Catch Your Fire, Don’t Kill Hold Your Fire, Don’t Kill Learn Your Fire, Don’t Kill Be The Fire, Don’t Kill Catch the fire and burn with yes that see our souls: Walking Singing Building Laughing Learning Loving Teaching. Being. — Catch The Fire, Sonia Sanchez The most destructive thing about…

Limited income, stressful jobs, and daily traumas mean Black and Brown women need a more intense, less expensive pamper routine — It’s up to us to take ownership of how we, as women of color, define and refine our own healing practice. And news flash, that won’t always mean spending cash on a hastily-done manicure or expending energy decluttering your house when all you really want to do is sleep. That’s…

Carrie walked to the Lost + Found right before the bell rang and right after the day ended. She did this every day for two weeks. On her way to school she’d be quiet on the bus ride, hoping to herself that she would find it. It was a bright…

What’s an R&B song that you love to sing your heart out too?

To all of the people who’ve been helping me heal and didn’t even realize that they were doing it. Disclaimer: There’s not a wrong or right answer to this, this is just my experience. “Gravity is working against me And gravity wants to bring me down Oh, I’ll never know What makes this…

Of course he was ordinary. He was just an ordinary child from a family of ten, the second youngest boy, born on the ordinary day of August 29, 1958. He went to an ordinary school, lived in a ordinary house in Gary, Indiana in a house too small to fit…

We work so hard to become our best selves. To have the best jobs, live in the best cities, have the best website, create the best content, position ourselves for the best opportunities, make the best connections. …

A review of the Making Things Happen Webinar hosted by Mattie James and Maya Elious This title is not to disrespect Mother Oprah at all. Like you, I watch her TV specials, I order her books, I read her magazine. I subscribe to many of her mantras and worship at…