Founder's Blog

Listen, life is hard…. period. Life is even harder when you deal with mental disorders, unstable emotions, and have a hard time coping with everyday things. Life can make you feel as though you are a complete and total failure at it. But its LIFE!!! How do you fail at something that has been...

My father is a 69 year old man, born in Huntsville, Alabama, an HBCU graduate, an entrepreneur, an engineer, a grandfather, and A BLACK MAN. I mention his race last because that is how this country wants him to believe they see him. He knows they do NOT. You see he...

Why have hope? Having hope, being hopeful… most of the time sucks. Having hope means facing rejection, dealing with disappointment, getting discouraged, and feeling defeat. Why do it? Why set yourself up for any of that? Why willingly allow yourself to place yourself at risk for any of those things? I have asked myself this...

" For Shame!" An expression that condemns someone for being dishonorable or disgraceful. "For Shame!" She cried. Shame. Shame is defined both as a noun and as a verb. To Shame someone, a verb, means to make someone feel ashamed. Shame is defined as a painful feeling of humiliation or distress...

I have been dreading the day since around your Birthday last month. I could get through that day just fine because I didn't usually see you, nor had there been a tradition of gathering the family together to visit you that day until recently. But I knew Thanksgiving would be a different story. I...

Spinning... stop, take a deep breath. Now take one step, just one. Step. Now another. Step. Okay take two. Step, step. Now three. Step, step, and step. Take a breath, you're doing great. Breathe. I think you're getting the hang of it, take a few more steps. Step, step, step, step. Are you ready...

We hear it all the time. "Just think positive." "Sending Good vibes." I'm the type of person that even when I feel hopeless, I try to hold on to some kind of hope that the feeling will pass soon enough. Some days, I don't truly believe it will. I have days that I don't...

Dear June 11th, I wish you knew how excited I was to finally meet you. To be able to see you with my own eyes, to touch your hand, and maybe steal a kiss or two. You said it yourself there was a connection and it had returned, but what you didn't know is that...

So I met a guy on a dating site, we meet in person, he is great, but he just wants to be friends. That's cool with me…. Sort of. Over the course of about a month, we have grown very close. He confides in me and I in him. We hang out and talk...

  As a single woman, that doesn’t get out much, dating apps seemed to be the easiest way to meet the most people the fastest. After all, they all have these “Meet me” games where you see a picture and swipe left or right. Most notify you of the match and you take it from...