healing
How to heal fully and properly.
When you're robbed at gunpoint by men wearing masks & you go into covid .. with EVERYONE wearing masks .. !
I thought the ending of 2019 was the worst.. then 2020 arrived ! ! Robbed at gunpoint, i gain sezures from it, COVID hits, and i get it,.. my job goes down to 21 hrs a week..I'M BROKE.. and a fulltime caregiver to a disabled parent for whom i support us both on.., and my furnace cracks and emits carbon monoxide fumes.. all in 1 year.. what else is coming by Christmas? Aliens? bring it..get it over with plzzzzzzzz...
By Nancy Smith5 years ago in Motivation
The Reflection Of Truth...
My mind was cluttered with thoughts, so I decided to take a walk. At that moment I noticed a house that wasn't there before, wondering if I had overlooked it. As I stare at the house, an older woman comes out & ask me, "Did you find the answers that you was looking for"? Excuse Me, I inquired. You've been looking in all the wrong places, she replied. And I can help you find the answers to the questions that keeps you up all night. Please come in & I'll grab you some tea. Curious about her statement, I accepted her invitation then walked over the threshold of her home & notice that she had material things everywhere. In a daze admiring the grandfathers clock in the corner & the golf clubs made from stones that was propped on a glass stool. I exhaled the word, "Beautiful". Deviating towards the hallway, observing a door opening with enough light to creep through the wooded door. Curious about the room, I peek in & see nothing but a mirror sitting in the middle of the floor with a chair in front of it.
By Keyshanna Robertson5 years ago in Motivation
Opening up: writing my first article online about surviving sexual abuse.
Well... it was a very difficult decision for me to make about opening up about my trauma. I’ve read lots of anonymous and not so anonymous sexual abuse survival stories, and I never thought it would be the way I opened up about it. These last few months though, the cold weather and rainy day’s have affected me more than I realized, and I felt the urge to just let it out. Considering the response I’ve had from family about it, I figured, you know what, maybe just telling my story online will help someone else. I don‘t care if it it read by 1 person or 1 million people.
By No Introduction5 years ago in Motivation
The Broke College Grad Diaries
For those of you who have watched my YouTube videos or who know me personally, I started a video series meant to inspire and inform people about life after graduating college. I ended up only making one video and it was the last video to air on my channel. I loved making YouTube videos and I loved the concept behind this series even more but, I just wasn't able to make it work with my life at the time.
By Derek Evers5 years ago in Motivation
Self-love and Lack Thereof!
Self-love and Lack Thereof Can you love someone even if you don’t love yourself? Unpopular opinion--yes, you can, but let me tell you why you shouldn’t. First, what do you know about love? If you loved yourself, then you’d already know the answer. “Why is it not okay to love someone if you don’t love yourself?” Now, I didn’t say it wasn’t--I said you shouldn’t. When you love someone before yourself, you ultimately give them the power over you to retrieve what you believe is love and because you want their love for selfish gain. You have love to give, but how would you know that? You do anything and everything for the love that you lack. You give yourself; light. You give your light away rather than spread your love, thinking that it’s love. If you truly loved yourself, then you’d respect yourself enough to withstand any negative feedback putting out your light from someone who lacks it.
By Michael5 years ago in Motivation
Painful Memories
Marie was at the top of the hill where she could see everything from the entire village to the mountains that surrounded what she called her haven. The view was incredible. After several days of avoiding the trail, Marie was happy she was still at her pace without too much strain.
By Pattyrose5 years ago in Motivation
The woman
So back to the original question, who is this woman really? I believe that many women myself included having some time in our lives, did not know who this woman was. I know I didn’t know who I was because it takes years to develop the real you as a person. As women, we have to endure so much of what daily life dishes out at us that we tend to overlook and not focus on who we are. As children, we are taught different things like how we are supposed to conduct ourselves to get a man. How we are supposed to dress, and please don’t let me get started on how we are supposed to communicate with one another. With all of these things going on around us daily, it is easy to fall into the box of just following the crowd. This is why the first part of this piece is important because the woman who follows the crowd usually goes no further than the crowd.
By Theresa Evans5 years ago in Motivation
BirchBox is holy grail to this #blackgirlsmagic
There once was a black girl who faced many adversities on a path to reignite her personal magic. She lived within a high crime neighborhood. Fuled by gang violence and gang wars. There are funeral homes and liquor stores on every corner. Sidewalks decorated with bullet casings and broken Hennessy bottles. She resided in a community which felt all consuming living in such a horrid environment she lost herself. How could she inspire that feeling, that spark which had fled from her, her ; #blackgirlmagic.
By Aubriaun Ashley5 years ago in Motivation
Un-pretty
Do you know when a Supernatural being is working things out for your good? Recently I have been battling some issues with other people that just don’t make sense to me. It is hard sometimes to see when a Supernatural being is working things out for my good because I see the pain and hurt all around me.
By Theresa Evans5 years ago in Motivation
Fragments
Broken pieces scatter the ground. Pieces mirroring the pain she feels. Reflections of past, present, future. Putting them back together feels like a never-ending spell of deja vu. Her journey begins with the same familiar steps. Almost like putting together the book of life in which we all try to live by. You know the kind that says "It's okay you get knocked down just get back up again" or how about the famous one "Things happen for a reason". She runs these thoughts through her mind. "Okay, let's take out the "I got this glue" for the millionth time. Trying to be hopeful she picks up the pieces carefully so that she doesn't get another cut, but it seems with every piece she picks up it cuts deeper. The kind that pierces the heart leaving a permanent pattern. Holding the jagged piece in her hand looking at it, tears spilling, blurring the painful memories, becoming numb and its the norm for her. The fragments of her life are put back together yet again. Dusting herself off she gets back up again.
By Cindy M Tiberi5 years ago in Motivation
Life After Incarceration
The life you live today reflects on those around you. At the age of 48, I was arrested and sentenced to a year in lock-up. Charged with a crime, I had to make the most from the set down. You can not think of the thoughts of the poor pitiful me because, when you have children and grandchildren, you are not the only one experiencing the moment. For years, I dwelled on the events in my life that were mentally and financially affecting my kids too. I did not choose the right ways to cope with the tragedies that were in my life, and drugs and alcohol affected everyone around me. Too often, we become so self-absorbed that we can not see how our actions affect everyone around us.
By Melanie Durham5 years ago in Motivation
VALUE
My time is valuable, and so am I. Most people do not realize how valuable they are, which means that they do not know their time is valuable. I was like this for years because I had low self-esteem issues as a child, so those issues were still with me when I became an adult. I did not know the value of who I was as a child because it was an adult who made sure that I was not valued at all. This individual made sure to it that I understood that I was nothing compared to them. In a nutshell, because they were the adult, what I said or felt was not important or believable because I was a child. It really sucks when an adult thinks that they can do and say anything that they feel. They never stop to think about their actions towards someone else. They meaning the abuser thinks that they will never get caught, and this sets the stage for all kinds of self-esteem issues, self-pity, lies, failure, and not being able to trust in yourself or anyone else.
By Theresa Evans5 years ago in Motivation
