winterofcontent:

i.

I am twelve years old
and this is my third time on a plane.
My mother leans over me
to say, wake up and eat breakfast
and the scent of her lotion
brings with it the rush of morning
in a confusing, dull roar.
Groggy, I realize what I am afraid of most:
forgetting the sound of my mother’s…

1. Live for your own approval. Center yourself. Be alone. Create your own space.
2. Discover your own powers. What floods you with joy?
3. Find true humility and practice it.
4. Keep your palabra, your word.
5. What are you using to cover or mask your pain? Address it.
6. Your only true possessions are your…

amidnight-dreary:

It took me a while to forget you,
who am I kidding, it took me a lifetime,
weeks, months, years, to repress the sweet
memories of your face, the taste of your kiss.
But I remember the exact moment, where
I finally let you go.

I had met someone else, who had
bright hazel eyes and created the…

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-bonefish:

Foods that Fuel Your Chakras

acidqueenwho:

Feeding Your Root Chakra Grounding

• Root vegetables: carrots, potatoes, parsnips, radishes, beets, onions, garlic, etc.
• Protein-rich foods: eggs, meats, beans, tofu, soy products, peanut butter
• Spices: horseradish, hot paprika, chives, cayenne, pepper

Nourishing the Sexual/Creativity Center

• Sweet fruits: melons, mangos, strawberries, passion fruit, oranges, coconut, etc.
• Honey
• Nuts: almonds, walnuts, etc.
• Spices: cinnamon, vanilla, carob, sweet paprika, sesame seeds, caraway seeds

Feeding Your Solar Plexus Chakra Boosting Self-Esteem and Encouraging Self-Love

• Granola and Grains: pastas, breads, cereal, rices, flax seed, sunflower seeds, etc.
• Dairy: milk, cheeses, yogurt
• Spices: ginger, mints (peppermint, spearmint, etc.), melissa, chamomile, turmeric, cumin, fennel

Feeding Your Heart Chakra Healing Emotional Hurts

• Leafy vegetables: spinach, kale, dandelion greens, etc.
• Air vegetables: broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage, celery, squash, etc.
• Liquids: green teas
• Spices: basil, sage, thyme, cilantro, parsley

Feeding Your Throat Chakra Speaking One’s Truth

• Liquids in general: water, fruit juices, herbal teas
• Tart or tangy fruits: lemons, limes, grapefruit, kiwi
• Other tree growing fruits: apples, pears, plums, peaches, apricots, etc.
• Spices: salt, lemon grass

Feeding Your Brow Chakra Awakening Third Eye Senses

• Dark bluish colored fruits: blueberries, red grapes, black berries, raspberries, etc.
• Liquids: red wines and grape juice
• Spices: lavender, poppy seed, mugwort

Feeding Your Crown Chakra Opening and Clearing the Spiritual Communication Center

• Air: fasting / detoxing
• Incense and Smudging Herbs: sage, copal, myrrh, frankincense, and juniper 
  Incense and smudging herbs are not to be eaten but are ritually inhaled through the nostrils or can be smoked through a ceremony pipe for purification purposes.

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newmodelminority:

sanelevox:

WHY BLACK FEMINIST ART & LITERARY PUBLICATIONS ARE NECESSARY

Because Audre Lorde said, “Your silence will not protect you.”

Because Barbara Smith said, “but some of us are brave.”

Because Toni Cade Bambara said, “The role of the revolutionary artist is to make revolution irresistible.”

Because Sylvia Wynter says our poetics is our politics is the way we make a world.

Because Anna Julia Cooper, a 19th century figure and former slave, earned a Ph.D. and wrote THE FIRST Black Feminist text, A Voice from the South.

Because Maria Miller Stewart was THE FIRST American woman of any race to serve as a public lecturer before a mixed audience of men and women, blacks and whites (proceeding the Grimke’s antislavery speeches by 5 years).

BECAUSE MANY OF YOU HAVE NO IDEA WHO THESE WOMEN ARE!

