"He's a genius," Maya told me later, adjusting her blazer. "People will always try to dim a bright kid's light so they feel taller. Our job is just to buy them bigger lightbulbs."
People hear you say you’re passionate and only think about the positive aspects of passion. I’m passionate in love but I’m also passionate in anger, sadness, disgust and everything else I feel.
You need boredom. A lot of it. Start by going on walks without music. No stimulation. No distractions of any kind. If you learn to sit with your own thoughts, for long enough, in time they will start serving you. You'll start having ideas once again. You'll start developing an extreme sense of clarity that will shift you into the next stage of your life. All by being bored, which is pretty insane.
Stop treating housekeeping like a punishment. Put on music, light the candles, burn the incense, and romanticize it. You’re not cleaning the house… you’re restoring order to your little kingdom.
make it a habit to bless everything. bless your days and nights. bless your beautiful body. bless your loved ones. bless your words before you speak. bless your future for all the magic that’s coming your way, and your past for the wisdom that it gave you. bless the angels around you. bless all the beauty you see so it can multiply. bless the health of your cells. bless your beating heart and the shield of energy around you. becoming someone who blesses everything puts you on the frequency of blessings.
I love reading David’s crash-outs in the Psalms. 😭 One minute he’s praising God, the next he’s pouring out his frustration about evil, injustice, and why the wicked seem to prosper. It’s comforting to know that even a man after God’s own heart brought his hardest questions to God.
being able to spend at least 1-2 hours a day without your phone, doing things like reading, painting, dancing, taking long baths, listening to classical music, sunbathing, going on walks listening to birdsong only, praying, meditating is a sign of a healthy nervous system. the more hours you can go without your phone, the better. give your brain and your body time to relax, unclench. romanticize it as if you’re living in the 90s.
It is imperative for a woman to take care of herself not only for self respect and self appreciation but also so she does not become bitter toward the women who do.
I sit quietly and realize that God has been taking care of me this whole time. Maybe not in luxurious ways. Maybe not an easy life. But through protection,provision, good health, surviving hard days and always having just enough to keep going.
I don’t want my daughter to be like me. I want her to speak up sooner. Walk away faster. Trust herself deeper. Apologize less. Take up more space. Ask bigger questions. Dream louder. And if that means she becomes everything I wasnt… GOOD!
I don’t ask for much so I genuinely appreciate a “I did this for you cause I realize you’re not feeling well” or “I bought this for you cause I know you’d like it” its just so kind and considerate 🥹
One way s*per v*lue is win off me is because I ain’t driving all around to find the cheapest groceries. I going to one store. Two max if it’s something I REALLY wanna make. I also don’t like stores that make me uncomfortable. That X-es out a lot.
Finances are a taboo topic for women but the only TRUE “soft life” you will ever have comes in the form of financial stability. You can get all the massages and do all the shopping but if your cortisol spikes every time rent is due or you have an emergency what is the point ?
Another form of low self esteem is definitely being too available to people who have shown you countless times that they lack a sense of urgency and enthusiasm towards you. I know its hard but regulate your nervous system to calm down.
You need to have hobbies/routines that stimulate your mind, increase your consciousness + aura, make you prettier, & cleanse you spiritually. Learn a new language, watch documentaries, read, write poetry, express yourself creatively, massage & dry brush your body, pray every day