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Bish Don’t Kill My Vibe: How Carrying the Dumped Baggage of Others Holds You Back
“And then I suddenly realized that I was not obligated to carry the suitcases that I didn’t pack and didn’t have my name on them” A. Nichole For years I allowed people to dump their low-self-esteem, feelings of unworthiness, unhealed childhood traumas, failed relationship wounds and anything else they didn’t want to carry or deal…
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My Intermittent Fasting Journey
This is Chapter 1 from my upcoming book, “The Black Girl’s Guide to Intermittent Fasting and Nutrition“ “My gran told me that people are supposed to struggle. If you don’t, how would you know that you won” K. Zauditu Selassie I’m no stranger to fasting. Growing up in the COGIC church, I learned all about…
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Black America: Pick A Side & Stand On It
“A double-minded man is unstable in all his ways” James 1:8 2021 revealed the double-mindedness of Black America. The definition of double-minded is: wavering in mind : undecided, vacillating. Black America is wavering in mind when it comes to its stance toward White America. When the police kill a black man, woman or child, Black…
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Birth Control & Black Womanhood
“They are afraid a woman can be this strong. This color. This soft. This powerful” Ijeoma Umebinyuo In 2016, I decided that I was done with birth control. I did not want to put anything that was man made or altered by man in my body any longer. I had stopped putting a perm in…
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The Power of a 24-Hour Fast
“Periodic fasting can help clear up the mind and strengthen the body and the spirit” Ezra Taft Benson “Instead of medicine, fast for a day” Plutarch Life can become quite overwhelming and easily overburden us. It can easily feel as if we are drowning in a sea of obligations and duties. We fail to prioritize…
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Establishing An Ancestor Altar: The Melanin Rich Wellness Way
These ancestors become your guardians, and by communicating with them directly, you are giving yourself access to the past, present and future. These spirits live in realms where there is no time” Medicine Man Setting up your ancestor altar is your opportunity to pierce the veil between the physical and spiritual realm and the earthly…
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Unfit To Be A Slave
“You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man” Fredrick Douglass When Fredrick Douglass was taught to read by his Master’s wife, she was scolded by her husband and forbidden from teaching him any further. Master Auld explained: “If you give a nigger an…
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Transcending Survival: Are You Really the Strong Person You Believe?
“It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell” Buddha We live by the motto, “What doesn’t kill you, only makes you stronger”. But contrary to popular belief, just because you survived…
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The Truth About Self-Love That No One Told You
“Self-love will save your soul” r.h Sin “Know thyself, accept thyself, love thyself, trust thyself, conquer and master thyself” Kathleen Richardson Everyone talks about self-love. What it is and what it looks like; its words, actions, habits, and deeds. But so many struggle with both grasping the concept of self- love and manifesting self-love into…
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It’s Not Personal: It’s Just the Law of Energy
There are some people you simply cannot be around. It’s not personal, it’s just the law of energy. Imagine two energies, one being higher than the other. One would assume that the higher energy would bring the lower energy up to its level. But the opposite is true. One of the fundamental laws of energy…