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celebrate

you’re allowed to celebrate progress while grieving what it cost you – Michell C. Clark 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 … Continue reading

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Sunday Best

Sunday Best: Growing up, did you have a set of clothes designated for church and outings, sometimes referred to as your “Sunday Best”? Clothes that were only to be worn during special occasions and never anyplace as ordinary as say, … Continue reading

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Free Burning

Free Burning, author Bayo Ojikutu, (2006, 383 pages) If this were a hardcover book, I would have sworn someone mixed up the dust jacket. The synopsis on the jacket made me intrigued. It reads: “Tommie Simms was supposed to be the community … Continue reading

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How to Embrace Change

Recognize that change will change you—and that’s empowering. Expand your possible selves. Practice self-compassion when change feels hard.— Take Action This Week: When you catch yourself resisting a change or feeling stuck, ask yourself: “Who might I become on the … Continue reading

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you are a writer

Some of the best Black women writers I know have journals no one has ever read. They write in the margins, notes apps, memos, diaries, scraps of paper and on the back of envelopes. Not for likes. Not for attention. … Continue reading

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