Category: vulnerable
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Learning to Love with Eyes Wide Open
So recently I read the book ‘Sis, don’t settle’ written by Judge Faith Jenkins who played Judge Faith on a nationally syndicated arbitration-based court reality TV show. I first chanced upon this book when I saw a YouTube video where she was interviewed by On Relationships and Matters of the Heart. I was intrigued because…
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The Slow Life
So, I’ve been feeling pretty sick and run down for over a month now – nursing a bad cough and ribs that for some reason have been hurting to the point that it hurts to lie down in my left side. I think it’s part of the pressure of the hustle life – I’ve been…
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Look For The Glimmers
In a world full of triggers, perhaps we need to look for the glimmers. “And what are glimmers” you ask? Read this 2 min thought-piece to find out!
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Time Underwater
I wish we had more time together Things would look so different underwaterWhen you consider all the waysThis tale could unfurl Can you imagine a different world? One structured byThe raw materialsOf hope, love and truthWhere people can see Beyond their fears Where things unsaid aren’tMade to degradeWhere words and their shadesDon’t obscure but create…
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City of Angels
These streets are marked with sadnessThe alleyways and boulevards,This city of Angels and DevilsWhere opulence and poverty rub shouldersAnd sex is plied on the streetsBy numbered girls in short pleated skirts Thick eyeliner accentuatesTheir dulled eyesAnd bright pink lipstickBelies their hardened smilesIn a city that promised muchBut instead, took everything A few blocks away,Stand houses…
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Praxis
What does retraumatization and gaslighting in church look like? This is my own account of what I went through as a victim and survivor of domestic violence. I have since left this church.
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