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10 Years Single and What I've Learned

  Hey Loves,  For those who have been keeping up with my blogposts, I  blogged at my 7th year mark about me being 7 years single and what I've learned. Now I'm at my 10 year mark and I have learned so much since 3 years ago. I am so ready to share with you what I've learned and some of my experiences. I told God in 2011 that I could be single for the next 10 years because I was so broken. I told God let me travel, heal me, help me walk in my purpose and so much more and well that happened and more!  In 10 years I've learned... Power of patience and prayer.-  I learned not only the power of covering my future husband in prayer but I grew in prayer when it came to myself. I grew in prayer when it came to asking God to break off my strongholds. I became more patient with myself in my struggles, flaws and accepting myself. I grew patient when I decided to get to know different men and date. Learning and getting to know different guys helped me to understand men more...

Reasons Why I Take My Meds and Maybe You Should Too?

  Me with my two prescriptions and my "Everybody Vs. Stigma" tee shirt Hey Loves!       Hope you are doing okay during this pandemic?! I wanted to share this blogpost on "reasons why I take my meds" in 2017 but it was too emotional for me. Now that I'm growing in my mental health advocacy, people are sharing with me their gratitude in my transparency. This causes me to want to blog even the more in sharing my journey with mental illness into mental wellness. I'm not sure if you are struggling with the idea of taking medication because you feel you don't need it. You are so afraid of what others will think of you and even a potential partner. You feel like you don't want to become "addicted" to the medication. You feel pill shamed and that it has something to do with not having enough faith in God as a Healer. You are so ashamed of your mental diagnosis and are so ashamed of taking medication. You do NOT want to be labeled as "CRAZY...