Category: JOURNALING/WRITING

Are You Still Protecting People Who Never Protected You? 5 Powerful Questions to Break the Cycle

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 [...]
Grief Comes Back Again and Again. So Can Love.

Grief Comes Back Again and Again. So Can Love.

How remembrance, music, and personal tributes can help us live with loss There is something especially beautiful about the hip-hop classic They Rem [...]
Who Did You Have to Become to Survive? A Gentle Introduction to Jungian Self-Reflection for Survivors

Who Did You Have to Become to Survive? A Gentle Introduction to Jungian Self-Reflection for Survivors

Exploring the parts of ourselves we learned to hide, the roles we learned to play, and the freedom to discover who we are today. Sometimes we becom [...]
Before We Called It Therapy, Black Folks Had the Stage

Before We Called It Therapy, Black Folks Had the Stage

There is an old kind of healing that many Black Americans know, even if nobody ever gave it a clinical name. Some of us met it in a church basement [...]
Black Music Month, Bay Leaves, and the Pages That Hold Our Stories

Black Music Month, Bay Leaves, and the Pages That Hold Our Stories

Some traditions are loud. A choir lifting a song. A drum carrying memory across generations. A family reunion filled with laughter. Other trad [...]
Survivor Affirmation: I Appreciate Me for Being Me (featuring poet Steven Willis w Youtube video link)

Survivor Affirmation: I Appreciate Me for Being Me (featuring poet Steven Willis w Youtube video link)

Affirmation: I speak to myself in the tone I once searched for in others— gentle, unhurried, faithful to my becoming. Oh how I love, adore, and a [...]
Cognitive Patience: “Is Stillness the Missing Step in Recovery?”

Cognitive Patience: “Is Stillness the Missing Step in Recovery?”

We live in a world that moves faster than the human soul was ever meant to. Every scroll, every ping, every headline asks us to respond now. But hea [...]
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