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Sep 21

Redefining Yourself, for Yourself.

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by GG of AllTheManyLayers "People like me more when they think I'm pretty." I can't tell you when, but at some point in my childhood I began to believe this was true. This is what the media, my environment and even my mother taught me. The media taught me to compare myself to touched up, perfect images and the…

Sep 21

Try This When You Feel Stuck and Unmotivated

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by GG of AllTheManyLayers I thought I was lazy. I had many interests and ideas but I rarely saw anything through to completion. I saw fellow students and coworkers who were passionate, totally turned on by their work, as I looked on, wondering how that felt. I just wasn't inspired. I played the student/employee role well, but inside I always…

Sep 21

Sometimes Things Have to Fall Apart to Come Together

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by GG of AllTheManyLayers When you pray and ask for growth and then everything falls apart. Smile up at the heavens. Make peace with the process. Have faith. Sometimes I look at myself in the mirror and I don't feel beautiful. I look around at my life and it seems messy and ineffective. And yet I feel so brave.…

Sep 21

Little Girls, Natural Hair- “I want her to grow up seeing me embrace me.”

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by Christian Byshe' of www.chicandcoily.com My little girl is growing up in a household where mommy walks around the house with a lopsided kinky twa while simultaneously doing laundry, feeding the unwanted guinea pig, and furiously tapping away at her computer. Her view point of natural hair will be totally different because it is pretty much all she knows. She…

Sep 21

Three Questions.

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by GG of AllTheManyLayers I enjoy watching other people. I’m fascinated by how they move and interact with one another. Maybe that’s one reason why I enjoy reading and watching biographies. The statement “Every life has a story” is one of my favorite sayings. My social media page includes this statement, but it ends with “I’m living mine.” I guess…