Life can be overwhelming at times, and lately it feels like everything is so much more acute. All of our feelings are so much more visceral and so much more 0 to 100, I don’t know if we’re willing to simply sit with out feelings a lot more. It’s all reaction based. A couple of…
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The Lies We Tell Ourselves
I Wish Someone Would Have Told Me Pt 2: Vulnerability
I was always shown the stoic, resilient, strong female, they are celebrated in our family (as they most definitely should be), but sometimes I wish I knew about their worries. Their fears, feelings of inadequacies, their challenges. Being pregnant with 16 children and birthing 11 healthy gives you some type of superhuman strength, but maybe…
Read MoreFinding Courage
This blog post came about in an interesting way, so the other day I was having a conversation with a friend who then said to me, “I wish I was as brave as you, you were unhappy in your personal situation and you decided to do something about it.” For a few seconds, I genuinely…
Read MoreBreaking Patterns
I’ll start off by saying, I never wanted to be a single mother (I’m sure not many people do), I always thought that when my time for motherhood would come about, I would be settled and in a long term and long lasting relationship. Yet, somehow in my core, I kind of knew I would…
Read MoreI Wish Someone Would Have Told Me Pt 1: Single Parenting
Parenting, parenting, parenting!!! Gah!! There is so much they don’t tell you in the books and so much you are constantly learning! A lot, they never tell you! Adding to that, doing it alone is whole other mental trip! This week on the blog, we’re launching a new mini series of things we wished someone…
Read MoreWhy We Still Blog
As our four year blogversary approaches, I thought it might be interesting to sit and think about the reason(s) why we still churn out a weekly blog and maybe think about, is anyone reading this mini blog anyways? Sometimes, it’s good to do some housecleaning and there’s simply no time like the present to do…
Read MoreOur Life Altering Playlist
The suns out, the vitamin D is on tap, summer vibes are fully in the air and what screams summer more than blasting music from your car as you cruise down the road? I am that person who cannot put the car into D until there is music coming out of my speakers. I don’t…
Read MoreBook Review: Girl, Woman, Other
I got this book as a birthday present back in December, I had seen it as one of the “trendy” books to read in the past year. After seeing it on so many book blogs and tons of Instagram accounts, I felt let out, so I wanted to give it a read! Call it peer…
Read MoreEmotional Parenting
I don’t know how you grew up, but for a part of my childhood- it was very much a whatever your parents say goes. Growing up in a Caribbean household, meant you didn’t push back, you don’t challenge and most of all you never saw your parents in a position where they were “equals”, let…
Read MoreSteady Love
I close my eyes,And it’s you,I reach my hand out,And you’re there to meet me,A smile breaks out across my face,I look up and yours is there to meet mine,I stumble,And your arms are there to steady me,The girl who always thought she could and would do it on her own,Was met with a love…
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