Your Day and Beyond

 It’s exhausting being strong for everyone in your life and taking on their burdens and pushing your desires, needs and wants to the back burner. I want to help you dismantle the faulty beliefs that support an unhealthy lifestyle of putting everyone else’s needs above your own and learn how to be your own rescuer.

Our past is our foundation and it’s what a lot of our beliefs are rooted in. But what if a lot of what we believe about ourselves is based on faulty information? How do you dismantle those beliefs that are ingrained in every fiber of your being?

During this time of year, it’s a good time to reflect back and learn from the lessons the previous year taught you.  By reflecting on what didn’t go well and why, it gives you important information about how you can be better in the next year.  Embracing your life lessons, learning from them and using what you learned to be a better you is how you create a path to New and Better Things in the year 2023.

Dating today is way different than it was 25 -30 years ago.  It has evolved from courtship to casual dating.  30 years ago, the purpose of dating was to get married but today dating is more of a means to an end that doesn’t necessarily mean marriage. Nowadays people date for many reasons.. It may be for companionship,  casual sex or to find their soulmate. If you’re dating with the end goal of marriage, you’re dating with intention but if you’re dating with no real purpose in mind, you’re casually dating. 

Navigating life comes with its own set of challenges but navigating necessary changes to be our best selves and reach our life goals can be an even bigger challenge. Sometimes it’s not clear what you should do or what’s keeping you stuck in a cycle that makes it difficult for you to change.  That’s why life coaching has become so popular and necessary for our mental well being. 

Many of us don’t think about the dangers of childbirth until it directly impacts us but 700 women a year die during pregnancy or within the 1st year of giving birth. Black women are 3x’s more likely to die from pregnancy-related causes than White women. Today I’m talking with Boho Mama the Doula and Herbalist, Shardae Simpson about her life as a Doula and how we all can do more to reduce black maternal mortality.

Women have always been aware of relationship inequalities.  We’ve been getting the short end of the stick, especially when we started working outside the home.  The domestic responsibilities for some women didn’t decrease when they took on a more active role in contributing to the financial responsibilities. We’ve accepted these inequalities as gender roles but more and more women are redefining our roles in our relationships to be more aligned,  equitable and balanced.

Love happens when you least expect it but you can position yourself for love to find you. Be an attraction magnet for love, by holding space for love and keeping your energy vibration high and choosing to be happy no matter what.  But you should also be visible by moving outside your comfort zone and social circle.  

During the pandemic, American businesses started experiencing what experts are calling the great resignation. That’s why it was no surprise to learn that women own 31% of small businesses in the U.S. and that 17% of black women are in the process of starting or running a new business.

There’s a misconception that for a certain group of people, there are limitations on what they can have or who they can be. Many people who are poor believe they will always live in poverty because life has always been that way for them and many women believe they can’t have a family and a successful career because they’ve been told they can’t have it all. These misconceptions continue to have a stronghold on people, even though there are plenty of examples of rags to riches stories and examples of women who are living life on their own terms and thriving. These limiting beliefs are holding so many women back from being who they desire to be.