Category: Self Worth
What Is Strength (For a Survivor)?
They told us strength meant being hard.Tough. Silent. Unshakable.They [...]
🛑 What Is a Boundary? (And Why It’s Not a Punishment)
A boundary is not a wall to keep people out.It is a door that you cont [...]
🤲🏽 What Is Self-Trust? (And Why Is It So Hard After Abuse?)
Self-trust is the sacred belief that your own voice is worth listening [...]
🌿 What Is Healing?
I'm a plant Mom again. I didn't realize I was sensitive about it until [...]
Unloving the People We’re Told to Never Give Up On
“But That’s Your Family…”
There’s a sacred pain that often goes unn [...]
🌺 Believing Yourself First: A Return to the Oldest Wisdom You Have
Before the world taught you to doubt yourself,before people gaslit you [...]
🌬️ Benediction for the Journey: On Letting Go
Letting go is not weakness.Letting go is not failure.Letting go is not [...]
Boundaries Are Sacred: Honoring the Line Between Survival and Self-Betrayal
Boundaries aren’t walls.They’re doors you open for love — and shut to [...]
🔁 Starting Over: A Sacred Act of Power, Not Failure
They don’t talk about how painful starting over can be.They don't talk [...]
🌱 After the Ending: What Rebirth Really Looks Like
We should make time to talk more about how messy rebirth can be.
It’s [...]
🌸 Trusting Yourself Again After Abuse: A Return to Your Inner Knowing
When you’ve survived abuse — especially the kind that twists your real [...]
🛡️ Building Courage After Abuse: Breath by Breath, Brick by Brick
After abuse, courage doesn't roar back all at once.It flickers.It shak [...]
🌿 Healing After Emotional Abuse: You Are Not Broken, You Are Becoming
Healing after emotional abuse isn't about "getting back to normal."It’ [...]
🎤 Survival, Sisterhood, and Triumph: Honoring Pepa as Salt-N-Pepa Enter the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
When Salt-N-Pepa burst onto the scene, they didn't just make music — t [...]
The Real Exclusion Happens When We Refuse to Face the Truth: Male on Male Violence
It is not women who are being exclusionary when we protect our spaces. [...]
Woman You Are Already Enough: A Reminder from Fannie Lou Hamer
In a world where women — especially minoritized women, poor women, d [...]
Dear Readers: Why We Capitalize the ‘B’ in Black
You may notice that in my writing — and in the writing of many other [...]
No One is Like Us. Women Fight Differently
Women fight differently.
When the Taliban ordered Afghan women not [...]
Violence Against Women Always Looks for an Inside Woman
Like most acts of violence against women,invasion of boundaries doesn’ [...]
Sisterhood Isn’t a Cage: Reject the Love Bombs That Protect Male Violence
Some women will drench you in compliments, promises, and affection —no [...]
