Footsteps To Freedom

Congratulations to the class of 2022! You are starting your journey into becoming who you always wanted to be. Stay focused, be strong, resilient and proud of your decisions. If you make mistakes, start over! and in the words of Martin Luther King Jr…”We mean business now and we are determined to gain our rightful…

I just read a quote “Listen and Silent, is spelled the same way. Think about that for a moment”. Wow! That is the truth. It makes sense. I tell my clients all the time, you cannot talk and listen at the same time. It does not work. God gave us two ears and one mouth…

It is important to heal every day.  Sometimes we think our lives are fine because there are no surface issues happening. But in this world, there is always something that will arise and show us that there is still work to do. For a long time after my healing process began, I thought my life…

Relationships need trust. Relationships need communication. Relationships need compromise. Relationships need a power higher than us to rely on. Relationships need laughter. Relationships need respect. Relationships need time. Patience, love, kindness and so much more. When these things are missing in a relationship, envy, jealousy, dis-trust, anger, insecurity can venture in. Relationships become toxic and…

My beautiful niece, Keely Greene, authored this following poem… (Rest in Him baby). She gifted her poems to me. She said “Aunt Val, you pushed me because you believed in me. I am who I am because you loved me just as I was. I loved her with every single fiber in my body. This…

I Heard this poem for the first time when I was sitting in a group at the House of Ruth. I do not know who wrote it and the orator never told us. She just wanted us to hear the poem. She read it twice. I was there in the room, but I was the…

Do you ever feel like you are on a Hamster’s Wheel? Moving but not going anywhere? This can happen when we don’t get out of our way. How do you know when you are a Hamster’s Wheel? When you keep re-learning things. Remember, the teaching is not over until the lesson is learned.

No is a sentence. It does not require an explanation of any sort. No is a powerful word that carries strength that some people don’t acknowledge. No means “not in any degree, not at all, not ever. Though it is a short word with only two letters, People do not seem to understand how powerful…

“Verbal abuse is a type of psychological/mental abuse that involves the use of oral language, gestured language and written language directed to a victim.” Verbal abuse can be worse than physical abuse. Scars heals but words stay with us. Hearing someone that loves you (at least say they love you) berate you and make you…

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…