Mental Wellness and Healing

Dating is not a promise of access. It is a process of discovering mutual interest, compatibility, and trust. Understanding rejection is part of building safer relationships. A healthy understanding of …

updated from June 9. 2025 It’s so tricky out here these days… Let’s make something abundantly clear: Being an ally to a group, a cause, or a community does not …

updated from December 13, 2025 FGM victims’ fury as academics compare practice to cosmetic surgery Any honest critique of global efforts to address female genital mutilation must begin here: Girls’ …

I deeply despise stories that depict women finding their way through to the other side of sex work or a season of promiscuity as being synonymous with change for the …

Some of us were never told that we deserved to feel safe.We were told to keep going.To be strong.To not make a scene.To forgive.To forget.To move on. So we did.We …

  Updated from November 2025 How hard is it to just say “mothers and…..?”   In 2024, Black women had a maternal mortality rate of 44.8 deaths per 100,000 live …

  Juneteenth is not just a holiday. It is a mirror—reflecting how this nation has long believed that Black people deserve nothing more than scraps. Even when we fight for …

“Why doesn’t she leave? Why did she go back?” We don’t spend a lot of time examining what makes women doubt themselves. I look forward to the days when we …

  People tend to move on and forget the people we lost during the seasons when deception and manipulation reigned…… So many, too many Survivors have been hurt in these …

It shattered me that as Cherrie Moore was being punched in the face by a maniacal madman police officer, she was trying to reassure and comfort the maniacal madman police …