Our mission is to empower you on your journey towards personal growth and well-being. At Zaiyari Wellness, we believe that anyone, we mean literally anyone, should be able to thrive in the life they live. We strive to create access to wellness, particularly for minorities through fun and gamification.
We are dedicated to helping minorities break free from living on auto-pilot and walk on a path of healing and self-discovery.
Traditional therapy can be expensive and difficult to access. For some, it may be hard to talk to a stranger.
Our Solution: The Zaiyari Wellness Game - the tool to bridge the gap between conventional therapy and self-help practices
In Development
Our goal is to create an experience where you get to play with others, learn, and have the tools needed to achieve wholeness all in one place! By purchasing The Zaiyari Experience you will help us get one step closer to making the full version! The current software is simply to test material and content. The project in development will have the following:
Discover your journey through our interactive gamified version of your story
Build Your World & Your Connections in your journey to evaluate relationships & invite them to play games & quizzes with with you live!
Track Mind, Body, Soul & Spirit to measure your progress as you play
Intimacy Card Decks to enhance connections focusing on family, romantic relationships, parenting, & more!
Comprehensive toolkit with games & exercises
Embedded interactive journal
Support a Veteran & WOC-owned startup that aims to change the world of mental wellness & get perks FOR LIFE
We’re a startup and we’d love to have you behind the scenes to help experience, playtest, and provide feedback on our game as we prepare to upgrade. By participating in the Zaiyari Experience we will be one step closer to bringing you the full product - and you may get perks for life. Play the game to get started!
FROM THE FOUNDER
Joselyn Zambrana, LMSW
Certified Trauma Professional
The creation of this game was inspired by the struggles of my own journey. Growing up, the chaos of emotions and constant change was my normal. Mental health was not valued in my culture as an Afro Latina Puerto Rican woman. There was a constant dance in my life between wanting to be loved and seen, and the desire to cease existing. The grip of abuse was overwhelming and seeped through both my personal and professional life. It destroyed my relationships, the connection I had with myself, and my ability to see others' pain, as I could only see my own.
“The creation of this game was inspired by the struggles of my own journey.“
I only knew how to exist through achievements, so I achieved. I joined the military and graduated top of my class, went to grad school, and did my absolute best to be the ‘perfect person’. The perfect wife—only to get a divorce; the perfect soldier—only to get sexually assaulted; the perfect mother—only to find out I had PTSD and could not connect with my children; the perfect daughter—only to rid myself of all boundaries at the expense of my needs and wants. Perfection gave me stress & stress cost me. It cost me my physical health, my mental health, and my relationships. Perfection also gifted me anxiety, depression, suicidal thoughts, irritability, and having unrealistic expectations of myself and those around me.
“Stress cost me. It cost me my physical health, my mental health, and my relationships.”
Then I learned. I learned to build a life worth living. I went to therapy and, ironically, became a therapist. I was able to heal the wounds that defined me. I also learned how these wounds impacted myself and those around me. I then saw that I was privileged enough to get therapy, and those who need it the most often do not have the time, the energy, or the finances to access it. This game is for you—for those who have walked the path of pain and have given up hope; for those who want help but have no idea where to start; for the parent that is spread thin but wants to connect with their children; for those with strained relationships because sometimes... you just can’t, even when you want to.