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
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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
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.
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.
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 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 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.
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?
This Black History Month I want more for us, all of us. To heal, move forward, and create more than a past, but a future where our pain and trauma are understood but don’t define us.
