Their Status Doesnβt Erase My Truth
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Let them have the stage.Let them have the followers, the lawyers, the a [...]
πΌ 10 Signs Youβre HealingβEven If It Doesnβt Feel Like It
A love note to the Survivor whoβs doing the hard work of rising, even when it doesnβt look or feel perfect.
Healing doesnβt always look the way we [...]
Are You Still Protecting People Who Never Protected You? 5 Powerful Questions to Break the Cycle
These affirmations are written with tenderness, truth, and a deep honoring of those who carry the ache of being raised by parents who did not do their [...]
How Depression Looks Different in Black Women
Years ago, it shocked me when I learned I was depressed. I was not weepy or crying. The healer had to be wrong. But she was not. She was brilliant. Sh [...]
π± Affirmations for the Survivor Accused of βChangingβ
Here is a healing and empowering set of affirmations for Survivors who are being accused of βchangingββwhen in reality, they are growing, healing, and [...]
Survivor Must-Read Reading List: Black Widow by Leslie Gray Streeter
I've been familiar with the power of Leslie's pen for years. But when a storm of loss and change came around just when her beautiful memoir was [...]
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?Β
Now all those years watching Soul Train and I did not make this connection when MC Hammer, who I a [...]
π The Sacred Right to Take Up Space
You were not created to be small.You were not born to be a whisper in someone elseβs legacy.You are not furniture in someone else's story βYou are the [...]
Affirmations for Patients Who Are Afraid They Will Not Be Heard at the Doctorβs Office
There is a particular kind of tired that comes from knowing something is happening in your body, then having to gather your strength to explain it to [...]
VΓ΅ Thα» SΓ‘u: πΏShe Was Young. And Stillβ¦ She Stood.
βI was never too young to see clearlyβand I honor the strength that rose in me anyway.β
VΓ΅ Thα» SΓ‘uΒ was a girl.
Not grown.Not protected.Not given tim [...]
Affirmations to Empower Women to Advocate for Good Health
Acknowledging that the key to every womanβs survival is
safety and good health; we do hereby implore all women, to advocate for
themselves when in [...]
Blooming Through the Hard Days: Affirmations for Gentle Healing
πΈ Comforting Floral Affirmations
I am learning to be kind to myself, even when my heart feels heavy.
Healing is not linearβit is a garden, and I [...]
From Panic to Peace: Transformative Ways to Manage Anxiety (article & quote collective)
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Survivor Affirmation: For Opal Lee, Who Walked Until the Nation Had to Remember
Some people wait for permission.
Opal Lee did something older, wiser, and stronger. She walked.
She walked with history in her bones a [...]
I Choose Boundaries, Not Codependency: An Affirmation for Healing
Sometimes, the language of βcodependencyβ gets weaponized against peopleβespecially womenβwho were raised to care, to
nurture, to serve. Humans [...]
Survivor Affirmations: Change is My Friend (video)
Survivor Affirmations: Change is My Friend (video): WESurviveAbuse.com encourages and supports the de-silencing, healing, & empowerm [...]
India.Arie Sings “I Am Light”: Plus 10 of Her Affirmations
"I Am Light" β India.Arie
The Vibe: A holy, minimalist prayer. Stripped down to just acoustic guitar and vocals, you are not your piecesβyou are di [...]
WE GREW UP WITH THEM π€
There's something tender about realizing that some of the Black girls we watched on television aren't girls anymore.
Neither are we.
Kim Fields. [...]
Why Harriet Tubman Gave the Gift the Freedom on Christmas Eve
Harriet Tubman helped her brothers escape at Christmas. Their master intended to sell them after Christmas but was delayed by the holi [...]
Survivor Spotlight: Barbara J Hansen
Survivor Spotlight: Barbara J Hansen [...]
Hajia Gambo Sawaba: She Did Not Wait to Be Allowed
(You should see how elated I am! This series is going to give me those laugh lines we are supposed to hate.)
There are women who were toldto stay sma [...]
Survivor Affirmation: For Chaka Khan, Bold Enough to Remain Herself
Chaka Khan has never moved through the world like a woman asking to be watered down.
Her voice has heat in it. Fire. Velvet. Thunder. A little chur [...]
There Are Souls Beyond the Scoreboard: A History Lesson in Hope, Radio, and Second Wind (podcast episode)
We are not living in the time of afterschool specials, radio dedications, and songs that reached through the static to touch a hurting childβs heart.
[...]
The 80’s Was a Great Decade| A Black Perspective
She's right. It was pretty amazing. It was HARD. But that just meant you worked harder to bring in the joy. And we definitely did that.
Gratitude a [...]
πΏ Josephine Baker: She Found a Place Where She Could Breathe
JosΓ©phine BakerΒ did not just βmove to France.β
She left a place that constrained herβ¦and stepped into a place that, for a time, allowed her to expand [...]
You Belong Here, Here, and There too; Even If Others Reject You.
π· Green Book Affirmations π·
Just like the Green Book guided travelers through danger, I trust my instincts to guide me to safety, dignity, an [...]
