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The Backstory Behind the Thank You Card That Reignited My Writing Spirit

7 Aug 2025 8 minute read 0 comments Greenchic

Designed using https://www.canva.com/ The writing task that warmed up my numbed writing spirit! Now, I am slowly back to writing articles, but as I detailed in my earlier post, I had a time period where writing, had to stoop… I have explained the ci...

Are You There Yet? 10 Signs You Are Finally Respecting Yourself

1 Aug 2025 1 minute read 0 comments Thrive Daily

There’s a quiet shift that happens when you stop abandoning yourself just to keep the peace. You start choosing your own well-being over the need to please, and slowly, life feels different. Respecting yourself isn’t loud or dramatic — it’s often fou...

The Weight of Expectations And the Mistakes I Wasn’t Allowed to Make

24 Jul 2025 1 minute read 0 comments Shugawrites

They raised me to be perfect to be the embodiment of their dreams and sacrifices. And I tried, oh, I tried.   But not for me.   I was chasing perfection because they needed someone to brag about.   Someone they could point to and say, “See? We raised...

Cultivate More Joy in Your Life Using Powerful Gratitude

24 Jul 2025 2 minute read 0 comments KTMILLER

  The Power of Gratitude: How to Cultivate Joy in Everyday Life In our fast-paced and often stressful lives, it can be easy to overlook the simple joys that surround us every day. We get caught up in our to-do lists, our worries, and our never-ending...

Surviving Naija: The Real Reason So Many Nigerian Dreams Are on Hold

23 Jul 2025 1 minute read 0 comments Shugawrites

It’s not laziness. It’s survival.   I’ve watched brilliant people abandon their dreams not because they stopped believing, but because life demanded something else.   Rent had to be paid.   A hospital bill landed out of nowhere.   A younger sibling n...

When Life Shows Up, I Go Quiet But I Always Return

21 Jul 2025 1 minute read 0 comments Shugawrites

For every writer who goes silent but never truly stops being one.   There are seasons when the words just stop flowing.   Not because you’ve run out of things to say,   but because life gets too heavy to carry and create.   It happens to more of us t...

Self-Love, Forgiveness, and Bitcoin

20 Jul 2025 3 minute read 0 comments jacejacobs

Self-Love, Forgiveness, and Bitcoin Anger is like a piece of hot coal clutched in your hand. You may feel anger towards someone else; however, if you keep holding that hot coal, you are the one who gets burned. Two of the biggest challenges I have fa...

Three Birds

19 Jul 2025 1 minute read 2 comments jacejacobs

THREE BIRDS   Three birds in the morning Three birds in the twilight Three birds showing up for me Everything is going to be alright   When I’m chilling at the park Three birds out to play Three birds gonna let me know Everything is going to be okay...

💭 12 Quiet Feelings That Are More Normal Than You Think

18 Jul 2025 1 minute read 0 comments Thrive Daily

Some feelings come loud and clear.But others? They live in the quiet corners of your day.Unspoken. Subtle.And sometimes… you wonder if they’re even valid. But they are. That heaviness you don’t talk about?The ache you can’t quite name?You’re not the...

What Self-Love Really Means

12 Jul 2025 1 minute read 0 comments Thrive Daily

There was a time I thought self-love meant face masks and bubble baths. And don’t get me wrong — those things can help. It's also a part of self care. But the deeper I went into healing and learning myself, the more I realized… self-love is less abou...