About Angela Perez
Angela Perez is a writer, storyteller, and cultural critic exploring trauma, survival, Southern memory, narcissism, spiritual exorcism, and the long road home to yourself.
She holds a master’s degree from Duke University, has lived across the U.S. and Eastern Europe - including Hungary and Russia - and has worked as for decades in the cybersecurity, electric utility, and communications industries.
She was recently initiated in the Quero lineage of the Andean Mystical Arts, earned after a year-long ceremonial training through the Foundational Chakana Course. She is now a p’aqo - a practitioner, guide, and keeper of ancestral wisdom traditions. Her work blends energy medicine, myth, and radical storytelling to help others shed what no longer serves and reclaim their creative fire.
She also recently left my home in the Southeast for the Palm Springs, CA area.
Here, I am developing The Ember Path, a future retreat and story-based healing project in the desert. Her work blends Southern Gothic grit, psychoanalytic depth, and narrative fire.
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Because you’ve survived some things that still don’t have language.
Because you’ve been ghosted by mystics, blamed by cowards, and shamed for still wanting more.
This is not self-help. This is soul work.
I write about trauma, narcissism, food, memory, survival, desire, and what it actually means to rebuild yourself—not brand yourself.
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