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Sweet November
Here we are in the 11th month of a year that has seemed to zoom by. October was gentle yet quick. The entrance of November welcomes the...
MichelleRena
Nov 1, 20212 min read
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Teen Appreciation Post
Happy Tuesday Y’all! This is a teenage daughter appreciation post. Zahra: “Ma, I need you to post my grades so I know you’re proud of...
MichelleRena
Oct 26, 20211 min read
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Self Care is doing what me makes feel good…daily!
Sunday is for self-care (at least for me it is)! Sometimes self-care looks like being alone with your thoughts or in the bed! Other times...
MichelleRena
Oct 24, 20212 min read
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Comparison is the thief of joy…so is not communicating your expectations!!
Sometimes our needs aren't being met because we aren't explicitly stating what it is that we need. You can't expect people to read your...
MichelleRena
Oct 20, 20211 min read
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Run your race at your own pace!
When I woke up this morning, I just couldn't push it. Normally, I am up and out of the bed by 5:15ish and ready to get my workout in to...
MichelleRena
Oct 19, 20212 min read
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Self Care Sunday: The Power of Self Healing
Here lately I’ve been focusing a lot on freedom, self love, self care, and self worth but I haven’t told you how I arrived to this place....
MichelleRena
Oct 17, 20213 min read
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Meet Dr. Sebrina Palmer, CEO and Lead Planner of The Encore Agency
Behind every Dope Black Woman I highlight, there is a story of how we met. I was fresh off the plane from Atlanta in 2007, pregnant but...
MichelleRena
Oct 11, 20214 min read
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It’s World Mental Health Day and My 6th Wedding Anniversary…is there a correlation?
I can be honest because it’s what I do and tell you about how these days perfectly align but not without a backstory for how. October...
MichelleRena
Oct 10, 20212 min read
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Just breathe…
I don’t know about you but the deeper I get into the week, month, year, the more stress I begin to carry. I started thinking about all of...
MichelleRena
Oct 6, 20211 min read
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A Gentle Reminder to Love Yourself!!!
Sometimes we need to be reminded that self love is truly the most important of all the loves. Moment of transparency...I struggled a long...
MichelleRena
Oct 5, 20211 min read
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Monday Mantra: Nothing will shake my peace!
I subscribe to Black Females Therapists text alerts and they are always spot on. Today’s message captured my exact sentiment for this...
MichelleRena
Oct 4, 20210 min read
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Ain’t No Feeling Like Being Free
Happy Sunday Y’all! It’s the first Sunday of October and new a month of self care Sunday posts will begin. For the past few weeks I have...
MichelleRena
Oct 3, 20212 min read
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Hello October…can we talk?
It’s October y’all. Like it‘s really already October. This year is zooming by and I can’t fully comprehend all that has happened in the...
MichelleRena
Oct 3, 20211 min read
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Summer left us so quickly…
Is it really the first day of fall? Is summer over for real? Are we really 101 days from 2022? My mind is having trouble computing this....
MichelleRena
Sep 22, 20210 min read
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Slow and Steady
Mondays…whew chile! I don’t like to preset my blog posts because I want them to be organic. Sometimes they are based on what I’m reading...
MichelleRena
Sep 13, 20211 min read
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Self Care Sunday: Don’t Give Up
Happy Sunday y’all! I hope this day finds you well! Sometimes Self Care looks like encouraging yourself. When life begins to bog you down...
MichelleRena
Sep 12, 20211 min read
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Transformation/Transparency Tuesday: We can’t become what we want by remaining what we are!
The thing I love most about growing up in my era (being born in the 80’s, raised in the 90’s, teen/young adult in 2000’s) is being able...
MichelleRena
Sep 7, 20212 min read
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Self-Care Sunday: Call a thing a thing so you can move on
If something gets you rattled address it, call it out, handle it accordingly and move around. do not, I repeat, DO NOT let it linger or...
MichelleRena
Sep 5, 20212 min read
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ICYMI: I was cheated on in my marriage! (Spoiler Alert: I stayed!)
So it’s kinda funny how this post came about. I received an interesting email yesterday from someone whom I’ve never met but they felt it...
MichelleRena
Sep 3, 20215 min read
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Hello September
I don’t know about you but every month I say a little prayer for the new month to be as uneventful as possible. So far it’s been very hit...
MichelleRena
Sep 1, 20211 min read
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You Can Get back up again!
Not only that, but we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and...
MichelleRena
4 days ago2 min read
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2024...where did you go, Mon?
I went a lot of places. If you follow me on IG or FB, you know I went to Greece, Turkey, London, and Paris. But for most of 2024, I went...
Monica Odom
Jan 63 min read
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