Malia K Johnson
Malia K Johnson
Malia K Johnson is an author, maker, massage therapist, and energy practitioner living in the mountains of Western North Carolina. Her writing is deeply influenced by nature, silence, and the quiet spaces where healing and transformation begin.
As a Deaf woman, Malia brings her own relationship with silence, language, and the world around her into her storytelling. Her work explores the experiences that shape us, the losses we carry, and the often-winding journey of finding our home to ourselves.
When she isn't writing or working with clients, Malia can often be found creating up-cycled pieces and hand-crafted self-care products through Free Spirit Wellness, walking among the trees, or finding inspiration while hiking in the mountains and the natural world that surrounds her.
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Malia K Johnson is an author, maker, massage therapist, and energy practitioner living in the mountains of Western North Carolina. Her writing is deeply influenced by nature, silence, and the quiet spaces where healing and transformation begin.
As a Deaf woman, Malia brings her own relationship with silence, language, and the world around her into her storytelling. Her work explores the experiences that shape us, the losses we carry, and the...
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Whispers Through the Trees
Whispers Through the Trees is about a personal story growing up Deaf in a hearing world, navigating chronic illness, and learning to trust the wisdom of my own body. It’s about remembering what I learned through the wilderness of trees into sensitivity, healing, and the slow return to myself.
The Shape of Grief
A quiet, intimate story about love, loss, loneliness, and the ways grief changes shape over time. Through Mara’s journey, The Shape of Grief explores what it means to live with absence while slowly discovering that belonging may still be possible.
Never Broken: How a Deaf Woman Improvised, Adapted, and Overcame
Malia Johnson is adopted and, at six months of age, diagnosed as deaf. Her horrified mother desperately tries to raise her as hearing, which confuses young Malia. Her silent world is wrought with teasing from her peers and harsh discipline from her mother as she forces her to learn lip reading and speech six hours a day, seven days a week....
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