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Today, September 6, 2024,**, marks one year since I launched Growing 'n Musing.

My primary goals were:

1. To have somewhere my poems and my love for poetry can live

2. To inspire wellness, wholeness, and reflection

3. To stick with Growing ‘n Musing for a whole year

I have learned a lot about myself as a person, as a poet and creative, as a woman, as a healing person, as a loving person, as a growing person. Thank you for coming along for the ride.

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This season has served as a reminder that all change is in preparation for something new— what we pray and work for.

While managing the joys and sadnesses of this summer, I noticed more closely, the things that kept me grounded and sane in what felt like both a crazy whirlwind and nothingness.

In this episode, I share what tools work for me. What tools have worked for you? Click to listen!

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Heads up: This episode dives into culture, language, media, colorism, womanism, and self-love.

In this episode, I share many thoughts and feelings I usually keep private for my emotional safety. However, I believe it's essential to address these interconnected topics authentically, as they significantly impact wellness and state of mind. Click to listen!

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Reflecting on a recent trip to Norway and Italy, I share my journey of learning to hold different realities —joys and frustrations, adventures and responsibilities— and how this has transformed my perspective.

To hold the tension of opposites is to hold the balance and imbalances with the same compassion and patience.

This way, we can embrace the bad that comes with the good and the good that comes with the bad. We can hold uncertainty more confidently.Click to listen!

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To surrender is to accept that our efforts alone do not dictate reality.

When all your efforts leave you wanting and rejected, what is left to do but surrender?

I am learning that surrender is not always willing —sometimes it finds us, and sometimes it comes from exhaustion.

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A positive mindset precedes a positive attitude. We have to actively and persistently create thought patterns that support a positive attitude.

Like coach, we can train our minds to have a positivity bias with time and growth. For Dorian, this means maintaining firm boundaries to protect his attitude and state of mind.

We dive into the details of this mental training and attitude, click to listen!

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Perfectionism and exceptionalism can make it hard to slow down enough to give yourself credit.

Many of us quickly scold and reprimand ourselves for what we do wrong. Why aren’t we just a quick to give ourselves credit and praise for what we do well?

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Sometimes failure can feel like the ultimate end. Sometimes it is —the necessary end of a dream or goal.

Regardless, failure is a great place for reflection and recalibration, but only for those open to pivoting and creating their own opportunities. A healthy relationship with failure can teach us to find silver linings and solutions.

What’s your relationship with failure? How do you process and accept failing?

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I believe the search for God is merely the search for greater understanding, meaning, and connection. 

I also, arrogantly and comfortably, believe that a lot of us are traumatized after centuries of pain inflicted by the religious God. This leads us to call the God-like experience by another name: the universe, the great spirit, Allah, Jehovah, the great mystery, and magic. 

In these new names, we feel safe from the archaic ideas about who God is or isn’t. 

Consequently, I invited Michael —an atheist— to discuss God, faith, religion, and spirituality. Michael is a materialist, and I practice neo-spiritualism (relating to our material and immaterial experiences).  

What does this mean for how we create meaning and connection? 

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My therapist, and a few other people, called me brave. They made my day.

All the time I spend battling and suppressing my fears, it often feels like I am losing.

Now that people qualify me as brave, I am gaining clarity and perspective. In today’s episode, I share how I am learning to treat fear. How do you face your fears without trying to affirm them away?