I’m not sure how we got here, but here we are. Tired, stressed, overcommitted, and overwhelmed—at work and at home. Tasked with the challenge of juggling work-life, family, and friends all while attempting to carve out “me time” for self-care and personal sanity. I know I can do anything, but I can’t do everything. There have been times when I’ve felt like I was drowning. Whe[...]
Whether trying to keep up with the Joneses, Kardashians, a favorite social media influencer, or your neighbor next door, many of us compare our lives to someone else’s. And while I’d like to think that at my age, with my life experience I would be immune to this by now, the truth is that occasionally I still compare myself to others. Besides the fact that it can harm your mental, emoti[...]
At the end of last year, I was at a retreat where I was asked to write down a list of what I had accomplished during the year. Needless to say, it took me wayyy to long to come up with the few things I was able to write down before time was up. Not because I hadn’t done anything worthwhile, but because I never stopped long enough to celebrate any of it. So this year I decided to change[...]
I don’t do New Year’s resolutions, but I do love starting the year by creating a vision board. This year I decided to invite a group of amazing women to join me and start the year by hosting a vision board party to create a clear vision of what we want to achieve. I’m a big believer of manifestation and the idea that we become what we think and what believe. And visualizati[...]
Happy New Year! Although I don't do resolutions, I have set quite a few lofty goals for the new year and I'm sure I'm not alone. So I've put together a list of 20 inspiring quotes to kick off the new year to help us stay motivated when we get frustrated, discouraged, and need an extra push to get over life's hurdles.read more[...]
I first learned of the Before I Die project when one of my close friends wrote a blog about participating in a workshop inspired by the project. The project was created when Candy Chang, an artist who had lost someone she loved, painted the sentence, “Before I die I want to______” in chalkboard paint on an abandoned house in her New Orleans neighborhood. The next day, the wal[...]
For me, the sadness starts in August. As soon as the kids go back to school, I start to feel cold air on my neck. I know winter is just around the corner. Football season starts. The days get shorter. The wind blows colder. I get depressed. I have the winter blues.read more[...]
As we celebrate the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday, I am reminded of his historic “I Have A Dream” speech. In front of a captivated crowd, Dr. King shared his dream of freedom and equality in an electrifying speech that advanced the civil rights movement and cemented his place in American history. Now imagine yourself in front of the Lincoln Memorial ready to address a crowd[...]
Every weekend my husband and daughter steal away for an afternoon of daddy daughter time. Which sounds like the perfect time to catch a movie, luxuriate in a hot bath or curl up and get lost in a good book. But instead of spending that quiet time doing something that I enjoy, what do I do? Spend the whole time doing laundry, running errands, and tackling my never-ending to do lis[...]
My family was recently featured as The Coolest Black Family In America on Ebony Magazine's website, Ebony.com. I love the way the article turned out! The writer did a phenomenal job capturing the essence of who we are as a couple and as a family. After being interviewed for almost 2 hours, she was able to perfectly sum up what really makes our relationship work in one sentence: read[...]
