Motivation.
Hattie Mae Pembrook was raised in Catholicism. She loved
everything about the church, the liturgy, Jesus and the nuns. During her four years of high school Hattie spent most of her weekends visiting the sick poor with the Dominican Sisters of the Sick Poor. She and other teenage girls wore blue and white uniforms and assisted the sisters who were registered nurses serving the elderly and sick in their homes. They were trained as nurse's aides. She loved the aspect of service, sense of community and her love for Jesus.
In her senior year she and thirteen other Dominicanettes, as they were called, applied to enter the convent, become a bride of Christ and serve the sick poor as a vocation and station in His service. After preliminary exams at the University of Detroit, Hattie was the only young woman out of the thirteeen Dominicanettes who was denied entrance. From there on her life took a drastic turn because she internalized the rejection as a personal slap in the face from Jesus.
Hattie was the only girl of color in the organization and the only negro girl to apply with all white teens.
Today, through verification by a head nun who years later told her that they had no negro sisters and by experience in the world Hattie realizes that racism reared its ugly presence. Young and vulnerable she did not know that Jesus nor God ever turned their love from her.
Hattie felt lost, alone and abandoned. For the first time she experimented with drugs, sex and alcohol. Naive to the ways of the streets and the world Hattie became susceptible to the advances of men.. She began looking for love in all the wrong places.
At the age of seventeen she survived her first suicide attempt and landed her first stay in a mental institution. After that several other suicide attempts followed; along with other hospital stays. Eventually, during most of her adult life she explored and succeeded with various kinds of therapy.
Hattie has worked in the mental health field herself as a counselor, group therapist and individual therapist for people undergoing Adult After Care. For many years she held a license as a Social Worker Technician.
One of the critical learning experiences for her was the recognition that children and young people suffer the misinformation and mistreatment from the adults in their lives. Many times it's not intentional, nevertheless it is generally hurtful and often damaging.
Hattie is a certified Nurtured Heart Approach (NHA) counselor teaching parents skills that enrich and empower their children's lives in addition to making parenting less stressful and more successful.
She worked many years for Michigan State University and the University of Michigan as a technician and research interviewer in the field of substance abused mothers and their children. One of her many speaking engagements was on sexuality for Wayne State Medical students.
She has spent decades embracing spirituality separate from Catholicism and generally from traditional religion.
She and her caucasion friend Mary spent a few years facilitaing workshops in eliminating racism. They have been featured in newspaper and television for their work in ending racism.
In earlier years Hattie won the title of Miss NAACP, was centerfold in Jet magazine, worked as a Playboy Bunny, a beautician, a figure model, a motivational trainer, and in 1963 she and her dad marched with Dr. Martin Luther King in Detroit.
In the late 80's Hattie taught meditation classes for second year college students at Kalamazoo Valley community college and in the 90's she worked with the illustrious and dynamic speaker Les Brown. Les gives Hattie two thumbs up on her first book entitled; Messages to Awaken yourSelf. His engaging endorsement speaks on the back of her book.
For pure enjoyment Hattie loved riding horses, motorcycles and roller skating. Hattie still loves to roller skate. See picture above with she and her grandchildren on skates.
She will be sixty four in September 2006. She is married to the love of her life, has two children, four step-children and thrives on the fruits of being a grandmother.
Hattie has triumphed over self-pity, victimhood, racism, addiction to marijuana, cigarettes, and the ego's relentless pursuit of looking good and being right at all costs.
Her latest hit success is enjoying being a contributor to Chicken Soup for the African American Woman's Soul. Here Hattie tells the story of her mother and grandmother's plight with racism in America.
Today Hattie is a Spiritual Life Coach, Motivational Speaker and Writer. She primarily travels with her sister DeeJazz, an inspirational singer/songwriter/composer/producer.
Their message is that either we are Messengers of God. or we are messengers of the ego. Whom will you serve? is the question they ask. They give 'wakeshops', an experience in learning to awaken to the presence of God and the Holy Spirit in ones' own heart and life.
Hattie and DeeJazz's focus is finding the Divine within, seeking always to love, not judge, blame or defend and practicing forgiveness as a way of living one's life to the fullest.
Contact Hattie at http://hattiemae.com or email her at [email protected]
Read Hattie's Story, Shades of Black and White, on page 277.
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