Content Warning: Pregnant with depression and suicidal ideation. My journey to motherhood didn’t start under the happiest of circumstances. I was already experiencing the most chaotic times of my entire life when I became pregnant. The spiral of sadness that I had been going down before I conceived paled in comparison to the overwhelming sense of …
Mother’s Day is coming, Mamas! Our time to shine! I love all of the attention except for the fact that I never know how to respond when my family asks what kind of mother’s day gift I’d like. I know it sounds cliché, but I really do have everything I could want in life. My …
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I did the big chop back in 2018, and have had short hair ever since. It was one of the best hair decisions I’ve made in my life, and I wish I would have done it sooner!
I love to read, and memoirs by Black women is one of my favorite genres. I’m sure it has a lot to do with me being a Black woman. Seeing how other women like me were able to create lives that are meaningful and impactful, in whatever way, is inspiring. Even though that’s the draw …