Prioritizing You: Starting Over as a Single Mom

Being a single mom can be an overwhelming experience, especially when starting over after a difficult transition. The process of rebuilding your life after a breakup or divorce can be daunting, but with a positive attitude, determination, and a support system, it is possible to achieve success and happiness. And sometimes it’s ok to just […]

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Your health is important (schedule the appt)

I can’t be the only mom to put off doctor’s appointments. I can honestly say it’s not that I don’t care about my health. I just find any and everything else to do instead. Sometimes to the detriment of my health and well-being but I find that’s true for a lot of moms. We are […]

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Delayed not denied: Bachelor’s degree in your 30’s

It’s ok to get your degree later in life. The day is finally here, the day I graduate with my bachelor’s degree! I know it seems sort of silly to some that I am just now accomplishing this but to others it will make perfect sense. This is a moment to be proud and celebrate […]

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Things I wish I Knew Before Starting College

Once you entered your senior year of high school everyone expects you to know what you want to do once you graduate and honestly most people don’t! I had this idea that I wanted to be a pastry chef and if you see my college transcripts you can see I survived a semester of culinary […]

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Skills and tools to pick back up in 2021

At the end of 2019 there was no way I would have imaged this is how 2020 would turn out but here we are rounding out the year for me personally still working from home.  It has been a bit of a challenge trying to find a healthy balance and I’m still not all the […]

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Learning Self-Love and Breaking harmful family norms

Love yourself: Recently, I was the recipient of an advanced reader copy of The Self-Love Revolution Radical Body Positivity for Girls of Color By: Virgie Tovar and it opened my eyes to a lot of negative self-talk and body images I had for myself and my family including some I thought I’d conquered. It’s a […]

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North Carolina in a day

I am a traveling expert! Kidding; this is only my second time flying and I have yet to fly with my family, so experience is still needed but I am getting there. This time I flew to Charlotte, North Carolina to hang with my friend and see the awe inspiring Lizzo perform. Yes, I planned […]

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Will run for cupcakes(keeping promises to myself)

I did a 5K! Not we did a 5K, I did a 5K! I’ve done them before but with a group of people or with family. This time was all on my own. I didn’t ask anyone to sign up with me. I didn’t back down when I realized hey! You are doing this alone. […]

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