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Healing Words To Help You Along
Words are powerful, this we already know. A few weeks ago, I was struggling emotionally and found it hard to form sentences for my Instagram motivational posts. What came to me instead were words, single words and I decided to create a healing words series. Healing words are just words that can be used as affirmations over your life. These words deliver a simple message that allows you to feel better or convey something you have been trying to say or feel. In this article, I will be sharing the healing words that I covered in that series. This post will be just the words and the captions that I…
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Tips on How to Wash Starter Locs
Starting Locs can be the best hair decision for many people. However, it may start to become challenging if you are unsure about how to wash starter Locs or even just how to properly care for your Locs. Washing your starter dreadlocks is a big part of caring for your hair. In fact, washing is the starting point of basic Locs care. Before you even consider how to retwist your starter Locs, you need to have the washing aspect down. In this article, I will give you a few tips on how to wash starter Locs. How To Wash Starter Locs Regardless of the method used to start your dreadlocks,…
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C H A P T E R 24. A birthday time capsule.
Born Shanice Palmer on Tuesday, July 11, 1995, at 1:45 am. Have you ever wanted to know more about the day you were born? What things were like and what was happening. I wanted to know, so I did a quick search and found out that 7000 Bosnian Muslim men were massacred. Initially, I felt sad but then I cheered up because that is just the world we live in and it’s the past. As life is brought into the world, life is taken and so I just want to say rest in peace to those men and that no one should die because of religion or conflict. Not that…
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25 Daily Self-Care Ideas to help you heal you.
Self-Care simplified. In this post, I will share 25 self-care activities that you can do daily. Sometimes self-care may sound time-consuming and expensive. This is because people may make it seem like a major thing rather than simple acts that we should be doing each day. When I think of self-care I think of things that I do for myself, that allows me to enjoy each day. These are basic things that I do to take care of my physical, emotional and spiritual well-being. And while your at it, you can check out this printable checklist with 60 selfcare ideas that are inexpensive and can be done everyday. When you…
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Becoming Your Ideal Self and Living Your Ideal Life.
Becoming your ideal self or living your ideal life is not the easiest of things. I would love to get my house in a minimalist state with all the furniture having the same theme and so forth. However, my pockets are not in support. The furniture is of mixed color, in coordination with what I can find at the thrift store and that’s okay. Let me tell you why. Becoming Your Ideal Self, Living Your Ideal Life What is your Ideal Self or Life? In order to become your ideal self, you must first know what or who that is. Knowing yourself is the most important thing, not just for…
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Combing out Locs vs Cutting Locs. Advice and How to.
Yes, you can comb out your locs, as well as you can cut off your locs and start fresh. At some point in every loc journey, the question of do I love my locs? or it might be, do I like how my locs are forming ? will arise. For some, the answer is a solid yes! For others, the answer is no. Having the answer as no, I do not love my locs will then bring the question of what do I do now? In this post, we will get into answering that question. Cutting Dreadlocks vs Combing Out Dreadlocks If you do not wish to have your locs…
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7 Date Night Ideas for Introverted Couples
Introverts do have fun and today we will get into some date night ideas for introverted couples. I am an introvert and interestingly I started dating an introvert. Now, being an introvert doesn’t mean you stay at home all the time. However, bae and I stay home all the time. So, this post will be at home date night ideas for introverted couples. It is very important that while in a relationship you are still able to not only have fun but have fun with each other. A relationship should be a place where the needs of both people are met so always keep that in mind. 7 Date Night…
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8 Ways to Declutter your Mind and Spring into Summer
We are one month away from summer, have you done your mental spring cleaning? Decluttering your mind is just as important as decluttering your home. In a way, they actually play into each other and we will talk more about it later on in this post as we discuss 8 ways to declutter your mind. How has your year been? My year has been going as I would have liked it to, so far but there is always room for improvement. There are things and thoughts that I would like to eliminate from my life and so I began pondering ways to spring clean my mind. In this article, I…
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Must have i-phone/android APPS for Bloggers
As a blogger, who loves what I do there are several apps that I have downloaded to make my blogging life easier. I use these apps every day as I deal with my blog every day. Blogging is a huge part of my life and also a huge part of my income. Currently, I stay at home as I am writing my thesis. I also work from home for my blog and as a freelance content writer for other blogs. ( If you are interested in hiring a freelance writer, please refer here). Mobile Apps that are a must-have for Bloggers and freelancers WordPress App For my blog, this is…
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Curly Afro-Puff PonyTail for quick styles, Review
This is a review of a cheap curly Afro-Puff Drawstring Hair Piece. When I saw this Afro Puff Hair Piece on Amazon for less than $10 I was skeptical of it. My hubby was convinced it was trash and that I should not buy it. I, on the other hand, decided that it was worth the risk. I mean, I am an amazon prime member. Therefore, the hair would arrive in two days and if I liked it then awesome but if it was not worth it then it can simply be sent back. Amazon offers great customer service to prime members. My First Impressions When the hair arrived it…