The Light of God Is In Each of Us

As I prepare for the service tomorrow, I am reminded that the light of God we each carry. And we bring healing through our touch, our gaze, our words, our actions, and our thoughts. Our prayers matter. So if someone you know needs a healing, know that you carry the complete source within you. And …

Song And Prayer For Tonight

It is early, but it is late. It is 9:30 pm on a Friday night, and I'm finding myself headed to bed. But not before I offer a prayer and song for you tonight. A song and prayer for the me's that find themselves in the hospital, fighting for their life or their loved one's …

Taking Time To Write

Not everyone has something to say in the moment. I know that I have to challenge myself each and every time I sit down to write, to speak, or hell, even to think. I have to think what is it that my soul must absolutely get out. My writing may start with something superficial, but …

Womb Healing And Care

I have always hated my period. Well, except the first time I got it. I was relieved. Because I had faked having my period for so long, you know, wanting to fit in with my older sisters and cousins, that by the time it came, I couldn't hold a celebration...then they would have known I …

BEing Grateful and Not Perfect

It is easy to pretend to be anything. Most days, I try to pretend to be me, which is really a persona of trying to be nice, which really means that I ignore your bullshit and say and do kind things for you anyway. But I am realizing that I can still be kind, and …

Black Women Healing Black Women

There were about ten of us gathered in a circle. Many had their babies with them, and I just sat listening to the conversation, chiming in when it made sense, and enjoying the breastfeeding mothers across from me. It was a healing moment. We were all black, we were all interested in better health, and …

Worship As A Remedy for Trauma

I'm sitting here, and all day I have been, rethinking of horrible situations that have made me feel terrible, over and over again. I tried to pick up the phone to call a therapist, and I knew that the crisis line would take a while to get through to someone. And then I realized, I …

Healing Habits: Moving Through Trauma

Sometimes you just don't know what to say or do. Your health and wellbeing is in your hands, and at worse, it is in the hands of someone else. On top of that, no matter who you are, you have levels of trauma that enter into your being that you have to sort through and …

Black Women Against Black Women

If intersectionality describes the discrimination that a black woman receives in any given place and time, what term would describe the discrimination a black woman receives who is not accepted by other black women for not being 'black enough'? I am talking about groups of black women that gather at schools, work places, or even …

Black Boobs Outdoors

Black Boobs Outdoors (BBOP) is a funny, yet jarring term to address three important social issues, 1) Black Women's Bodies (sexualized, abused, and mistreated) 2) the myth that Black people don't like outdoors, and 3) 167,000 Black women die annually from preventable disease, and to promote three important aspects, 1) Spaces and places that are …

May I Mourn, Please?

I want to continue mourning. I want goodness, happiness, peace, and I want to be understood. But they don't come. May I mourn this, please? I want to be taken and held, loved, and excited to be part of someone's life that I choose and have always chosen, but it doesn't always come that way. …

Pecans, Caramels, and Chocolate – Turtle Dove Chocolates

They come in different flavors: Joy's Turtle Dove Chocolates, dairy-free caramel hand-churned, roasted pecans, and a semi-sweet dairy-free chocolate that brings it all together in the palm of your hands. Salted Turtle Dove, where the vegan caramel is salted, and the pecans are toasted, and the chocolate has a semi-sweet, smooth flavor. Mexican Turtle Dove, …