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As humans, we inherently desire love, safety and community. It’s part of our nature. And while we do feel unsafe and experience loss from time to time, I’d like to believe that we do hope for these things, regardless. Never realizing that we had them all along. We seek love, security and belonging, because we…
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Many of us have emerged from our childhood years with feelings of inadequacy and concealed resentment that influence the way we perceive certain situations, events and people. Basically, we’re damaged goods. Even more so because we were never taught to love ourselves. One giant sign of lack of self-love is deriving our sense of worth…
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I fell into this belief that beauty is skin deep. Not just that, but that I don’t make the grade. To be honest, I have felt this way for as long as I can remember. Being overweight,then pimply, really made me self-conscious. In many respects, I unconsciously carry around those extra kilograms still. And this…
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I absolutely detest having to mask the way I feel. It’s just not in my nature. But, in the African culture which I am fully entrenched in, there are certain things that must not be done, said, or even thought. The patriarch of the family must act masculine, without a single speck of weakness or…
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