What started out as personal development became a spiritually healing experience that transformed my life; mainly because I learned to love myself. In 2017, I was laid off for what was the 3rd time in my 10ish year career as a graphic designer… I said to myself, “no more”. I…

The day that HR sat me down and told me that they’d be terminating my contract… I told my coworkers, “I’m a hustler.” In response to their grief that I had just been let go. This was in 2017. She reminds me every chance she gets. Sometimes you need people…

Environmental Justice is Racial Justice. Most people think that environmental justice is just electric cars and solar panels, but it’s much deeper than that. The very nature of how we live our lives and where we live are our environment. Where does the justice part fit into that? Why…

Dear Anxiety, Thank you for all you’ve done in order to keep me safe. Up until this point, I was not able to decipher danger or confront my PTSD and coping methods. Everything kept you flying, being busy kept you flying, and you flying kept me going, hummingbird. Rest now…

It’s been about 13 years probably, since I felt like myself. There was only a short window of time that I can say I was truly standing and living my own life without living in fear and trauma. I had 4 years where I was myself, deciding who I wanted…

The following was written and researched in the Fall of 2019 for a Graduate School course as I pursue my Master’s Degree in Social Innovation at Grand Valley State University. This research paper includes a narrative of my personal experience with race and racism. Since I have lived across the…

In times like this, when I can’t sleep or all I can do is sleep… it’s important to cling to hope. Hope that things are going to change, hope that every foot in the right direction is a step forward to change. There were times in my life when I…

I was taught to fear interactions with police. Maybe it was because at one point my family immigrated to the US or maybe it was because that’s what the community that I lived in did. I remember being fearful. But the time I spent living on my own as an…

I’ve been reflecting on motherhood and moms since 2011 when I held my precious baby boy for the first time. I was filled with a love that I had never known before, I also knew I would die before I let anything happen to him. …