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To Families Of Kids Who Have Considered Suicide When The World Is Just Too Damn Much

I have mentioned in a previous post that there is a saying in the Learning and Leadership world of “…we can only lead as far as we’ve gone ourselves.” Your kids deserve to have emotionally healthy people around them and so do you. They deserve your love and so do you. They deserve you at your best and you deserve the same. They deserve to live to see every sunrise and every sunset. So. Do. You.
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Our Thoughts: The Reckoning

Although we are bombarded with information of all kind at every turn, we can bring our thoughts under control. 2 Timothy 1:7 in the King James version of the Bible says that “God hath not given us a spirit of fear, but of power, and of love, and a sound mind.” It is that same power, love and sound mind that will support us in creating love, justice and liberation in ourselves and in the world.
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It’s Already In You

Whether you are passing on the ability to dream dreams, to love fully and unapologetically or to work towards justice, it all starts from a very special place: Inside of you! Your benevolent ancestors made sure of it!
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Healing & Leading the Way

This work is necessary in order re-imagine radical love through justice in the earth. And, it is time to be about the work of fully reconstructing them in our internal and external worlds.
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The Poem I Will Never Write

You will forever be that forbidden poem that I will never write, but whose words will dance and sing in my heart. I will go on to write many pieces, for that is what makes me feel connected to humanity. But that poem is sacred…
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Are You “Should-ing” on People?

We live in a society that shoulds all over us. This “should-ing” as I am starting to call it or “Should Statements” are actually one of a number of what psychologists call, Cognitive Distortions.
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Poem: Senses of Real Love

Real Love smells like the most essential of essential oils. It sounds like the laughter of children, a birds Liberation Song and a Jill Scott run. Real Love tastes like mangoes & strawberries suspended in ice dancing in a chilled glass of uncontaminated clear, healing water. Real Love feels like a well washed blanket just […]
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Prose: The Audacity to Prevail

“…As we breathe in what has been, we exhale into existence the blessings, the power and the audacity to prevail…”
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Poem: When Our Good Will Snaps

It is hard to watch when our Good Will snaps. When the Rocky storms of life collide come in like a flood agitating pain and fueling ego-informed decisions.
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Hold on to THIS Receipt!

Excerpt: “May the person named reclaim that they and the generations that are to come are free and can continue to live from a place of liberation, health, love, prosperity and bountiful joy.”
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Poem: She Who Names the Flames

What you couldn’t comprehend was the fact that those very same flames were the very exact same ones my Ancestors taught me to tame.
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Are You Open to Aha! Moments?

Whether they are epiphanies regarding your job, relationships inside or outside of your home, or even a new venture you are embarking upon, give yourself permission to take it in, roll it around in your head and heart, learn from it and chart your course!
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