Encouraging/Empowering Others

You Are Not The Storm. You Are The Sun.

For as long as I can remember, I have put others’ needs before my own. Where did this come from exactly? Was it a taught behavior? Was it a way to protect myself from the unpredictability...

THEY CAN NOT BREAK US

Today, I realized that I am so strong, because I have three stories like this. Three times someone tried to rape me—first, when I was eight years old, [the] second time when I...

Survive

Covid affected all of us. We had to stay in our homes and become sick of each other if not of an illness. We had to rely on technology and become zoom-bies. But some of us teenage, black...

You will overcome!

The quote reads ‘Things either make you or break you.’ I believe at first, my life really broke me. But when I started to comprehend how wasteful I was being with my existence, it was...

Finding my birth mother

Being adopted didn’t give me a better life, but it changed the route of my life journey and I’d like to share a little bit about that with all of you this evening. One day when I was 8...

It wasn’t your fault

Trigger warning: Before reading this post, please be aware that it contains references to rape. It’s hard to believe I’d ever have a story to tell. Some days it’s easier and some days...