Sometimes it feels counterintuitive, but if we do less it can mean having more. When I think about how much we as women are ‘expected’ to do and all we …
Trying to Lose Weight Fast?
As we march towards the summer season many women are throwing themselves into diets in order to lose weight fast before hitting beaches and vacations. It seems pretty simple – eat less, exercise more. But if you’re going too hard, it can easily backfire
Nutrition & Your Heart: How Food Impacts Your Cardiovascular Health
Want a strong heart for years to come? Discover how food choices impact your cardiovascular health. Learn about heart-healthy sheroes and ditch the diet villains for a path to a healthy future!
August (a poem)
August
Feels like fish frying at noon
All the time
Swooning under a golden orb
beautiful
relentless
power and might
outside our reach
but we feel it’s touch
I Never Needed Barbie
The epitome of beauty and grace, she stood in pink perfection, just beyond my grazing fingers. Her smile was welcoming and confident and her blue eyes and the dusting of rose on her cheeks seemed to further distance her from my reach.
Why Stories for Black Girls and Women Matter
Without writing stories with us, there won’t be space for us in stories. That’s why stories for black women matter. We can be sheroes too.
Building Emotional Trust
Since discovering the lack of emotional trust, I’ve been trying to make up for it. It’s been more than a year since I began and I’ve been creating an emotional bonding and building trust, but trust takes time.
Postpartum Depression
Postpartum Depression This post on postpartum depression continues the discussion on emotional support where I left off talking about the emotional support kids need. If you haven’t, I encourage you …
Change Your Emotions, Change Your Life
Change isn’t easy. In fact it can be downright hard. We’re dealing with a history of living with whatever we want to change. There is physical and neurological programming associated with the behavior we want to change. But good change is worth it.
What is the Emotional Support Kids Need?
So what is this emotional support and emotional health kids need? Isn’t providing for their schooling, food, clothing, shelter, and taking them to their practices and games enough?