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June 30, 2025

How to stop quietly quitting on yourself and Start getting emotional returns at work

You’re not burned out because you’re busy. You’re burned out because your spirit is suffocating. If your job drains your joy, silences your voice, and rewards your silence—that’s not growth. That’s loss. This is y…

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June 29, 2025

If you skip the hard parts of your story, you teach people to survive—Not to trust themselves.

If no one ever modeled full truth-telling, you’ll keep thinking your story has to be edited to be valid.But healing gets distorted when we only share the pretty parts.When we skip the grief, the rage, the silence—we’re not liberati…

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June 28, 2025

3 quick tips to beat perfectionism before it tricks you into thinking fear is laziness

That voice calling you lazy?It’s fear. Dressed in your family’s old survival rules.Your brain isn’t broken.It’s doing its job—protecting you from pain you haven’t had words for yet.What if your “procrastinat…

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June 27, 2025

3 signs your “emotional strength” is actually survival mode in disguise

You can look like you’re thriving—and still be stuck in survival mode.Just because you hold it down doesn’t mean you’re okay.When you’re always the one who “has it together,” it’s easy to forget what i…

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June 26, 2025

The best way to build a long-term business? Plan for emotional crashes, not just strategy

If your business can’t hold you when you break down, it’s not strong—it’s fragile.Some of y’all are scaling your services but ignoring your soul.You’ve got content plans, client funnels, and launch dates. But no p…

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June 25, 2025

3 ways to stop blaming anxiety when it’s really your nervous system protecting you

Anxiety isn’t the enemy. Misreading your body’s signals is.Most of us were raised to stay quiet, stay strong, and stay useful—even when we were falling apart inside.But healing starts when you stop performing strength and start lis…

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June 24, 2025

You might stay loyal to family- Until you realize staying silent means betraying yourself

You weren’t born scared to speak. You were taught that silence keeps you safe. A lot of us were. Especially if you grew up in a house where telling the truth meant “talking back” and “talking back” meant punishment or r…

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June 23, 2025

How To Feel Safe in your body again—Without pretending

You can be booked, brilliant—and still feel like your body is breaking.Most high-functioning women don’t look burned out. They look busy. Focused. On top of it.But inside, there’s a nervous system that never learned to rest.If you …

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June 22, 2025

Black Mental Health Is Not a Luxury—It’s a Lifeline

“We inherited trauma, survived it, and were told to be quiet about it. Black mental health isn’t just important—it’s urgent.” Let’s get something straight:Mental health in Black communities isn’t a tren…

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June 21, 2025

Breaking Generational Cycles: The Healing Starts With You, But It Doesn’t End With You

“You’re not crazy. You’re just the first in your family to say ‘this ends with me.’ That’s not dysfunction—that’s divine disruption.” Let’s be clear:Breaking generational cycles is not…

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June 20, 2025

Transformation Journeys: From Breakdown to Breakthrough, This is What Healing Really Looks Like

“Transformation doesn’t start with the glow-up—it starts when life guts you, and you have to decide whether you’ll rebuild or remain broken.” Everybody loves a success story.But what they don’t talk about eno…

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June 19, 2025

Boundaries & Self-Worth: Stop Shrinking to Keep the Peace That’s Costing You Yours

“Every time you betray yourself to make someone else comfortable, you teach your nervous system that your peace doesn’t matter.” Let’s be real.Boundaries are not about pushing people away.They’re about pulling your…

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June 18, 2025

Emotional Mastery: The Power Move That Heals You and Elevates Everything

“We don’t rise by emotion alone—we rise by mastering the emotions that once ran our lives.” Let’s talk about it. Too many of us were raised on emotional survival, not emotional intelligence.We know how to shut dow…

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June 17, 2025

Therapy & Self-Discovery: Learning to Sit With the Mirror, Not Just the Mic

“The biggest plot twist of my life? Realizing I needed therapy not because I was broken—but because I was tired of pretending I wasn’t.” Therapy isn’t for the weak—it’s for the warrior who’s final…

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June 16, 2025

The Truth About Trauma Recovery: You Can’t Heal What You Keep Hiding

"You survived the trauma, but are you surviving the aftermath?" Most people think trauma is the event. But what lingers long after the event ends—the way you brace for disappointment, the panic when the phone rings, the tension you hold i…

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June 15, 2025

Grief Isn’t a Season—It’s a Language We’re All Still Learning

“They told us time would heal everything. They forgot to mention what it would take from us first.” Grief doesn’t arrive on schedule, and it damn sure doesn’t leave quietly. It walks into your life uninvited, rearranges…

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June 13, 2025

Emotional Healing Is Not a Trend—It’s a Lifestyle Shift

“Before you grow, you’ve got to grieve. Before you heal, you’ve got to feel.” Let me be clear: Emotional healing isn’t just lighting sage, journaling in cute notebooks, or posting affirmations under the moonlight. Whil…

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June 13, 2025

The Trigger and The Truth: Where Healing Begins with Honest Conversation

The Trigger and The Truth: Where Healing Begins with Honest Conversation The Trigger and The Truth is a transformative mental health and wellness podcast that creates space for raw, authentic conversations about the breakdowns and breakthroughs in …

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