The sound of her This poem is about growing up with my first bully being my mother, and how that kind of emotional abuse teaches you to survive by shrinking, staying quiet, and becoming useful. It traces how conditional love, body control, and gaslighting shaped the way I see myself, my worth, and my relationships. I write about learning to listen as a survival skill, becoming the emotional container for others, and carrying that pattern into friendships and love where I believed I had to earn my place. At its core, this poem is about unlearning that voice, reclaiming my body and identity, and slowly choosing to believe that my existence does not need justification.

Anyways, I'm going on a trip out the city tomorrow. I am gonna visit some long time good friends' whose wedding and baby shower I missed... now I never said I was a good friend.

As winter settles in—softly for some, bitterly for others—our kitchens and bookshelves become refuges. We reach for stories that swell the heart, dishes that warm the hands, and a mood that turns ordinary evenings into rituals. Here are five book-and-dinner pairings designed for slow nights, cold weather, and the perennial pleasure of getting lost.

When you intentionally focus on what’s good, your brain doesn’t just register a pleasant thought—it physically changes. This process is driven by microplastics, the brain’s lifelong ability to reorganize itself by forming and strengthening neural connections based on repeated thoughts, emotions, and behaviors. In simple terms, whatever you consistently pay attention to becomes the mental pathway your brain prefers to travel.

Do you know how powerful your thoughts really are? Are you fully aware that these thoughts, all 50,000 per day, are singularly the most powerful influences on everything that happens to you in your life and are the reason you have attracted the people you know, the house you live in and the car you drive?

Here’s a 10-Day Self-Help Challenge to Reduce Judging Others, designed to be honest, practical, and gentle transformation. This is not about shame or perfection. It’s about awareness, compassion, and rewiring habits that most humans pick up without realizing it.

Here’s a 30-Day Challenge: How to Stop Complaining (for People Who Feel Addicted to It). This is designed as a gentle detox, not a personality transplant. Complaining often starts as a coping habit, then quietly becomes a worldview. These steps unwind it day by day, rebuilding awareness, agency, and emotional strength. Step by step day to day challenges that will help if not discontinue your chronic need to complain. There are many reasons why complaining is part of your daily routines. Whatever the reason it came to be here is the method to stop. Proven results, if you put the work in. Repeat if necessary. No skipping days.

Complaining is a way of life for some people. It was certainly a way of life for my mother. I don’t remember a day going by without her complaining, endlessly. I don’t think I ever heard a word of gratitude out of my mother’s mouth. No matter how good things were, she would manage to find something wrong. No matter how perfect I was – and God knows I tried to be perfect! – she always found something wrong with me, as well as with my father.

I ain't gone lie... this shit is not for the weak...this is gonna be my online journal for a while. Stay tuned for the craziness of my life bestowed upon me against my will.

Mental Health, is important. How someone feel can affect, relationships, day to day task, even as far as someone personality. Here I explain how I personally dealt with a situation that affected me. I also explain how other people could be dealing with this same situation and ways to empower them!

Different governments, officials, environmental agencies exhort us to conserve the energy we use in order to save the environment and sustain our continued existence on the planet. On a personal level I think that we also need to know how to conserve, focus and maximise our own personal supply of energy. We unconsciously dissipate and waste our energy on people, situations, thoughts, attitudes and events which do not serve us well.

Procrastination isn’t laziness—it’s a habit built on avoidance, overwhelm, and fear. The good news? Habits can be changed. This 10-day personal challenge is designed to help you break the procrastination cycle with simple, realistic actions that work with your brain, not against it. One small step a day is all it takes to build momentum, confidence, and lasting focus.

I wrote this after months of looking for my missing cat. Eventually I had to except that in the cruel cold of Canada in the winter, she wasn't coming back.

From the dope house to the Pulpit. This is a story of how God changed my life and continues to do it daily.

I had someone leave some nasty comments on a number of my stories last night. They also found my email (not like it’s a big secret) and sent me the same nasty comments. It doesn’t really matter what the comments were, I actually acknowledge that they probably have some basis for them, even if the full story is different from what they think it is. That’s not really the point of this article, though.

Well this will be short timeliness for the abuse and being raped at 8 and then doing drugs for almost twenty years then quit cold turkey to shooting my brother by accident

I sit in the dark while the world sleeps, tracing the cracks in myself no one will ever see. Late nights are when honesty feels dangerous, when my wounds speak, and the shadows finally know my name.

This is a letter I wrote to my younger self that has helped me on my healing journey from trauma, domestic violence, and what I have overcome since then.

"Being a black woman comes with a very specific set of challenges. Has there ever been an instance when you felt your Black womanhood was threatening to others? If so, describe what happened and how it made you feel."

"I'm so bad at this." "I never finish anything." "I'm too much." "I'm not enough." You've been saying the same things about yourself for years. And here's the truth: what you say about yourself, you start to believe. What you believe, you become. Last month I caught myself saying "I'm terrible with money" for the thousandth time. My friend stopped me: "You've been saying that for three years. Is it even still true?" I had no idea. I just... say it. Automatically. Volume 10: The Cave of Echoes takes you where the walls remember everything you've ever said about yourself—the harsh judgments, the old stories, but also the softer, truer voice underneath. In Hindu philosophy, Vak is the goddess of speech. You're always casting spells with your words. What are you conjuring? Includes guided journey and integration prompts for rewriting your story. Free. 🕉️