Surviving Daily

She wasn’t just expected to heal. She was expected to heal everyone around her too—without flinching, without resting, without breaking.” Why is it that when a Black woman begins her …

Because: leaving an abusive relationship is not a single event—it’s a complex, emotional, and often life-threatening process. Here are the real reasons why leaving takes time, planning, and an enormous …

They told you to lower your voice.To be more careful.To stop “bringing it up.”To let it go. But let’s name what was really happening: Your voice was never too loud.The …

There comes a point in your healing when you get tired.Not just tired of the pain—But tired of the explaining.Tired of the justifying.Tired of repeating the truth to people who …

Can we romanticizing reconciliation with people who ridiculed your pain? If they laughed when you were gasping for air—If they rolled their eyes when you tried to explain the harm—If …

You were never too much.You were too awake. You noticed what others pretended not to see.You named what others stayed quiet about.You asked the questions that made liars uncomfortable.You felt …

They told you walking away meant you gave up.That you weren’t strong enough to “stick it out.”That you didn’t try hard enough, didn’t pray hard enough, didn’t love hard enough. …

They called you difficult.Unreasonable.Too sensitive.Hard to love. But what they really meant was:You stopped making it easy for them to mistreat you. You stopped laughing at disrespect.You stopped minimizing the …

There are people who remember you in your survival state.And they romanticize it. They call it “loyalty.”They call it “love.”They call it “the good times.” But what they’re really doing …

There are furious debates about this behind closed doors. Personally, the older that I get, the more conservative I tend to be with my energy flow. At the heart of …