Grace Gealey
Grace Gealey
Grace Byers is an American actress, known for her role as Anika Calhoun in the Fox music-industry primetime soap opera, Empire...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTV Actress
Date of Birth26 July 1984
CityButler, PA
CountryUnited States of America
yoga connections awareness
Yoga is vital because it keeps me in full awareness and connection with my breath.
gratitude blessing helping
I keep a gratitude log, which helps to remind me of all the blessings I experience daily.
parent culture passionate
Raising awareness about the Deaf culture is a huge cause that I advocate. Because both of my parents are deaf, I am passionate about it in an entirely different way.
stress yoga needs
What I love most about yoga is that you can make it whatever you need it to be. For me, it's a time set aside to pay attention to the stress, concerns, and tension that may have infiltrated my system.
people hobbies painting
I love to paint. It's more of a hobby, but people love the paintings so much that I end up selling whatever I paint.
who-i-am giving renewal
My involvement is an extension of who I am as a person. I have found a sense of renewal and peace when I allow myself to be open to create, give, and fully participate in things that call me to respond from my core.
ideas process good-ideas
Forgiveness isn't simply an option or a good idea; it is mandatory for our restorative process.
spiritual gratitude yoga
I have a spiritual practice which helps to keep me grounded and centered. Yoga is vital because it keeps me in full awareness and connection with my breath. I keep a gratitude log, which helps to remind me of all the blessings I experience daily.
love-is accepting truest
Love is accepting your truest, most authentic expression of self, and allowing yourself to do the same with others.
ocean soul family-and-friends
I need the sun, sand and ocean to rejuvenate my spirit, the food to enliven my body and all of the familiar places, friends and family to revitalize my soul. I go for replenishment. For a kind of love that I truly know. For a place of belonging, always.
grateful opportunity thinking
I don't think I've entirely had that moment yet! There's still so much more to be done. Professionally I am so grateful to step out into the television world with the remarkable opportunity of being on Empire.
best continue greatest highest ourselves version work
The best work we can ever do in this world is work on being the greatest version of ourselves so we can continue to give the highest version of this to others.
aligned fact god hit learned simply stem
Once I started to get aligned with the God in me, something hit me hard: I learned that our worth, our validation, our purpose and our acceptance don't stem from what we should do. They don't stem from what we have. They don't stem from what we've done or who we were. They stem simply from the fact that we are.
among black competition everywhere felt home saying shared understand variety women
There's competition among women everywhere you go. But back home, we understand that you can look like a variety of things and still be from the same culture. What I'm saying is that I've never felt like I was a light-skinned black woman. Never felt that way because we shared the same culture back home.