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Sep 21

How Did You Find Your Voice?

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source:pinterest by GG of AllTheManyLayers.com When you want what everyone else wants, without discretion, you do what you see everyone else doing. When you believe that what you see, what's presented to you, is all there is, you try to choose a mold to squeeze into, even if it hurts, even if you can't breathe, even if you have to…

Sep 21

You are Fully Capable of Pleasing Yourself.

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by GG of AllTheManyLayers.com I was old enough to feel like a woman but young enough to be shy about it. I used to sit in my bedroom in front of the mirror pretending someone was watching me. Usually that someone was my crush of the moment or someone I wished would notice me. Read On!>>> This was my time…

Sep 21

“THAT IS NOT A PROTECTIVE STYLE!”

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by Yolanda Renee of Etcblogmag.com Naturalistas, did you know there is a great debate going on about protective styling? What is a protective style to you? There is actually an argument out in the natural hair universe that if you wear weaves and wigs YOU ARE NOT NATURAL. Guess what, there is even an arguments that suggests, if you have…

Sep 21

When ‘I’m not ready’ really means, ‘I’m not worthy’

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source by GG of AllTheManyLayers.com Do you know how it feels to want something so badly that you dread it? I'm talking about pushing away the very thing you want most, the very life you want most. Because deep down you don't believe that you can have it. Because you've romanticized it and your expectations have gotten so high that…

Sep 21

why can’t we talk about sadness?

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source by GG of AllTheManyLayers I think the sadness started with my first awareness that my mother was sick. It meant that everything safe and beautiful was also tragic and temporary. All of my life has been about coping with that. Sadness lives underneath my skin. It sits in my stomach and my throat and right behind my eyes. It…