Focus On How You Feel Today Just Today

Have you focused on you feel? Have you ever really done that? I mean you KNOW how you feel right now. Or do you? Are you going through life just ..."going through life?" I know I was doing it too.
A friend of mine told me a couple years back to pay attention to how I felt because that would let me know what I was bringing to me in my world. I thought he had lost his mind because hey I had been a grown assed woman for a very long time and life just happened. It just did. How wrong I was.
So today this is what I what I want you to do. I am not gonna get real deep and ask you to write and assess your feelings. No that's too much right now. All I want you to do is make sure that you are clear in how you feel be it good or bad. Learn to acknowledge your emotions.
How do you feel?
Ok lets go through them : Happy, joyful, grateful, excited, expectant, loving, exuberant
Sad, angry, violent, indifferent (I don't care), depressed
You get the idea right. That is all you need to do today nothing more. Focus on how you feel. Simple right? Why is this so important? Well for a few reasons. Your feeling or emotions is a like a measuring tool of what you physical body is doing and your soul self as well  to your life and your body. You will find out how later. Trust me on this one ok? This may not sound like it is a big deal right now but when you are not clear on how you feel then the next thing that happens is you keep feeling the same way and in the long run....it affects what happens in your life. Take control today and assess your feelings....That's it for today! See you tomorrow!


Til next time,

Yve

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Nappy N Happy For Gabby!

This past week has been glorious for America as we have taken home the Gold in gymnastics! My daughter Aaliyah sat intently in front of the television screen watching and trying to mimic the moves of this tiny, adept and skilled young lady. I can remember getting up to walk away to answer a call in my office and my little girl walked in with an excited voice saying ,”Mother, Gabby won she won the gold!” I could see all my child’s teeth as she exclaimed that 16 year old Gabby Douglas had won overall.
Even now Aaliyah is telling me, “Mother, tonight they are gonna have track I wanna see that too”
I am proud to know that Gabby Douglas went to the Olympics and did her thing. She handled the world stage with grace, poise, focus and stamina.
Gabby has done something to my little girl in just the short time that she has been watching the Olympics that I could never have done. (well I can’t do back flips and moms aren’t that cool in my house right now) but what Gabby has done is inspired my little girl. I saw that spark in her eye. I saw the gleam in her smile as she ran to the office to tell me that Gabby had won the gold. To my child that meant that she too could aim that high and reach her goals.
Simple really. How one person can affect the other either in a positive or a negative way. Each one of us is being held to that standard and we need to learn how to reach back with how we act and how we treat others because everything that we do or say affects another person.
Which brings me to my point for this post.
What gives people?
Why are we all over the social online atmosphere talking about Gabby’s hair? I mean is there not something more important at stake here rather than how her hairline looked? Why is it that adults and young women of African descent mind you taking it upon themselves to talk about this child’s hair?
What confused me the most were the posts from hairstylists claiming that she needed a little shine and edge gel and that her straight weave didn’t match her natural hair. I am appalled as a parent and a black woman that grown black folks would even say anything about this baby’s hair as she represented an ENTIRE country in a sport that rarely sees blacks. She represented the US. We should have rallied behind her and offered tweets and social media status posts around the globe of her performance under the pressure. How dare we take it upon ourselves to discuss anything but positive things for this young lady to see? Because she will. I am sure she has heard or seen or not as she looks at her Gold medal and hearing about calls for endorsements and other things. Because that is coming too. But we are worried about her hair and how she represented black women?
Ok lets go there for a minute. One tweet I read actually said that "16 year old Gabby Douglas did not represent black women at the Olympics very well with her hair looking like that” I almost fell out of my chair when I saw that post. She represented not only black women she represented the United States of America and she also dispelled the false idea that if you come from a single parent home that you will grow up broken and a mess.
According to articles in the NYTimes and online press, Gabby moved away from her single parent home in Virginia Beach and moved in with a family in Iowa to train for this. She kept her focus and look where it got her. I am certain that this was not an easy thing for this young lady to do but with drive, determination and strong will, look where it got her......the Olympic Gold.

Now sisters, I’m calling you out on this mess right here. How dare you open your mouth to say anything about Gabby Douglas and her hair when she is flippin’ through the air while you are flippin’ through a magazine at the salon waiting four or five hours to have your hair fried, dyed and laid to the side, glued in, sown in, permed up and gelled down so tight that you can’t even scratch your scalp you have to PAT IT.
Gabby is coming home to major accolades and endorsements, interviews, scholarships and all of the other goodies that come from being a champion while you don’t wanna bust a sweat because you just might mess your fresh "do" up. You are the same sisters that can’t get a good nights sleep or have great sex because you are terrified that your freshly styled hair will succumb to it’s natural ways and show it true kinkyness. What about how you are already training your daughters to sit in that chair at the beauty salon and spend her light bill money just so that she can have a beautifully coiffed tight hairstyle? Please.....I’m over here laughing right now because we have our priorities all messed up.
Black women have the some of highest blood pressure levels, more diabetes and obesity than many other races because we too damn scared to bust a sweat over our hair. Oh my God. You big as a house but you hair looks good. Your blood pressure sky high, but your hair,.... as they wheel you to the emergency room,.. looks good. Yall come on now we gots to do betta! lol
So to you Gabby congratulations you worked hard for it you earned it and I hope that you continue to do great things in your future which I am sure that you will. Congratulations to your mom, a single parent who handled her business and saw to it that you followed your dreams. Be blessed in everything that your family does.
For the sisters and brothers and stylists with so much mouth about this child’s hair....(silence) cause there are no words. None at all.
To you Gabby,

Yve and Aaliyah!