Self-Care Sunday: Making Lemonade

This may sound kind of crazy, but I want to touch on how making life’s lemons into lemonade can be a form of self-care; or at least how we need to start living life with this mentality. How many of us stress about how life isn’t perfect? *raises hand in shame* exactly, me too! As…

…I Will Continue to Bloom

A journal prompt led me to write this post today, because my feelings were somewhat in line with it as well. There are many days when I feel like all hope is lost in my quest to maintain my optimism. I generally try to maintain a level of positivity about my day; especially with the…

#50Days50Questions: Dreams and Goals 

What are my goals and dreams? Run my own publishing company Become a full time writer Be featured in a magazine or on another blog Continue to publish I don’t share my dreams often, because sometimes they feel too outlandish to be accomplished.  Also, right now, I’m in a position where a young thug has…

Self-Care Sunday: Removing Toxic People from Your Life 

When you feel like there is an abundance of negativity weighing you down, sometimes you have to look to the people around you and determine if they are bringing toxic vibes to your life.  If you find that they are, removing them is always the best option.  Sometimes, this may include removing people closest to…

Who’s Approval Do You Seek? 

There are times when I have to check in with myself, just to make sure that I am continuing to keep pushing towards achieving the goals I have set out for myself; but more importantly, make sure that I am not shifting into the mindset of doing things out of the validation of others, instead…

REPOST: The Toxic Optimist

So I frequently listen to The Friend Zone podcast, and just like every episode, it gave me shocking insight on a topic that I have never thought about: toxic positivity. They discussed how a Facebook post led to a comment talking about how positivity can be toxic for people; how the mere notion of giving…

Tea Time Gems

Shout out to Yogi for always coming with the major 🔑

5 Ways to Help You Identify You’re On The Right Path in Life

How do you know the path is right? How do you know that you’re know blindly leading yourself into defeat or destruction? The truth is, you never really know! Most of the time life is all in us havi… Source: 5 Ways to Help You Identify You’re On The Right Path in Life