Self-preservation is Not Selfish
Through various points in my life, I’ve had several people call me selfish, mostly by men. In every instance, I was called that I immediately felt bad about myself and my actions. Being called selfish...
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Black & BRCA interview with Erica Stallings
BReast CAncer gene, BRCA 1 and BRCA 2, are two different genes that produce tumor suppression proteins in our body. When either of these genes are mutated or altered and not functioning properly cells are...
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Law of Attraction & Manifesting Success: What does it mean? & How to apply it
Over the past year or so I have been seeing a lot of blogs and social media posts about how to manifest your dreams. It’s a huge buzzword and tons of people are capitalizing off...
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Confronting Toxic Positivity and Faith: How Oversimplification of God and the Bible Perpetuates Feelings of Inadequacy
In the previous post about toxic positivity, I identified what toxic optimism is, and how it is used as a way to avoid and suppress feelings and emotions. I wanted to stress that ignoring “negative”...
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Avoiding Toxic Positivity
Everyone puts up a front at some point in their lives. Whether on social media, with friends and family or on their job. Very rarely are people 100% themselves at all times. It’s ingrained in...
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17 Questions to Self Discovery: Using Your Quarantine Time to Build Self Awareness
I am no stranger to times in which I had to take an involuntary timeout, and/or spent moments in isolation. The first time was when I was a preteen, and my siblings and I were...
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