inspiration without the other stuff
JULY IS #MinorityMentalHealthAwarenessMonth As a Suicide Prevention volunteer, this is such a weighty topic and I’m so here for it! My burden to raise #SuicideAwareness and #EndTheStigma surrounding Mental Health issues in communities of color and communities of faith; has only intensified! Brittney Moses https://brittneyamoses.com/ and Dr Thema Bryant Davis https://www.drthema.com/ are great faith based […]
$700 RAISED! From my first donor to EVERY donor who kept giving long after the walk on Sun. October 6, 2019. Thank you so much. To my first teammate to the last one who signed up on the day of the walk. Thank you so much. To every intercessor, social media influencer and loved one […]
If honest with ourselves we’d say we have had moments where we clocked out. I’ve learned over the years that the key is clocking back in. The term Mental Health has such a negative connotation and stigma associated with it, that we fail to honor our own humanity by not addressing that facet of our […]
I think the most difficult conversation to start is one where we don’t know what to say. It weighs heavily on you and you know something is off but you can’t quite put your finger on it. A loved one, friend or acquaintance is struggling to cope. You notice they’re down, withdrawn, depressed or even […]
September is the awareness month for both of the causes closest to my heart! Suicide Prevention AND Alopecia Awareness! Visit http://www.naaf.org for more info and click here to read our daughter’s story of Alopecia Areata entitled “A Smile Big Enough To Cover The Pain”. New here? | Welcome New Faces! Blessings! e of @authenticiteespeaks IG […]
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GOD CAN…I CAN’T When I first launched “Inspiration with E” I was surrounded by people who only knew one fragment of my mosaic. They either saw me as ONLY a love poet @authenticiteespeaks, or ONLY a blogger at http://www.authenticiteespeaks.com or ONLY a mother or ONLY a singer/songwriter/speaker. A few still ONLY see me as the […]
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A Documentary by Darnell Lamont Walker about Black Folks & Mental Illness. Why are we not sharing our stories, our pain, our struggles, and our methods of survival? This film exists to show those quietly suffering that they are not alone. I’ve had friends who’ve committed suicide in…
I’ve been wearing blue lipstick at times and with pretty good reason! I shared in this space a couple of years ago, about our then 10 yr old daughter’s battle with sudden hair loss as a result of Alopecia. Blue is the awareness color for the condition and our daughter; now a 15 yr old […]
ROUND TWO I’m in #Volunteer training again. I was talking to a friend about how things are rapidly changing in the field closest to my heart; #Suicide #Crisis #Intervention. Traditional training doesn’t equip me to deal w/ Facebook Live suicides & the like. It’s a different day we’re living in & it’s hard to ignore […]
