My advice to anyone who is and has been in foster care and wants to pursue higher education is to live your truth and be yourself when stepping onto a college campus. Don’t ever minimize your experience of being in the system and how it’s affected you. It’s OK to not be OK. Walking in your truth will give you the motivation and determination to get your degree. Don’t let anyone else tell you otherwise. You don’t have to be positive all the time. What you’ve been through matters. – Esther Taylor

Positively Purging-I welcome your feedbacks in the comments and your likes and passing the real-life wisdom on to others as I embark on this new venture of “positively purging”, as I know each of these pieces represents something…