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Continue reading →: There Is Nothing New Under the SunPatterns, Cycles, and the Art of Seeing What Comes Next Every time I think I have arrived at a new realization, I eventually recognize it for what it is. “There is nothing new under the sun.”Ecclesiastes This is not a statement of defeat. It is a statement of clarity. Human…
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Continue reading →: Work Is My Red CarpetI don’t wait for special occasions to wear beautiful things. If I did, most of my life would pass me by. Sometimes I want to go to work simply because I get to wear my fur coat, a statement piece I love, or something beautifully made that usually gets labeled…
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Continue reading →: Seeing Yourself While You’re Still AliveThis isn’t about low self esteem. It’s possible to feel fine about who you are and still not really see yourself. Not because you dislike yourself, but because your attention is constantly somewhere else.When life gets busy, attention turns practical. You focus on what needs to get done. Work, kids,…
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Continue reading →: Beauty isn’t RushedWe were told beauty is rare. Like a limited resource you either catch at the right time or miss completely. Like something you peak into and then slowly lose if you don’t work hard enough to keep it. We were told beauty has an age. A look. A body type.…
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Continue reading →: Nothing Changed Except MeThe moment you come to a point where the anger fades, the expectations stops, and you no longer feel the need to explain yourself… you’ve outgrown stagnation. This realization doesn’t happen in just one relationship. It shows up across your life infamily dynamics, co-parenting, work, and friendships. Anywhere growth is…
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Continue reading →: The Body Was Never a TrendFashion didn’t invent the silhouette. It learned how to build it. Across fashion history, body ideals have shifted, but the fascination with curves has remained remarkably consistent. In the Victorian era, bustles were designed to exaggerate hips and fullness, engineering a shape that closely resembled bodies many Black women already…
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Continue reading →: Luxury, LatelyFor a long time, I thought luxury was something you could point to. A bag. A car. A seat at the front of the plane. Something visible enough to say, without words, that you were doing well. But over time, that definition started to feel incomplete. As we know, quality…
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Continue reading →: The Double Life: The Mom & The Femme FataleThere is a quiet truth many women carry but rarely speak out loud. You can be a mother and still be that femme fatale. You can pack lunches in the morning and still walk into a room with a presence that makes people look twice. You can guide your children…
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Continue reading →: The Soft Life of a Retired WorkhorseThey trust her with their secrets, their crises, their confusion, their pain. She becomes the person everyone calls when life gets heavy. For years she moved through the world like a workhorse: strong, dependable, unbreakable, aways pushing through because everyone needed her to be “the strong one”. The role becomes…
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Continue reading →: “By Any Means Necessary”Malcolm X said it first, and I feel it in my bones now more than ever. Not violence and not chaos, but pure commitment. It means doing what you have to do to create the life you want. For me, that commitment shows up as sacrifice, and that sacrifice is…
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