the Writing Room
Esoteric Essays
Body Letters
Reflections
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My family and I have lived through some hard seasons. My husband and I had to fight for our family, our marriage, and the life we were trying to build. We stuck it out, and we came through stronger together. I’m learning that making it through survival and feeling safe after survival are two different…
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I have been waiting for this Full Moon in Aquarius. Leading up to this moon, I felt the little big shifts happening. Right now, I am remodeling my RV and cleaning out the last four years of what this RV helped me process. Living and traveling alone helped me see the roles I played in…
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I have gained and lost a lot of friends while growing and maturing. When people used to say, “It’s lonely at the top,” I never understood that saying until I was lonely at the top. The kind of lonely where you have grown past certain conversations, certain environments, certain habits, and certain versions of your…
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I voted for Kameirah multiple times. So when I saw that she won this year’s Doodle for Google, I felt proud like I knew her personally. Her artwork, “Hair Power: The Crown That Grows From Us,” is beautiful. But it is more than beautiful. It says something. It reminds us that our hair has always carried more…
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Some days, I miss the woman I was before I started trying to understand everything about myself. I miss being random. I miss being light. I miss having a conversation that didn’t turn into a PDF. Maybe after all this digging, praying, crying, journaling, reflecting, forgiving, releasing, and trying to become better, there is still…
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There is a kind of beauty that makes people look twice. Then there is a kind of beauty that makes people inhale and hold it in for a moment before exhaling when you pass by. I need us to speak freely about the difference. In a lot of healing spaces, women are showing up polished,…
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“I’ve spent years in healing spaces where I was often one of the only Black women in the room…” And before anyone misreads that sentence; this is not blame. This is reflection. There’s a difference. For a long time, I didn’t have language for what I was navigating. I just knew I was learning. I…
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The hardest part about freedom is that once your body learns it,there’s no going back to pretending. Now that I know what it feels like to choose without compromise,I can’t pretend I don’t feel the cost of returning to old agreements. Freedom asks me to stop negotiating with my bodyjust to keep the peace. It…