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She Made It!
I watch this young lady. I roll back to the memories when she walked into my life. Black eye, busted lip, legs, neck, shoulders shin, foot, ribs, finger her entire small frame blue, purple, pink and gray. I am taking shots on my camera phone and calling 911 all in one beat. She sits, her
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Keep Moving!
You put your fist in my face and blackened my eye and I kept moving You stripped me of my dignity, but I still walked away with my head held high and I kept moving You tried to break me, but I was only able to bend! And I kept moving! Martin Luther King said
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Emotions
“I never been the type that deal with emotions. You have a lot of emotional people out here.” I kept reading this sentence over again to try to understand it. I thought emotions were a part of who we are and how we are wired. Does it matter if we are emotionless? Aren’t emotions how
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The Beauty is Behind the Mask
She said, “We all wear masks and sometimes it’s hard to take them off because we don’t want others to see our vulnerabilities. Someone else added, “But the real beauty is behind the mask!”. And they are both right. We can be so unsure of ourselves, so critical. My hair is too short or too
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Hardships Build Character
It does not matter what we go through, going through and have gone through, we have managed to overcome and be resilient and stronger from the experience. Most times we do not know how strong we are. This comes from years of hearing we are weak, stupid, or dumb. We continue to play at tape
Hey, I’m Vikee
I am a licensed certified supervised addictions counselor, a published author, alumni of The House of Ruth Outreach Volunteer Program, and the co-owner of Montebello Medical Billing, Coding, and Consulting Company, LLC.
“One day you will rise above all the insecurities, fear, guilt, and shame, you will shed others’ opinions of you and be the Phoenix you were purposed to be!“
— Vikee
Footsteps To Freedom 