From Glory to Glory

Many times we find ourselves in situations where we know better not to get involved. These unhealthy relationships or connections that we seemingly attract, in which we become caught up in the newness, the glamour, and the whirlwind of emotions and find ourselves hopelessly a prisoner of love. These relationships or connections sole purpose is to sidetrack or destroy you. I often tell myself, look, listen and learn...and pay attention as life is always trying to teach us something. I have learned over the years how we shape our realities and future by our choices and decisions.  We engage in conversations, meetings, contracts and relationships that are  all wrong for us. What I have not understand in my years on this earth is why? Why, when we know that if we venture in uncharted territory,  with imminent signs of danger,  we still move forward. We become the cause of our own demise. Yet over and over, we blame others for our misfortunes but we fail to blame...

You just know that you're being shifted, when you're most uncomfortable, less bothered by the status quo and in a period of quietude, where you are just observing it all and you refuse to speak about anything of significance or noteworthy. As you have learned the wisdom of being still and keeping your business to yourself.  All this means is that you are in a state of transition and something wonderful is occurring in your life... This is it...you are getting ready to expand, where your daily contractions are pretty close together and are preparing you for your season of birthing. Now one thing  I have realized, is that out of these moments of uncertainty and ebbs and flows, something dynamic is taking place. You are about to be shifted. I truly believe that after you have fought enough, failed enough, sacrificed enough, learned enough, and have been stretched enough one thing is for certain... you have to move in another direction. Why? The status quo is simply ...

I was thinking the other day, how the world is so inudated with success stories, social media posts from businesses, entrepreneurs, motivational speakers, preachers and the average Joe. All of these people showcasing and highlighting the successes in their lives. THE IMAGE OF SUCCESS It lets me know that many people are working and living purposeful lives... or so it seems. As many share stories that warrant the attention and the likes of others, saying, look at me, this is what I am doing. I must be successful as I just spoke to a room of 1000 people the other day and I have over 5000 friends and over 100,000 views. Today, more than ever, the world is out doing a whole lot of phenomenal things. It amazes me the good that I see paraded by many persons especially on social media. The many pages of experts and authorities on life, health, love, wealth and business is phenomenal. I may venture to say that over the last decade social media has built and ...

Latest Release Broken Wings: From Hurt to Hope It' s already December 2016 and I made it to the last month of the year and it feels darn good!  Upon being grateful that I made it to this point in the year, I also have some wonderful news to share with you. I recently published my first book which so happens to be connected to my blog. You see, I started writing during a period of my life, where I was overcome with darkness, as I was going through a period of heartbreak and depression. This blog was therapeutic for me, it helped me write through my pain and thus one day, I sat still long enough to pen words that eventually became my first book, "Broken Wings: From Hurt to Hope.  My book chronicles my experience where I battled depression and tells my very own personal story of how I navigated through one of the most painful times in my life. It is as about as real as you can get. I hope that my book, just as I hope my blog is an encouragement to someone that needs to ...

ALL NATURAL...ME!!! October was a month that propelled me into something different...I did it! I did the Big Chop! Anybody who knows me know I may be a little bit of a prima donna or a better choice of word that my friends would describe me as...DIVA! I usually love changing up my hairstyles from braids, chic cuts, weaves and having a blast with colour. My deep propensity for change is where a lot of my problems began..I'm the one that loves to try something new and often seek adventures. Recently, I had  this notion after the passing of Hurricane Matthew to do something different with my life, so I ended up chopping off my hair. Truth is, I had done enough damage through chemical processing, over bleaching my tresses that my hair had almost given up on life. I finally decided after much thought and reservations to step out on a limb and risk it. What was I risking anyway? I was taking a risk by stepping into the unknown and doing something that I never did before, emb...

PAPER PLANES IN FLIGHT...READY, SET, GO! Well, I know you are probably wondering about the title of my post, but I could not come up with a better one to share with you. It was the best I could have come up with at the time. Words do fly, and let me prove it to you... The last few weeks I was in a training workshop and one of the activities I chose to do with my participants is to let them make paper planes. You know the ones we use to create when we were kids. Now, it is pretty funny and nearly impossible to convince and lead a group of grown adults in the making of a little paper plane but my class went along with me on the adventure. We folded our papers and made our wings, some more perfectly than others but they managed to get through the exercise. The next step was to write their names on one side of a wing and something positive about themselves, using adjectives that were affirming not negative. They were also told to write on the other wing a generic inspirational, ...

WHAT I LEARNED ABOUT THE FAMILY?  Last week my maternal side of my family had a Family Reunion. We connected after some time as the need grew, for bringing the many groups of the family together.  It was an exciting time as some of our family from different parts of the world descended upon our Island of New Providence here in the Bahamas. I reckon that it would be a time of getting to know new people and sharing, but it was so much more than just meeting one another. The experience of the moment we shared in our Reunion last week allowed me to reflect on the family. We span several countries, the USA, Cuba and the Bahamas, our roots are very deep in these places. I learned that we are interconnected, interracial and interdependent. We are a large group that are located in many places and that is why there is a need to reconnect every now and then. The last time we met, some people have passed on and gone home and then there is the new generation that is emerging that ne...