Because we cannot live without our lives, our contradictions or our words.

Because we fall in love with women of color every day.

Because young Black women STILL think critically and write prophetically.

Because publications are the ONLY way to communicate and globally interact with  past, present, and future Black women.

Because nearly all of the Black feminist publications of the 70s, 80s, and 90s have become extinct.

Because Black people were the ONLY people in the U.S. ever EXPLICITLY forbidden to become literate.

Because if we don’t write ourselves into history, tell our own truths and experiences, can it be said that we were even here?

I am starting a Black Feminist Art and Literary Publication. I am using the term Black to refer to those within the African Diaspora. I am concerned about our limited options. I am calling on Audre Lorde and Barbara Smith. I am calling for Black women theory, criticism, and creative literature writers. I am calling all of my sisters to come and sit at the kitchen table. 

Thank you for writing and reblogging this little bear.

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nasturtiummm:

• rosemary oil is good for treating depression when eaten raw in small amounts (can be added with nuts/trail mix/chex mix) or even baked/cooked with your food or rubbed into the skin/on your temples or added into a non scented lotion.
• eat ginger!
• foods rich in B vitamins are also good to help treat depression, like spinach, pinto beans, brussel sprouts, kale, peas, radishes, cauliflower, asparagus, and okra too!
• licorice root and black licorice
• two cups a day (or one big cup) of saint johns wort, 2 table spoons brewed as a tea for 10 minutes, add lemon or mint or licorice root for flavor enhancer if you would like!

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spiritualinspiration:

The Top 20 Things Oprah Knows for Sure

1. What you put out comes back all the time, no matter what. (This is my creed.)

2. You define your own life. Don’t let other people write your script.

3. Whatever someone did to you in the past has no power over the present. Only you give it power.

4. When people show you who they are, believe them the first time. (A lesson from Maya Angelou.)

5. Worrying is wasted time. Use the same energy for doing something about whatever worries you.

6. What you believe has more power than what you dream or wish or hope for. You become what you believe.

7. If the only prayer you ever say is thank you, that will be enough. (From the German theologian and humanist Meister Eckhart.)

8. The happiness you feel is in direct proportion to the love you give.

9. Failure is a signpost to turn you in another direction.

10. If you make a choice that goes against what everyone else thinks, the world will not fall apart.

11. Trust your instincts. Intuition doesn’t lie.

12. Love yourself and then learn to extend that love to others in every encounter.

13. Let passion drive your profession. 

14. Find a way to get paid for doing what you love. Then every paycheck will be a bonus.

15. Love doesn’t hurt. It feels really good.

16. Every day brings a chance to start over.

17. Being a mother is the hardest job on earth. Women everywhere must declare it so.

18. Doubt means don’t. Don’t move. Don’t answer. Don’t rush forward.

19. When you don’t know what to do, get still. The answer will come.

20. “Trouble don’t last always.” (A line from a Negro spiritual, which calls to mind another favorite: This, too, shall pass.)

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chubby-bunnies:

NV, 27, US, Poet, Lover of Self & All Things Beautiful

Divine Goddess Principals

These principles are a product of inspiration from the Goddess Ma’at. Everyone should live their lives by standards to help guide them through life.

Here are mine:

1. I will create art and beauty from nothing.
2. I will share with the world, and become an open vessel so the world can share with me.
3. I will be the best at everything I do, no matter how small or big the task.
4. I will love God first and always.
5. I will love my Goddess. I will love myself.
6. I will love my family, friends, and lovers unconditionally.
7. I will love my colleagues and acquaintances.
8. I will love my enemies with one eye open.
9. I will be brave.
10. I will be genuine - I will always be me.
11. I will be proud but never too proud to pray.
12. I will be humble and connected to the Earth.
13. I will be loyal and mindful of my roots no matter where the wind takes me.
14. I will question everything.
15. I will never settle for a stone if I desire a diamond.
16. I will be a follower of my own standards so long as my feet touch the Earth.

xo