Category Archives: community

I am not your social justice Mammy.

  About 4 years ago, after an experience at a training I was assisting a former liberal white female friend who was leading a training (where I was one of perhaps 3 Black Women out of the hundreds of women … Continue reading

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Black Women in Service? Well first…

I am a single child free single woman, I live in NY city and there are days where the only men who speak to me…are asking me for money. Continue reading

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When You Believe in the Power of Imagination

Once a month on Sundays when I’m in NYC, I try to make it to meditation class.   One of my favorite meditation teachers is Kadam Morten Clausen.  Kadam Morten is the  Resident Teacher at KMC-NYC, Eastern US National Spiritual Director for … Continue reading

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Soft Enough to Bend and Grow

I look back at my recent past experiences with relationships and I see how weak I was with the facade of “strong black woman”. Continue reading

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Don’t wait Participate! 4-2-17 NYC Actions

In the spirit of Maxine Waters…speak truth to power.
Speak up. Act up. Resist. Rise up. Support and be relentless in radical acts of Self Care.

Here’s a list of diverse actions you can take This WEEK from your couch or actually showing up in person, to be a part of creating the change that you wanna see in this country. Continue reading

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Do You Believe?

The one positive thing I’m holding onto from this election is the power of belief.  I see a person, who said they were going to do something ,when many people laughed and said it was never possible…this person, set an … Continue reading

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Birth of a Nation, Nate Parker and Fox. Hmmmm…..Know your brand.

These are  about 6 large companies who own all Mass Media in the USA. Comcast The Walt Disney Company Time Warner Fox CBS Corporation Viacom These large companies control the bulk of what we watch on TV, Film and read in … Continue reading

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137 Black women Died today. Anyone Care? GirlTrek Cares.

137 black women die every day in America due to heart disease.  That’s more than gun violence or AIDS yet we don’t hear about this in the news. Can you imagine the uproar if news came out that 137 white … Continue reading

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Learning to Respect Religions

  Our society seems to be obsessed with simplicity and categorizing people into boxes.  I strongly believe the root cause of all that keeps human kind together is this need to throw away our oneness and divide ourselves into teams. … Continue reading

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Growing fresh.

I recently saw an old client of mine.  I led a private JourneyDance™ class for her bridal shower around this time last year.   We had not seen one another since the class and I cut my hair last fall. … Continue reading

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