Greetings and thanks for taking the time to hang out with me. Today, I’m chatting to Naomi Davidson who is a well-being consultant and she’s all about empowering Sista’s. She got in touch as a result of the series I did on wounded daughters to ask if I would be on the panel for her event ( […]
Category: RELATIONSHIPS
YOG29: The 7 Keys to Black Empowerment: #2 Use Your Tools.
Many of us are not taught emotional literacy in our families because survival is the default way of being. Feelings are not allowed so you deny, suppress, numb out and react whenever you feel unsafe. Emotional sobriety is our ability to feel and cope with our emotions. This helps us to respond instead of reacting to […]
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 […]
How to Maintain Hope
Greetings Family, How do you maintain a sense of hope inside the insanity of racism (white supremacy) ? Today, I share about the power of hope when we’re willing to go to any lengths to heal. The episode includes. The hope formula The joy of blackness Lovin’ on our melanin magic. Let it begin with […]
What is Racial Intimacy?
Greetings Family, I hope you are having an amazing, constructive week! Today’s topic in the FAQ series is at the core of what it really means to love ourselves, and each other. Understanding and embracing racial intimacy, empowers us to stand in the truth of who we are without apology! Rise! Your Sista in service, […]
My First Guest Blog Post
Greeting family, This is a Yard of Greatness milestone! I am so humbled to have my first guest blog post published on Dr Stacey Patton’s website. A feisty US journalist, who is an unapologetic advocate for black children who have experienced abuse from their parents. There is also a podcast to accompany the post which […]
TBS15: Recovery Step 3 – Are White People Your Higher Power?
Greetings family, In this show, I explore how the image of white Jesus and the religion of white supremacy (Christianity) maintains a spiritually abusive power dynamic where white people have become our Higher Power. In 12 step recovery, step 3 is when we, ‘Made the decision to turn our will and our lives over […]
TBS13: Codependency and Detaching With Love.
In this episode, I share on the subject of codependency, which is the destructive form of self abandonment we adopt in response to living under the system of racism (white supremacy). Details of the show are as follows: What is racial codependency within the system of white supremacy? What is codependency in relationships? The […]
TBS10: 3 Ways To Practice Revolutionary Self Compassion.
Greetings Family, In this episode, I share 3 empowering ways to practice revolutionary self compassion. Details discussed are as follows: What is self compassion? Why does it matter? Why is it hard for us to practice self compassion? How racism, (white supremacy) feeds our self abandonment. Racist projection Amos Wilson defines projection The 3 tools […]