There’s no denying the word “manifestation” has become somewhat of a buzzword in recent years.
And someone whose name directly comes to mind when you hear manifestation come up in conversation is Roxie Nafousi.
Hailed as the “manifesting queen” by some, Roxie is a self-development coach, published author and manifesting coach who has risen to global acclaim over the past few years.
Her debut book MANIFEST: 7 Steps To Living Your Best Life, which was published just last year, is a guide to all things manifestation and, as it says, the ultimate edit to help you “live your best life”.
But what exactly is manifestation? In a raw and honest discussion with GRAZIA, Roxie describes it as “a self-development practice and so at its core is self-worth and within self-worth, there is mental health, emotional health, physical health”.
While Roxie is now helping others to manifest their best possible lives, it’s taken her a long time to get to this place.
“I spent my twenties completely lost,” she admits. “And I think lots of people can relate to that experience. I had no drive, no career, no purpose. But more than that I had absolutely no self-worth. And I think at the time, people weren’t really talking about mental health. But I knew that something wasn’t right.”
In fact, Roxie had struggled deeply with her own identity over the years. She was born in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia to Iraqi parents – her mother is from Baghdad and her father is from Mosul – and moved to the UK when she was six months old.
“I grew up in Oxford which was a very white city in the UK and there was no one else like me at school,” Roxie admits. “I felt very different culturally.”
Amidst the time of the Iraq war, she started to, as she describes, “reject myself” – and even changed her name from Rawan (her birth name) to Roxie.
However, after years of struggling with her identity and self-worth, it was then a friend suggested that she to listen to a podcast on manifesting. And the rest, as they say, is history.
Having published her first book last year, and a dedicated children’s book to manifesting earlier this year, Roxie is now bringing her practises to the Middle East.
“I think the Middle East is in this really exciting time of change,” she explains. “There are so many different cultures here, there’s so much so many different people to learn from, there’s this kind of real sense of positivity and this feeling that you can do and be anything… but especially now as I’m launching in the Middle East is that people find this real sense of hope.”
GRAZIA sat down for an exclusive interview with Roxie to discuss in-depth her journey to acceptance and the path that led her to discover manifestation. Watch the full interview below.
