I’ve been thinking a lot about community lately and how being embedded in one can change one’s life. For better or for worse.
Some communities can eat away at your soul and self-worth and believe it or not, it can be difficult leaving those spaces. Especially if it’s the only family or community you know. To abandon it would mean … Read more...
I remembering sharing with someone how the emotional eater doesn’t eat out of hunger. There’s no physical trigger that eludes to the fact that the body needs nourishment. Emotional eaters eat from a different place and it’s not hunger.
As someone who has been an emotional eater for a good solid three decades, in a moment of clarity it dawned … Read more...
When you are a woman living with fibroids, many are accustomed to wearing the longest and most absorbent pad on the market or a combination of a super heavy rated tampon and corresponding pad. When a friend jokingly said she goes through two pads a day, I honestly hated her for just a moment and pondered what life would be … Read more...
For Father’s Day, in support of dads everywhere, Boot Camp for New Moms (BCNM), along with Dads Adventure has launched #DadsGotThis, a campaign celebrating the unique ways men care for their family and deliver as dads.
To participate, moms simply submit a brief video or photo here highlighting something special Dad does to nurture his baby and family and tag … Read more...
For as long as I can remember, abortion has been an either-or topic. You were either for or against. There was no middle ground and both sides are equally passionate and rightfully so. You’re talking about an unborn child and you’re also talking about a woman’s body and her ability to choose.
Recently, I read a very thoughtful and well-written … Read more...
I’ve seen what happens to ‘nice girls’ who revolt played out on Netflix series and have even read about their questionable behavior in a few articles.
Shucks, I was that girl.
If you’ve ever had the opportunity to hear my presentation ‘Death of a Nice Girl,‘ you know that ‘being nice’ can lead women down a road filled … Read more...
Some years ago, I was venting to my friend Denika about an upside-down relationship. In these moments of extreme frustration and confusion, it really does help when your friends are life coaches by profession. Halfway during my rant, she stopped me.
“Lisa,” she exclaimed in her Bahamian accent, “If you ask somebody for a dollar and they don’t have a … Read more...
There are times in your life when things are going well.
You’re slaying dragons and conquering demons and then out of nowhere, life happens.
You may begin to question your own sanity, your purpose, and inevitably you start in on all those why questions.
“Why me?”
“Why now?”
“Why am I going through this again?”
In these moments, when it … Read more...
If you haven’t heard by now, Serena—you know tennis legend, Serena, has partnered with Pampers in celebration of her “wild child.” I saw the stories on Facebook and clicked one of them. I was happy to read a story about a mom who isn’t trying to stifle her little girl. She isn’t trying to get her to sit quietly and … Read more...
Loving and serving the emotionally wounded requires a certain maturity and a mastery in the art of compassion and yes, self-love.
Loving and serving emotionally wounded folk requires that you not mirror back the behavior they’re exhibiting.
It requires that you stay calm, always keep the bigger picture in mind and for you yourself not to act out of frustration.… Read more...
