Sometimes life can feel as if it is throwing punches at you. The bills keep coming. You can hardly get outside to enjoy yourself. The responsibilities keep stacking up. Oh, then something unexpected happens on top of it all.
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June is not arriving softly for me at all. It is meeting me in the middle of where responsibility, exhaustion, healing, and hard truth lies. I am stepping into this month as a mother. One who rarely gets a physical break. As a black woman carrying the full weight of providing. Oh, yeah and as someone learning how to keep going without pretending any of that is a walk in the park.
Therefore, as I step into June, I am being honest
about what this season is asking of me. What I need to carry with intention.
Also, what I need to finally leave behind.
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Sometimes single motherhood can feel overstimulating and heavy. You are trying to work, pay bills, raise your kids, make all the decisions! You carry so much emotionally. Honestly, it can feel as if you are doing it all by yourself.
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Losing yourself can happen slowly. Before you know it, you have given your energy to heartbreak, exhaustion, and responsibilities. One day you wake up and realize you’ve been surviving and not shining. However, there is no need to feel down and out. Your confidence isn’t gone. Your confidence is buried under the weight of everything you have carried.
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Hey, there! We made it to October 2022! Whew! 10 months into this year and only two more left to go. I am excited to see what this month will bring. What will ignite this month? Will it be boo-tacular?👻
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Healing from the trauma, my eight-year marriage caused me left me some nights of tear-stained pillows. I cried at 12am New Year Day as I heard fireworks go off from my hotel room. Eli and Alina were asleep in bed as I stood with the window slightly opened, holding onto one of the cream beige curtains. I made it to 2022 without him physically with or around me. Him being my husband. After spending damn near 9 years of welcoming in the New Year with him,
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What’s keeping you from feeling and embodying your definition of sexy and even sex appeal? Well, whatever it may be, you should not allow those excuses to hold you bound to not experiencing a flare of love and romance in your everyday life.
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I do not want to be her! That young woman that I used to be. I am determined to be better. I gave her grace, roses, and forgiveness. I treated her with respect. I gave her time to understand her purpose in this lifetime. I will admit there were times that I felt lost when she would question her willingness to move forward. I always knew that she was capable even when others looked and spoke down upon her.
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We have welcomed in 2021 a year of yet again limitless opportunities to partake on. In about a week from now, we will be about halfway through the first month of the New Year. If you're like me, you may be wanting to put those procrastinating ways behind you and give in to your ambition to tackle the mountain of resolutions or goals ahead of you.
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Maybe you just do not need a bouquet of flowers, candy,
and or a bottle of your favorite wine to put a smile on your own face.
Sometimes you want something a little bit more personal than you can always
hold on to for the years to come. Maybe you have overlooked card shopping, but it
may be something you may want to consider doing for yourself. I am not talking
about a gift card.
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I don't know what hurts worse seeing my mother for the first time in almost two years see her grandson and seeing her eyes filled with tears. Or seeing my mother looking ill and not being able to fully grasp if she knows that she has a serious underlying health issue that needs to be treated immediately. Today I cried a painful cry filled with so much pain once I made it home from seeing both my mother and uncle Louis.
I
used to never be prepared for my period. Even
when I was taking birth control and I knew that my cycle was approaching I
would wait until the day before or the day of my period to get my pads,
tampons, feminine wipes, and even extra toilet paper because I had IBS. Looking
back on how far I have now progressed I am glad that I learned from my past
trials and tribulations with my period!
It is possible! Gaining inner peace during such a turbulent
time is essential to our mental health. It might seem as if there are so many
people that you may follow or watch on social media who have it all together, and you're the only one struggling. I've felt the same way but chose to recharge
and re-evaluate my thoughts and daily practices. I value being able to be at
peace in my life, both mentally and physically.
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You might not think much of how social media could be
having a negative impact on how you are currently feeling. However, it's vital
to always pay attention to how what you see on your social media feeds
is making you think. A simple post from someone you may follow on Facebook,
Instagram or Twitter can cause you to feel down about your current situation or
how you view yourself. Here are 6 signs that social media could be mentally
draining you.
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All my life I knew that had to be prepared unknown. Growing
up in poverty as a child makes you efficient in many areas of your life. As an
adult, I shop for my family and myself in bulk. When I was an adolescent my mother raised
me my younger sister and brother on a set income. We saw money come on third
of every month from social security and food stamps.
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I
had to go so bad that I knew if I stood in the checkout line for anything over three
minutes that I was going to urinate all over the Target tile floors. I reassured
myself before leaving home that wearing a pad was the best thing to do because
my period symptoms have been raging. I politely told my mother-in-law to keep a
close eye on my son before powerwalking to the ladies' restroom with my pocketbook
on my shoulder.
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Motherhood requires sacrifice. You learn to let go of anything and anyone that can hinder you from creating precious moments with your child or children. I was afraid to become a stay at home mom because I was always told to be independent.
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There’s no one who wants to be walked all over and taken
for granted. I once was a young woman who allowed people to talk to me in any type of way. I thought that since I grew up taking everyone’s negative energy
towards me that I could handle it.
