Wisdom

Updated for 2025 Updated from 2016: I was watching one of my favorite shows—Greenleaf on OWN. If you’ve ever watched it, you know it’s layered, dramatic, and often uncomfortably close …

Did you know that some victims of child sexual abuse prefer to confide in teachers rather than parents? Even those from “good” loving homes? No one knew Up until today, …

I Tried One day years ago I was trying to make it through a challenge.   In order to get through it I came up with a solution. I was going …

I value wise counseling. In times of confusion, wise words enable me to stay grounded like the anchor on a ship. Instead of being swayed by every wind that comes …

The Very Idea For years, people walked all over my boundaries. And I let them. Not because I didn’t care.Not because I wanted mistreatment. I let them because I didn’t …

updated for 2025 ✨ Affirmation: I Am My Own Unique Self I am my own unique self—special, creative, and wonderful.No one in the entire universe is like me. My Creator …

*Updated for 2025 When a close relative—let’s call her Morgan—announced her pregnancy, our entire family was ecstatic. I wanted to hear everything. My own pregnancy had been over 15 years …

There are people—loud and determined—who would have you believe that the systemic rape of women of color ended with slavery.That is a lie. A harmful, deliberate lie. Survivors know it.The …

In early 2002 or so a group of us Women of Color working in sexual and domestic drove down from Virginia to North Carolina to a two-day conference.  It was …