I had work on Monday morning. A real job. Three children. Meetings. An alarm clock that was going to go off whether I was ready or not. And yet there I was at 1:00 AM, eleven episodes deep into The Polygamist on Netflix, fully hooked. Not because I needed to know which wife would stay….
High-functioning anxiety doesn’t look like falling apart — it
looks like over-preparation. A first-gen Black mom on the anxiety
nobody sees, and the panic attack I thought was a heart attack.
Your career identity after a layoff doesn’t disappear — but it does go quiet. And in that silence, most of us realize for the first time that we have no idea who we are without the job title. I know, because I’ve been there. With Oracle just announcing 20,000 to 30,000 global layoffs, I’ve been…
Losing yourself in motherhood is one of the quietest crises a woman can experience. There’s no dramatic breakdown. No clear moment when it happens. Just a slow, reasonable-looking swirl that pulls pieces of you inward — until one day you look around and realize you have disappeared somewhere inside the life you helped build. I…
If you’ve ever wondered how stress affects the body, I learned the answer in a way I couldn’t ignore — staring at a screen covered in red. Red spots.Everywhere. That was the day I stopped treating stress like a mindset problem and started seeing it as a body problem. I had gone to a chiropractor…
Everyone can build now. That’s not shade — that’s just the moment we’re living in. We are watching AI and storytelling collide in real time. You can vibe code your way to a website. You can prompt your way to a brand strategy. You can generate copy, visuals, workflows, and entire product frameworks in minutes….
If you’ve ever asked your child how their day was and gotten “good”… Or tried to check in after a meltdown and heard “I’m fine” through tears… You already know the struggle. Many of us are searching for how to build emotional vocabulary in kids because we can see the gap. We want fewer meltdowns….
If you’ve been around for this journey, you already know — I mentally redecorate spaces in my home all the time. It’s a problem. And also not a problem. 🙃 I have so many ideas for this house, and honestly? This is where my creativity shines. Give me a transitional space and a blank wall…