“Love involves a peculiar, unfathomable combination of understanding and misunderstanding.” (Diane Arbus) This Is Us Let me start by saying that I am one of those people; The ones who cried every week at the TV show, This Is Us, and are feeling ridiculous grief over the show’s final season. It’s like […]
The Power of Loving (…and the Lovings that made it happen)
On June 11, 1967, I was seven and a half months old. On June 11, 1967, my husband, Amari, was six and a half years old. On June 11, 1967, “interracial marriage” was illegal in the Commonwealth of Virginia and 20 other states. If Amari and I had been adults at the time, […]
Lessons From My Mother: Sitting at the weird kids’ table
“Mothers are the Mt. Everest of Relationships.” (Tiffany Sankofa) Not That Kind of Blog So, before you go assuming that I had some wonderful relationship with my mother, we were best friends, blah blah blah… Please know this isn’t that kind of post. Neither is it the kind of post where someone gets deified simply […]
Lasting Change Step 4: Identity
“An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience.” (James Baldwin) Recap In Step One, you tuned into your gut brain and realistically assessed where you were in the Cycle of Readiness for Change. You worked through the Preparation Stage, figured out […]
Lasting Change, Step 3: The Power of Patterns
“Changes begets change as much as repetition begets repetition.” (Bill Drayton) Mini Review Ok! Look at you! You listened to all three brains and started to understand all the ways you feel about the change you want to make in Step One. Then you used that information to do excellent preparation. That helped you […]
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