blocking our own blessings

Happy, Happy New Year! It’s officially 2017!! Congratulations, you have officially and successfully made it through another year, You did it!! Whether you ran through the finish line or you crawled through. You have finished.

It’s that time of year, again! Mentally, we’re preparing to enter a new year; while simultaneously planning and setting goals to better ourselves. But in order to step into the newest phase of our lives, it’s time to rid ourselves of dead weight. We have to understand that it’s okay to let go. …

Warning!! **this post is not for the lil’ Wayne’s & Raven Symone’s of the world. Whether you want to face the truth or not.. Racism is more than just a “thing”. ** A few months ago, I wrote a post about the “Value of the Black Woman.” And as of …

*Disclaimer: If this post offends you, I’m not sorry. I can’t and won’t apologize for what I say. Like my friend Dominique says “You can’t be a pacifist when you speak the truth”*

Dear Future Husband, Where ever, you may be. I just want you to know that I have been waiting for you, Ever so patiently, and you’ll learn that I’m not the most patient person in the world….. But… I’ve been praying for you, for years now. Wondering what you’re doing, …

Summertime is almost over… and genuinely, I feel that I spent mine in the best way… I fell in love with myself.

It’s so easy to give up and settle for life as we know it. Giving up on our dreams and bettering ourselves. We have children, failed a few times, or just feel that we’ve outgrown the “timeframe”… But either way.. that’s false. “fall down 7 times, get up 8.” – Japanese …

I am a firm believer of protecting your peace at all cost. Protecting ‘self’ before anything else. Not allowing other people to disturb your peace. For some, we allow our ‘good nature’ to leave that window open; that allows people to unload and leave all of their ‘baggage’ (some true, …

Sometimes, it can be really difficult to learn, believe and instill in you, your value. We increase or decrease our worth depending on the emphasis of the importance other people put on us… It’s starts when we’re young, our parents either make us feel like shining stars or we appear …