Author: Caramel Xpressions
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Self Care Is Needed
Self-care is not only for you. It’s for someone who needs to hear your journey and also for someone who needs to feel your evolved love. Limiting your regrowth causes you to pour from half-filled or empty cups. Replenishment is necessary. Self-care is also self-destruction. It’s the destruction of the old self, negative thoughts, negative…
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A Few Tips on How to Make Your Relationship Work
I have always shied away from talking about or giving tips about relationships for different reasons. The first reason is that I believe that there is no one size fits all for relationships. Another reason is that what works for Mister A might not work for Mister B, and vice versa. Regardless of these, I…
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Black meditation – is it any different?
Yes, black meditation is different. Over the years, there have been meditation programs, apps, and many more on the market. They do work (we give them credit), but they were never tailored for black people or women of color. Meditation is as old as time itself. This spiritually alleviating exercise has been used o redirect…
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How to End An Era?
The ending is so hard. I’m wrapping up 16 years today. Memories will forever flood my heart. A long time ago I let someone steal my pen or at least I thought she did. I thought I got it back but this pen has a connection of it’s own. It has been wrapped up in…
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You’ve been on my mind lately. Wreaking havoc on my dreams. Creating a storm in my bed. I do not know how you do it, but it gets done. You make me feel a certain type of way, to where I blush from the top of my head to the tips of my toes and…
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💜💜💜
You don’t ever have to explain why you tried to commit suicide to anyone unless you’re talking to your therapist. No one knows how deep those scars run that have been created, whether by you or someone else. Your cross is yours to carry and it is yours to lay down as well. I don’t…
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Elevator Ghost
This is so dumb I really don’t know how we got stuck in this stupid elevator together. He was there with his headphones in, with his stupid face, ignoring me like he had been all week. “Did you press the call button, again?” I knew he pressed it several times just wanted to spark conversation.…
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Dream Chasing
Chasing your dream seems so easy now. It wasn’t always this way, well at least for me it wasn’t. I’ve always felt like my dreams were chasing me and I was dodging them at all cost, not purposely but it was happening. As a child, you are given the imagination to use and runaway with.…
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Throwback Disclaimer
I tried to fix it a little. Disclaimer: This piece was written October 29, 2005 (15 years ago DAAAAMMMNN, Gina) Have you experienced a moment of epiphany, as if your eyes were opened to something to which you were previously blind to?Long ago, I thought after one broken heart love wasn’t possible and then the…
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Love Without Limits:
Just Another Love Story Book Review: Check out the book HERE Thai sent me on an emotional rollercoaster with this one. I loved this book from beginning to end. Kandy suffered her whole childhood just to end up with Ace, a man she thought would give her the world, and he turned around and dogged…
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