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Unseen & Unheard: Embracing the Invisible
Feeling like Cherish’s ‘Unappreciated’? In my latest blog, I bare it all about the emotional rollercoaster of feeling unseen and unheard. From the complexities of motherhood to the juggling act of career and personal life, I share the challenges and triumphs of embracing the invisible. Join me as we explore the transformative power of gratitude…
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I Thought I Was Past This…
Part I: Healing In Real Time Hey y’all. It’s been a minute. And you know what that means… I’ve got something to talk about. But before I could write about it, I had to understand what actually happened. I couldn’t just spill it (cause we both know I’m apt to do just that…lol). I had…
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Love People Well, Part 2: Honoring Yourself
Love People Well: Part 2 is about honoring yourself. Because accepting how someone loves you is not the same as settling. You can appreciate someone’s effort and still know the connection doesn’t land where it needs to. Difference is beautiful. Deprivation is not. This is the part where we learn that loving well includes loving…
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When Love Speaks Two Languages
Love has always felt emotional to me…connection, depth, and the sense of being known. But a recent conversation made me realize something I’d missed: not everyone experiences love through feelings. Some love through choice, intention, and daily commitment. And when those two expressions meet without trying to change each other, something surprisingly safe and beautiful…
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Triggered by Love
I didn’t realize I was fighting love until I met someone who wasn’t trying to hurt me. When survival is your default, love doesn’t feel safe; it feels suspicious.Kindness makes you flinch. Consistency feels like a setup. And the more someone sees you, the real you, the more you start scanning for the exits. Because…
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I Didn’t Know I’d Need That
Sometimes God gives you a word and you don’t realize until later…it was for you. Not just something cute to post. Not just something to write in a journal. But a whisper you’ll cling to when everything around you gets loud. I didn’t know I’d need that. But God did. And He gave it to…
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God, I Trusted You…and It Still Hurt
This isn’t the story where everything works out by the third paragraph. It’s the one where you trusted God, prayed the prayers, sowed the seeds — and still got blindsided. Where you believed with everything in you… and it still broke. Where obedience didn’t protect you from the ache. This is not doubt. It’s devastated…
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Soft Doesn’t Mean Stupid
We’ve romanticized the “soft life” — spa days, peace, candles, detachment. But nobody talks about the other side of softness. The risk. The emotional labor. The way you have to fight to stay open in a world that keeps giving you reasons to shut down. I’ve learned the hard way: being soft doesn’t mean being…
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Mirror, Mirror (Part Two): When the Reflection Becomes Revelation
Back in 2014, I wrote about seeing myself clearly for the first time. But I was still wearing armor. Still hiding. Still surviving. This time, the mirror didn’t reflect who I had been. It revealed who I was becoming — the healed, whole, soft, and honest version of me that was always waiting to be…
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This One’s for Her: You Were Never Too Much
Years ago, I wrote a letter to my younger self, fresh out of college and feeling like I had arrived. I genuinely thought I was writing from a healed place (chile…I know, right?). Then I did it again after I got married…and whew, the delusion was even stronger that time. Lord. A few years ago,…
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When You Know Too Much to Go Back
There are some truths you can’t unknow. Some clarity you can’t unsee. And once you’ve tasted healing, even a little, pretending it didn’t happen starts to feel like betrayal. This is the tension of growth – the ache of knowing, the cost of continuing, and the courage it takes to not go back.
UnShaded Revelations 