Hi friends, Just wanted to let you know I’m super excited to create a newsletter for my black women stories. I named my newsletter, This Precious Dark Skin. A fitting name for a black woman’s skin, which is precious. Here’s my first post: The ‘Confidence Gap’ Continues Keeping Black Women Away From Professional Advancement If …
Month: March 2022
Your Definitive Guide to Dealing With Emotions Before They Get The Better of You
You can learn to take your emotional temperature and deal with your emotions. I regret every action I took when uncontrollable emotions enslaved me. Last week, someone standing behind me in a supermarket said something awful to me and I stood there, powerless and hurt. I wanted to smack this stranger who watched me with …
Black Girls Deserve To Be Children
They deserve to rest and play, justice and equality, safety and opportunity, and protection. A friend of mine sent me a link to a New York Times article with a headline, ‘No Time to be a Child’. Until I read this article I didn’t realize it was possible for my heart to break more than …
9 Red Flags In Relationships
Nobody can bulletproof a relationship because bullets come from the outside and things that shatter a relationship come from the inside. Casually thrown hurtful words Words are like bullets. Once you pull the trigger, you can’t take them back. You can express remorse or say you are sorry, but that is not the same. We …