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Quiet Quitting…Also Known As Boundaries
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Get In Before You Lean In
[vc_row css_animation=”” row_type=”row” use_row_as_full_screen_section=”no” type=”full_width” angled_section=”no” text_align=”left” background_image_as_pattern=”without_pattern”][vc_column][vc_column_text]Why “Leaning In” (and other hashtag advice) isn’t the silver bullet for black women in a still-white-dominated corporate world. Disclaimer: I’m not the angry black woman, let’s just take that off the table, which technically says something given that I have to put that out there. I’ve lived…
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Leverage the Lull: 3 Things to Build Right Now
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The Most Overlooked Aspect of Self Care
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3 Mindsets to Drop Immediately
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Got Empowerment?
What are you waiting for? Words have power; so, let’s talk about this word: empowerment. Empowerment, the word, is everywhere and everyone wants to give it to you. It sounds good and motivational, but what is it really? 2020 is here and EVERYONE wants to empower you. By definition, empowerment is “the granting of the…
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Surviving and Thriving through the 2020 Election Season
A brief guide for keeping and maintaining relationships (and your sanity) through November 2020 and beyond Disclaimer: This post is for all of us living in Grown-up Land. If you haven’t arrived, that’s okay. Visit my post from August to help you get there, so you can hang with all of us grown ups. Secondly,…
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Grounded in Gratitude…Building and Growing Your Gratitude Muscle (Part II)
In Part I of this Gratitude journey, I suggested some introspective activities you can do to become more mindful of your blessings and the things you are grateful for. (If you missed it, check out last month’s blog HERE!) Today’s post is all about interacting with others and how it can help underline thankfulness today…
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Grounded in Gratitude…Building and Growing Your Gratitude Muscle (Part I)
Face it…sometimes we lose track of our blessings and take it all for granted, or get complacent and become disingenuous with our thanksgiving. I’ve personally sent up some waning. distracted prayers. We’ve all had days when we’ve just bounced from frustration to disappointment to anger, forgetting all sorts of good things we have going for…
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Welcome to Grown-up Land…come on in
Full transparency: I really don’t like this new catch phrase “adulting”. I mean, there are 40-year-olds using the phrase to describe an abdication of responsibilities. Living in Grown-up Land isn’t some esoteric concept. Being a responsible, productive part of society is the natural progression in life. It’s not some new phrase that just got slapped…