2020 was the year of hard lessons learned; there were ups and downs that no one could see coming. And for a lot of us, it was emotionally, physically, and spiritually draining. Raise your hand if this describes how you are feeling! And now that we have entered the new year, you may feel a bit lost in what you… Read More
Womanhood
finding the woman in the mother
As women, we oftentimes lose ourselves in being mothers. Were taught to take care of everyone else before ourselves. We are critiqued and made to feel guilty about needing time and space away from our children. Being a mother is made out to be a role that requires you to lose yourself in everything that is not YOU. As a… Read More
4 powerful lessons i learned before 30
I grew up hearing that your 20’s were the times to make your mistakes, your 30s are your prime years, and that anytime after that you stop counting. I don’t know if this is true yet, but in these 7 years of my 20s , I have found out a lot about adulthood, womanhood, and parenthood. And I’ve made a… Read More
why you should decide to make life’s lemons into lemonade
Growing up I always heard my mother say, “ It’s not your fault but It is your problem”. She would often say this when people would blame their current situation on their childhood, other people’s action, or just life getting them down. This is a hard pill to swallow for most because you have to deal with the fact of… Read More
how i overcame wanting to be accepted
We live in a world where we oftentimes look for others’ acceptance of the choices we decide to make. We upload photos waiting for our first like or comment, ask everyone around us about decisions we should make, and are oftentimes disappointed and hurt by how others choose to or do not choose to respond to our issues in life…. Read More
why i failed in the first week of the new year
I had every intention of starting off the New Year right. I made up in my mind that when the clock striked 12:00 am on January 1st, that all the goals that I set for the New Year were already mine. Then the next day passed, then the next and the next. By the time Sunday came I hadn’t started… Read More