Oxygen First

Chronic stress takes a toll on your health. Increased stress can derail any healthy eating plan and cause you to lose sleep. It is the...

Rest is Restorative

If I am eating right and exercising but not getting enough rest, my hormonal balance goes off. I can lose 2-3 pounds just by getting...

Immune System Hack

Some of us have been in a chronic state of imbalance. What foods cause your nose to get stuffy? What foods give you gas? What foods cause...

Complex Sex Management

I have said it before, but it warrants saying again, women are not the weaker sex, we are the more complex sex. No matter how much I am...

Love Them Through the Pain

Two things can happen if you love someone who lost the “parent lottery”. One, they can be stuck in the cycle of their parents or two,...

Parent Lottery Part 3

Even if you hit the jackpot in the “parent lottery” or got more blessings than a losing ticket, you still have a HUGE responsibility, you...

Parent Lottery Part 2

If you got a losing ticket in the “parent lottery”, you have the greatest opportunity of all, you get to turn things around to...

Parent Lottery Part 1

Some people hit the jackpot in the “parent lottery” and some got a losing ticket. There are also some that didn’t quite hit the big...

Yes, No, Be Still

I was talking to my niece about a difficult decision she is facing and I gave her advice that I wish I would have had earlier in life. I...

Pandemic and More

These last 18 plus months have been difficult for us. In addition to life's everyday obstacles, we have been personally walking through...

Collateral Damage

One of the ways that I maintain my happiness is by trying not take things personally. Most days it works for me. But I must admit, some...

Each Human's Purpose

I was listening to a message by Bishop T.D. Jakes the other day and he said something that really resonated with me. It also caused me to...

Prejudice 101

I have been thinking about prejudice a lot lately. Not only the kind that we mostly think about when we think about the word, but the...

The G***** Word

When I was younger, there was a saying, "Sticks and stones may hurt my bones but words can never hurt me". Sometimes words hurt more...

Masks Off At Home

So many of us were raised in homes where certain conversations did not place. Sometimes it is hard to openly discuss your feelings when...

Take Off The Mask

One of the barriers to happiness and success is not acknowledging or dealing with hurt. We have to stop pretending that everything is ok...

YOU are The Future

Don't let anyone define who you are for you. People have sacrificed and died so that you can be who God put you on this earth to be. You...

Know Him for Yourself

Whether we allow ourselves to admit it or not, a lot of what we know is learned passively. We rarely actively go out and seek knowledge....

Happiness Through Honor

One of the ways that we maintain our happiness is by honoring in life, those that mean a lot to us. Celebration of those that we love and...

Maintain Your Balance

It is really easy to get caught up in madness. Sometimes you get sucked into the vortex before you even know it. Maintaining balance is a...

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