Homecoming season always brings up mixed feelings. It forces you to remember who you used to be. The friendships, the fallouts, the mistakes, the versions of yourself you outgrew. And it’s funny, in a sad way, how some people can hold on to a grudge or a storyline for ten, fifteen, twenty years like time…
Most of the pain in co‑parenting comes from trying to control things that were never yours to carry. And if we’re being honest, a lot of us don’t realize we’re doing it until the consequences show up in our child’s behavior. Co‑parenting will humble you. It will show you every part of yourself that still…
This may be a hard pill to swallow for some—even you, if you find yourself in this space—but healing isn’t always a shared experience. Healing looks and feels different for everyone. Every situation is different. Every coping style is different. Everything is different. The one thing that stays the same? You don’t owe anyone access…
Love has always been the most uncomfortable form of ‘comfortable’ I’ve ever known. It stretches you, softens you, exposes you, and teaches you things you didn’t even know you needed to learn. I’ve risked my heart more times than I can count, not because I enjoy the pain, but because I’ve always believed that real…
There comes a point in every grown woman’s life when she realizes that being “grown” has very little to do with age and everything to do with capability, character, and how she carries herself. These aren’t standards rooted in perfection or performance. They’re rooted in self‑respect, self‑sufficiency, and the kind of womanhood that makes you…
If I could sit my younger self down and tell her three things, this would be one of them. One of the clearest lessons I learned during that strange, still season of “quarantwenty‑twenty” was this: You do not have to be a kind of woman. Every woman deserves the space to be exactly who she is…
When I first started writing, I wasn’t a mother yet. I was just a woman with a voice, a dream, and a growing audience. And then, right as my work began to take shape in the world, I found out I was going to be a mommy. By the time the pandemic hit, my daughter…
I don’t talk about my beliefs often because people can be reckless with their opinions. And I’m finally at a place in my life where I don’t argue with ignorance. Still, I also refuse to sit quietly while someone disrespects the God who has carried me through every season of my life. Yes, we are…