Happy Self-Love Month! January invites us into a slower, more honest kind of reflection. One that centers who you are and how you are becoming, or want to. Since this month is about deepening the relationship with ourselves, I want to share a few moments from my work that speak to what self-love and self-trust […]
When Women Listen to Themselves: A Collection of Self-Love Stories Read More »
Can you believe we start as a teeny, tiny cell? When I ponder the question at my big age, it feels like such a reduction. Me? Amazing me as a teeny, tiny cell. No, it feels too small, too unimportant to fathom. I have parents and purpose and people. I own brains and beauty and
In 2022, I was invited by my mentor to participate in Match Marry Mate’s Women’s History Month annual series honoring the works of Black women that capture the different kinds of love that Black women make. We kicked it off with Alice Walker, but this year, we are honoring Gloria Naylor, and I chose to
The Kind of Love That Black Women Make: Am I Black Enough? Read More »
As I sat in self-reflection two months after my birthday, at the height of summer, my 37th sun trip has landed me at the conjunction of my two greatest assets—my power and my joy. Today, I understand the impact of my ‘yes’, my ‘no’, and my ‘no comment,’ and I have aligned that
The Kind of Love That Black Women Make I have come to understand that women who have not learned to truly love themselves, and then love each other, struggle in their personal lives, and have difficulty positively and powerfully loving men and being loved by them. I am interested in exploring the impact of
The Kind of Love That Black Women Make: Revisiting the Color Purple Read More »