Wisdom

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 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 …

Not everyone wants to see you healed.Some people were only comfortable when you were quiet, unsure, still bleeding. Your pain made you easier to control.Your guilt made you easier to …

One of the hardest, most necessary truths:Unhealed wounds are vulnerable to manipulation. There are people who don’t want you whole.They want you fractured.They want you tired, tender, off-balance—because it’s easier …

….to gain some reciprocity Lauryn Hill/X Factor We see it every time there’s a crisis.Every time someone needs a turnout.Every time a campaign, a cause, a movement needs strength, strategy, …

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 …

  I am a Black woman.I was raised as a Black woman in the United States of America.Raised to be strong, to be smart, to see danger from around the …

When people are finally exposed for being abusive, manipulative, or harmful, we often hear the same tired phrase: “Well… they had us all fooled.” No. Let’s keep it real.It was …

  There is a quiet war being waged on selfhood.A thousand little whispers telling women—and especially Black women, Indigenous women, and other women of color—that our worth lies in how …

I’m a plant Mom again. I didn’t realize I was sensitive about it until I sent one of my relatives pictures of my plants. She didn’t say anything. 😕 I …