Zakia Lott

Zakia Lott I teach high-achieving women how to lead without over-functioning, burnout, or self-abandonment.

You can only expandas much as your relationships allowAnd your relationshipsare not randomthey form aroundwhat you’ve le...
04/22/2026

You can only expand
as much as your relationships allow

And your relationships
are not random

they form around
what you’ve learned
to live with

what you’ve learned
to normalize

what you’ve learned
to call love
even when it asks you
to shrink

The world doesn’t just happen to you

it meets you
at the level of what feels familiar

So if something in your life
keeps you small

it isn’t accidental

it’s connected
to a version of you
that learned how to survive there

And until that version changes
your world will keep finding ways
to feel the same

And choosing to face that
is where self-leadership begins

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There are thingsyou’ve learned to carry quietlynot because they’re smallbut because saying themwould change somethingSo ...
04/18/2026

There are things
you’ve learned to carry quietly

not because they’re small

but because saying them
would change something

So time passes

and it softens the edges
but not the truth

it stays
just beneath the surface

waiting

And there’s a kind of power
in finally giving it a voice

not to fix it

but to stop carrying it alone

There’s a quiet kind of beauty
in expressing what’s real
instead of what’s expected

The real work isn’t always visibleit’s happening in the quiet momentswhen you choose to respond differentlywhen you paus...
04/15/2026

The real work isn’t always visible

it’s happening in the quiet moments
when you choose to respond differently
when you pause instead of react
when you walk away from what no longer feels aligned

when you take the step you’ve been overthinking
when you say yes to something that feels uncertain
when you finally move in the direction you’ve been avoiding

no one claps for those moments
no one sees the internal shifts

but that’s where everything changes

that’s where you start becoming
someone who trusts themselves
someone who no longer abandons themselves
someone who moves differently… even when no one is watching

and one day you’ll look up
and realize your life changed
because you did

Sometimes it’s not that you don’t know it’s that accepting what you know requires a different decision.Emotional maturit...
04/13/2026

Sometimes it’s not that you don’t know it’s that accepting what you know requires a different decision.

Emotional maturity isn’t about having all the answers it’s about becoming honest about what you already feel.

Which one felt most familiar?

There’s no version of life where you don’t experience pain.At some point, something will shift:a relationship endsa marr...
04/10/2026

There’s no version of life where you don’t experience pain.

At some point, something will shift:
a relationship ends
a marriage breaks
you lose someone you love
your health changes
life doesn’t go how you planned

And in that moment, it can feel like everything is falling apart.

But what I’m learning—both personally and professionally—is this:

Pain doesn’t just take from you.
It reveals you.

It shows you:
what you tolerated
what you ignored
what you actually need

And eventually…
it gives you the opportunity to rebuild in a way that’s more aligned.

Not perfect.
Not easy.
But real.

And even here… there’s something sacred about being able to feel it

Be honest with yourself…why does it feel easier to disappoint yourselfthan disappoint other people?I’ve been sitting wit...
04/08/2026

Be honest with yourself…

why does it feel easier to disappoint yourself
than disappoint other people?

I’ve been sitting with this.

Because most of us weren’t taught to prioritize ourselves…
we were taught to keep the peace
to be understanding
to not make things harder for anyone else

Even if it meant going against what we actually needed

So we say yes when we want to say no
we stay when something doesn’t feel right
we overextend and call it “just being a good person”

And slowly…
we become the one person we’re most comfortable disappointing

But at some point, you have to notice the pattern

and ask yourself
why you’re always the one absorbing the cost

What would change in your life
if you stopped putting yourself last?

Sometimes the hardest part of growth is watching how it changes your conversations and priorities and noticing how uncom...
04/07/2026

Sometimes the hardest part of growth is watching how it changes your conversations and priorities and noticing how uncomfortable others become around the new version of you.

Some people adjust.
Some quietly fade away.
Some resist it completely.

Growth is rarely clean.

But the version of you who begins to recognize when certain environments require you to stay small can’t unsee it.

Save this if you’re in a season of becoming.

I listened to a podcast yesterday about “laziness”… and it honestly made me pause.Because what if we’ve been labeling ou...
04/07/2026

I listened to a podcast yesterday about “laziness”… and it honestly made me pause.

Because what if we’ve been labeling ourselves wrong this whole time?

What if it’s not laziness…

but exhaustion from living a life that doesn’t actually fit?

From holding it all together
From overgiving
From constantly pushing through things that don’t feel aligned anymore

And then wondering why even the smallest things feel heavy

That part stayed with me.

Because I’ve noticed… when something in my life is aligned, I don’t struggle to show up for it

But when I’m out of alignment, everything starts to feel like resistance

And I start questioning myself instead of my environment

It made me think about how often we call ourselves lazy
when we might actually be tired of abandoning ourselves

Have you ever considered that what you’re calling “laziness”
might actually be a sign something in your life needs to change?

👇🏽 I’m curious what came up for you when you read this

Not everything you learned was meant to harden you.Some of it was meant to help you choose differently…. without losing ...
04/05/2026

Not everything you learned was meant to harden you.

Some of it was meant to help you choose differently…. without losing your softness.

This is your reminder to stay open 🤍

Some relationships don’t just impact you…they reveal you.And what you do with that awarenessis where your growth begins....
04/04/2026

Some relationships don’t just impact you…
they reveal you.

And what you do with that awareness
is where your growth begins.

Sometimes it wasn’t about them changing.
It was about you no longer participating in what once felt normal.

Something’s are easy to recognize in hindsight.
04/03/2026

Something’s are easy to recognize in hindsight.

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