Navigating Softness As A Black Women
Famous abolitionist and black women’s rights activist Sojourner Truth once said, “If women want any rights more than they’ve got, why don’t they just take them, and not be talking about it.” As I sat on my balcony staring at…
The Negative Impact Of Social Media On Relationships
I don’t know who I am. I have spent years trying to fine-tune my image as the soulful problem solver that always seems to have it under control. I’ve gotten many messages from online friends who claim to admire the…
How To Improve Emotional Wellness?: The Science Behind Our Tears
Emotions. They are quick and unplanned. Easily triggered natural responses to the things that take place in our everyday lives. We are able to identify our emotions, whether we feel anger or sadness or happiness, as easily as a visually-able…
Self Love: Love Yourself Before You Love Others
Romantic movies haven’t seen big box-office success in a long time. Maybe that’s because our generation has accepted that the fairytales that we spent forever hoping to experience didn’t really show us the truth about love. I spend my days…
Call Me Crazy (A Mental Health Movie Review)
Mental health is a topic that has been of great controversy since the beginning of time. Throughout history, it has been heavily stigmatized and has been referred to as lunacy, madness, and during the Middle Ages, people were even accused…
The Physical Effects Of Stress On Your Body
Deadlines. Bad days. Appointments. Bills. They all seem to come at us faster than we can handle them and more times than not we pretend to be okay with the pace at which our lives are moving. We have become…
Introspection: How To Protect Your Mind and Soul Daily
I often beat myself up about not doing things differently to achieve a particular outcome, or not working hard enough to accomplish a goal I had initially set my sights on. Similarly, I have observed many people who do the…
How Toxic Relationship Affects Your Health?
Relationships can be one hell of a journey. Often, when reminiscing on past relationships we tend to dwell on the hurt we suffered. Other times we may attribute the best moments of our lives to the time spent with that…
How Living With Anxiety Affects Your Health
Living with anxiety. We often hear about, or even experience for ourselves, the ghastly chest compressing fear that comes with doing things we aren’t used to doing, meeting new people, or going to new places. It is difficult to not…
My Boyfriend Wants An Open Relationship, But I Don’t
So, my boyfriend of three years recently told me that he wants an open relationship. If that wasn’t bad enough, he brought it to my knowledge in a way that makes it seem like I have no choice but to…
Mother, I Don’t Want To Get Married
My boyfriend and I have lived in the same community for pretty much our whole lives. We’ve known each other for so long that, at least to me, we’re more like brother and sister than anything else. My mother is…
