From Endarkened Narratives to Voice Reclamation
A free guide to understanding Endarkened Narrative Inquiry and the five thresholds to reclaiming your voice.
Your story is not too much. It’s just been living in a world that asked it to shrink.
This guide is your invitation to reclaim it—fully, honestly, and without apology.
What Will This Guide Help Me Do?
Most of us carry stories that have been muted, unseen, or silenced—not because they lacked value, but because the spaces we moved through couldn’t hold their fullness.
This guide introduces you to Endarkened Narrative Inquiry (ENI), a framework that brings those stories back into the light on your terms.
Inside, you’ll learn:
- What ENI is and why it matters.
- How your lived experience can become a site of truth, wisdom, and creative grounding.
- What it means to move through the five thresholds: Remember, Reclaim, Reimagine, Refine, Release.
- How voice reclamation becomes a spiritual, cultural, and intellectual act.
- Why this work is not about performance, but about wholeness.
If you’ve ever said, “I know there’s more to my story than what I’ve been told,” you’re in the right place.
Who Is This Guide For?
This guide is for you if:
- You feel the tug of a story you haven’t yet had permission to tell
- You’re tired of performing “acceptable” versions of your truth
- You’re longing for a narrative framework that honors complexity
- You want language that holds your lived experience without minimizing it
- You’re on the threshold of a shift—and ready to meet yourself there
What’s Inside the Guide?
A Clear, Accessible Introduction to ENI
Explore the origins, grounding principles, and purpose of Endarkened Narrative Inquiry—brought out of academic spaces and into lived, everyday practice.
The Five Thresholds of the Endarkened Narratives Lab
A walk-through of the journey from fragmentation to voice reclamation.
Reflective Prompts + Story Questions
Gentle enough not to overwhelm. Deep enough to shift something inside you.
A Glimpse Into the Endarkened Narratives Lab
See what it means to do this work in community, with guidance, structure, and care.
Who's the guide?
Keondria McClish-Boyd is the founder of Sienna & Slate and the creator of Endarkened Narrative Inquiry (ENI), a methodology that centers stories often muted, unseen, or silenced. She guides writers, academics, artists, and cultural workers in reclaiming their full voices and refusing the pressure to sanitize their truths for approval.
Her work is rooted in lived experience, deep scholarship, and a commitment to wholeness over fragmentation.
Ready to Begin?
Download the Guide and Step Into Your Next Threshold