Bathe your body with bath salts of self-reflection. Wash your hair of unnecessary excess. Trim the split ends of indecisiveness so confidence can grow evenly and strong. Use a pumice stone to gently exfoliate the callouses of comparisons, and of fear and doubt. Use the toner of total honesty to cleanse and brighten the skin …
Mahmoud Khedr, the speaker in the YouTube TEDx Talks publication “How Toxic Positivity Leads to More Suffering,” describes how positivity can be toxic. He explains that he was once a person who unknowingly exhibited toxic positivity. He utilized it to deal with bullying in high school, money problems at home, and carried it into his …
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We’ve all been there. The clock strikes twelve, we scream \”happy new year\” with loved ones and familiar faces around. We toast to a new year and a new sense of self. Slipping into our beds, too tired to bother cleaning up, our minds linger on all the goals we have planned for the new …
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Languishing Thankfully, writers and thinkers exist and can provide the public with a positive outlook and understanding of what we face and feel. According to Adam Grant, writer of the New York Times article \”There’s a Name for the Blah You’re Feeling: It’s Called Languishing,\” many people are feeling “a sense of stagnation and emptiness” …
Going into the new year and beyond, I look to not only better myself as a person but as a Black man. In doing so, it is also my personal mission to offer support to other Black men who seek to heal from their trauma. The following habits are practices I intend to pursue and …
The COVID-19 pandemic is the deadliest outbreak most can say they\’ve experienced, as only today\’s centenarians survived the Spanish flu of 1918. We find ourselves in a hole of historic depth, much too deep for any light to reach us. At the beginning of it all, we acted accordingly. Many were arrested to their beds …
For residents of the greater Washington DC area, such ER woes appear to be even worse than they are for most Americans. Data shared by the Milken Institute of Public Health of George Washington University reveal that the typical wait time in DC emergency rooms of 46 minutes is nearly twice the national average of 28 …
In addition, Black police officers still encounter racism on the job. However, they face additional challenges as they patrol the streets to keep communities safe. And so, my story begins about Black police officers – Black in Blue. People need and want to feel safe in their communities and everyday life. Protection must be provided. …
As the inimitable Stevie Wonder sang in 1976, “love’s in need of love today,” and especially so. On the heels of a classic white supremacist American presidency rivaling those of Woodrow Wilson and Andrew Jackson, hate in the homeland has skyrocketed. As a part of their yearly hate crime statistics report, the FBI found that …
As the inimitable Stevie Wonder sang in 1976, “love’s in need of love today,” and especially so. On the heels of a classic white supremacist American presidency rivaling those of Woodrow Wilson and Andrew Jackson, hate in the homeland has skyrocketed. As a part of their yearly hate crime statistics report, the FBI found that …
