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Daily Writing Prompt Exercise:
I thought I would do something different today, so I decided to grab one of WP’s writing prompts and I couldn’t resist this one because it’s so delicious. The truth is that I wouldn’t give my younger self advice, she did everything right and still got abused. There’s nothing I could say that would change…
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Hiyah! It’s Time To Talk About Self-Defense
As a child, there was nothing anyone could do to protect me. I know that now. There were simply too many abusers with too many connections for me to be safe. That being said, there are things you can do to keep yourself and your children safe. In Compton for instance – one of a…
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Is It Okay That My “Why?” Has Changed?
For seven years while writing this website, the only thing I had in my head is “I gotta get better, I gotta get healthier, I gotta get stronger.” Mostly what I was really thinking was “I gotta let go of all this shit.” Now that I am eight years in, I am finally ready to…
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What Matters To You, Should Matter To Your Community
Sit your family, friends, fans, and allies down, and tell them who you are. Before it’s too late. So many people struggle with mental health issues alone because they are afraid of being and I can’t quote this enough as a “burden.” We are not burdens. The whole purpose of humanity is to show the…
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How Can You Miss Something You Thought You’d Hate?
I miss going to the gym, I miss working out, and I miss feeling the tiredness in my bones from a decent workout. I never, ever, thought, I would be the kind of person who loves physical activity because I was never good in the gym as a child. I was high ADHD, and I…
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I Do Believe…
I do believe that every person on this planet, needs some kind of spirituality, that grounds them when things get tough. I don’t believe that it’s my place to tell other people what to believe. That being said, I am going to share what I believe, and you can take what works for you and…
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Make A Decision That Will Change Your Life…If You Can
If you are struggling with mental health issues, one of the things that I now realize helped me to get better, was deciding that I was and am going to get better. I know that sounds simple, but it’s really not. You have to decide, every single day, that you are going to make today…
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If I Could Have, I Probably Would Have…Maybe
Several years ago I was asked if I wanted help building this website and turning it into something really massive. At the time I just wanted to do it myself. I especially didn’t want the help of a white man who didn’t, couldn’t, and would never, understand the struggles of a biracial Black person. 8…
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Why Keep Bringing Up The Past? And “No Matter What, You’re Still A Rat…”
In the story of Persephone, she keeps looking back and ends up becoming a Goddess of Hell who can’t escape the trauma of being in Hell, and thus is forever regulated to trying to leave but never being able to. That’s probably because – and this is just a guess – no one ever asked…
Loud Mouth Brown Girl 