🌍 The Sacred Right to Take Up Space
You were not created to be small.You were not born to be a whisper in someone else’s legacy.You are not furniture in someone else' [...]
🌺 The Sacred Right to Be Seen, Loud, and Whole
There is a world that fears your full presence.Not just your voice — but your volume.Not just your story — but your entire truth.Not just your surviva [...]
Survivor Affirmations: I Have the Courage to Expand and Not Shrink
There is a particular kind of courage nobody talks about enough.
It is the courage to remain recognizable to yourself.
Most of us learn very ear [...]
How Focusing on Body Movement Benefits People Overcoming Trauma
Have you ever thought about where trauma and stress are locked in your body? How it impacts your body?For so long Western society has focused on body [...]
The Bold Choice to Live AND Thrive
Tyka said I could, so I did. -Prince (Tyka Nelson was Prince's sister who recently passed away)
Notice how people speak about sacrifices made for art [...]
🌿 Dear Woman Who is Learning to Say No Without Explaining
I see the weight you carry when you even think about saying no.The hesitation.The catch in your breath.The flood of reasons rising in your chest, read [...]
You Have Every Right to Be Beautifully Represented
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Dear Survivor,
You have every right to speak your mind about how you are represented.
Your story.Your image.Your s [...]
Survivor Affirmations: Black Women Deserve to Be Believed Without Being Perfect
DARVO becomes even more dangerous when it borrows from racism, sexism, and old lies about Black women and Black girls. We do not honor truth by protec [...]
New to Boundaries? You’re Not Alone.
For many of us who survived abuse, neglect, or manipulation, the concept of “boundaries” may feel foreign—maybe even scary.
You might have grown up i [...]
Survivor Affirmations: I Tend My Own Light (w video)
We might not be able to be friends and that's okay.
• Part of my healing is recognizing that not every person deserves access to my spiri [...]
Survivor Affirmations: I Am the Quiet I Was Once Denied
I Am Not Too Much—I Am a Whole World
My presence is not a burden.
My truth belongs in every room.
I take up sacred space.
[...]
You’re Not Healing to Be Liked—You’re Healing to Be Free
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Dear Survivor,
This healing path you're on?It’s not about gaining approval.It’s not about being nice or easy to und [...]
When You Stop Feeling Like You Have to Keep Proving Yourself
Lauryn Hill was awarded the BET Icon Award, and some are still saying that she didn't do enough. "It was just one album."
That framing leaves out a l [...]
Your Hormones Are Not Betraying You—They’re Trying to Protect You
Let’s make one thing clear:
You are not crazy.You are not lazy.You are not broken.
You are in a body that has been trying to protect you in ways n [...]
The Real Flex is Being Optimistic Despite How Much Darkness You’ve Endured
I seen sunlight learn to dance through the storm’s language.......
There’s a rhythm in the rubble that don’t need approval,joy in the smoke when th [...]
Survivor Affirmations: I Am Allowed to Be More than My Worst Decision
Maybe we don't have more talented female singers in mainstream markets these days because we never learned how to treat them?
There was something [...]
The Afro-Peruvian Woman Who Started Telling the Story She Couldn’t Find
Natalia Barrera Francis did not have to invent an Afro-Peruvian history. It was already there. Generations of Afro-Peruvian people had lived, worked, [...]
Survivor Affirmation: For Patti LaBelle, the Beautiful Assertion
Before the world knew her as Patti LaBelle, she was Patricia Louise Holte, a girl from Philadelphia with a voice that could rise from the church floor [...]
REMEMBER THE BLACK GIRL BEST FRIENDS? 💕
Not every Black girl on television was the star.
Some were the friend who walked through the front door without knocking.
The classmate at the l [...]
Different Go-Go, Same Refusal to Disappear into Misery
I just discovered something beautiful.
There are two kinds of “GoGo.”
One was born in Washington, DC.
One comes from Tanzania.
And somehow [...]
SHE DIDN’T HAVE TO REPRESENT EVERY BLACK GIRL 🤎
This may be one of the greatest gifts of having many Black girls in our stories.
Laura could be Laura.
Ashley could be Ashley.
Moesha could b [...]
BLACK TEENAGE GIRLS HAVE AMAZING STORIES 📺
Before Moesha was writing in her journal, other Black teenage girls had been growing up on our television screens, because Black girls have amazing st [...]
🌺 Frida Kahlo: She Lived in a Body That Hurt—and Still Created Beauty
For a long time I celebrated Frida's art and had no idea she lived in pain. I was truly spellbound by the art. As a young person, I thought the art w [...]
When You’re Trained to Consume a Culture but Not Understand It (Amplifying Affirmations for Black Creators)
It isn't that people think that Black art should never be critiqued, but there is undeniable and die-hard racism within the critiques. Further, when m [...]
Soul Train Dancer Tamechi Toney Briggs Influenced A Generation & Created Infamous MC Hammer Pants
I've been screaming! No one was going to tell me?
Now all those years watching Soul Train and I did not make this connection when MC Hammer, who I a [...]
