Tag: accountability
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Kindness, Clarity, and Encouragement – #66
Most times people aren’t JUDGING YOU. Sometimes, folks are trying to help you by forcing the mirror in ya face. 🤷🏾♀️ Your intentions don’t mean nothing when compared to your impact. You’re bleeding on everybody and wondering why they’re stepping back. It’s because you refuse to ADMIT THAT YOU ARE BLEEDING ON EVERYBODY.
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Kindness, Clarity, and Encouragement – #53
If I were to change this language at all, I’d say: My life STARTED changing because I am starting to REALIZE and RESPOND TO THE FACT THAT:
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Frustrated Black Girl
I’m frustrated. You tell black girls to love themselves, then set about praising everything that is opposite of who they might be: if it’s light skinned/white, skinny, petite, “demure”, small, wavy/straight haired, not “too loud”, certainly not too black or sure of itself. You tell them they can’t be all the things they are, to…
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Kindness, Clarity, and Encouragement – #28
Need I say more? Yeah? K. Accountability. Growth. Repentance. Change.
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Kindness, Clarity, and Encouragement – #26
If someone says that you hurt them, YOU DO NOT GET TO DECIDE THAT YOU DID NOT. Apologizing by saying, “IF I…” is not an acknowledgement that you’ve harmed someone. You’re still defending your INTENT rather than responding to the IMPACT. And impact is what people remember. What’s that cliché/adage? The road to hell is…
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The Accountability That Comes with The Blessing
It’s so easy to hide inside the lives we have created for ourselves, selfishly clinging to the little happiness squeezed out of dry bones brittle from the abuse and neglect of this world. It is so easy to venture out into the wilds of where you live just to make enough money to run home…
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Kindness, Clarity, and Encouragement – #21
And if you are: May your heart be convicted. May you apologize. May you become a better human. May you heal the parts of you that cause you to hurt others. May you learn to love yourself. May you love yourself so much that you can be fully present and encouraging to others without feeling…
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It’s Not an Attack if It’s True
Confession: I am a sensitive person. It comes with the territory of being rejected early in life and often throughout. I am just now, 40 some odd years in, being delivered from the spirit of perfectionism and pride that comes along with the shame of not being wanted—being forsaken. Some of you are struggling with…
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