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Chasing Dreams: My Path to Working in the Cannabis Industry
That doesn’t mean it won’t get done tomorrow. I know that sounds so fucking cliche, but it’s true. If you can’t get it done today, try again tomorrow, and keep trying, because giving up is no longer an option. We don’t give up around here, even on days when we feel like we fucking can’t…
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Stay Lifted: Mental Health and Healing for Women of Color
I’ve always wanted to do this because I know building a real community takes work. I’ve been part of groups before where the sense of inclusion was conditional. “You can join, but you can’t be this, or you can’t be that” — that was the constant message in the spaces I was in. A lot…
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NEW COLLECTION ALERT!!!
CELEBRATING AND CALLING LOUD MOUTH BROWN WITCHES AROUND THE GLOBE When I first started this website, I debated deeply about changing the name from Loud Mouth Brown Bitch, to Girl. Largely because I don’t want to be seen as just any Bitch, because it has such a negative connotation. There are lots of women trying…
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Moving Forward, Setting Little Goals Again
I am back to making small decisions. I decided this morning to get out of bed. I needed to take the garbage out and let myself rest as needed. Small goals help me achieve big goals. I know from the outside looking in, it doesn’t feel like I’ve advanced very far in the world, but…
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“Still I Rise…”
What Do You Want? Has anyone ever asked you that question? Very few people have both asked the question and taken the time to hear me try to figure out the answer. The thing is, I don’t always know what I want. Sometimes I want to be a mother, and other times the thought makes…
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Survivors Guilt: Learning How To Appreciate The Freedom of Choice
When you are actively being abused, the only thing you think about is how to make the abuser stop. That’s it, “How do I end this?” is the only question you learn to ask yourself because from the moment the abuse starts, your life becomes about making sure it never happens again, even if that…
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You Couldn’t Do That Then…
Speak out I mean, you weren’t allowed – or at least I wasn’t – allowed to speak out about what was being done to me. Because after awhile it kept happening, but folks stopped believing that it kept happening. I will never forget being thirteen years old, I had just left the hospital, and my…
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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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