Centering, Uplifting & Celebrating Brown Girls
Growing up, it was etched into my mind that food = love. And while I wish I had learned the lesson that food = fuel and that love = love, I can't help but slide back into memories of watching cooking shows with my dad or helping him in the kitchen. He told me that …
May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears. - Nelson Mandela We've featured his words here before and I am almost certain we'll use them again in the future. Nelson Mandela is beloved. This week he is inspiring us to hope. We know that given the current state of the union, hope isn't overflowing. We …
I've been thinking about forgiveness lately. Trying to navigate how important it is to my personal fullness. Forgiveness, as far as I have come to understand it, is not required. It's definitely a choice. It looks different for me now than it did before. In the years leading up to my 40th birthday, I felt …
Good morning. Much love to you all! I have an intensely spiritual side that I am trying to nurture and share. I had a traditional Catholic upbringing. Religious instruction every Wednesday and church every Sunday until I made the last sacrament of my adolescence, Confirmation. My relationship with God has been confusing at best, non-existent at …
I have written about living life in survival mode before. There is a constant churn that exists when you are doing more with less. There's rarely time to even consider my human conditions because I would have to pause to feel and grieve and pausing isn't surviving. There are so many reasons one has for living this way. In my …
Brown Girls Out Loud 