Heal

Letting Go

One of the hardest things about the healing process is letting go of control. Many of us have experienced so much pain, that our lives have become a compulsive mission to control everything around us so that we feel safe. We’re desperate to feel secure because our wiring has been all chaos, unpredictability and mistrust. Staying […]

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Self – Intimacy

Recycled racial pain means that intimacy is often confused with self abandonment, smothering and chronic care taking. You co-dependently cram your emotional space with the needs of others in order to belong, connect and feel ‘loved.’ When this becomes a default pattern in your life, being seen then becomes a painful trigger for shame and […]

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Self Compassion

One of the characteristics of being out of alignment, is when we lose touch with our humanity. With the endless demands of life and the exhaustion of living under white supremacy, we’re numb to our own basic needs. The result is that we become trapped in the doing instead of staying present in the being. As black women, we’re […]

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Recovery Step 2 Reflections

Step 2: Came to believe that a power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity. Many of us have lost hope under the oppressive grind of white supremacy. You don’t trust anyone who looks like you because of the recycled family trauma. You also don’t trust white people because they consciously and unconsciously act […]

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