Rebelle Society

Thank Your Demons, Then Set Them Free.

Instead of waging war against those voices of doubt and despair, could you maybe thank them? They are working so very hard to try to keep you safe from hurt in the only way they can. How do they know that really you are stepping toward wholeness? It’s outside the world they know, and you always ...

Masquerade Ball: The Unmasking Of She.

By Shelly Aspenson

wisdom

Caught In The Crossfire: Loving Those Mired In Dysfunction.

By Cherish Osborne

troublemakers

An Ode To Young Mothers.

I wish I’d loved my body instead of simultaneously rejecting and protecting the very life that was growing within it. I kept my babies healthy and made myself sick because God forbid, anything could be allowed to be easy when it was clearly a big mistake. I know now that children of young moms ...

poetry

Amorphous Playmate. {poetry}

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you & me

We Are Created Of Love, By Love, To Love.

Some of us just need a stark awakening from the slumber, to uncover what we’ve always known deep down. We are love.

wisdom

My Banging-Around Heart: Growing Up Unseen.

It is terrifying, arduous and painful work to discover, accept, and embrace all of who you really are, to let go of the story of being unseen, and to leave behind the paradoxical safety and comfort zone of your chaotic banging-around pain. It may feel insurmountable or impossible to believe ...

world

Loving Fully: It’s Time To Look Stupid.

By John Kim

wisdom

Choose Your Fate: The Gifts of Low Self-Esteem.

At a certain point, I realized I was in no way heading in any direction towards feeling any sense of self-love or deserving, and I got really fucking mad. Is this my fate that was laid out for me? Some kind of sentence I must serve? Should I just accept that this is the limitation of my ...

world

A Blinding Shade Of Privilege.

We must first modify the system and the white behavior that has created this whole mess to begin with. Just as gender equality cannot be attained until we men change our dominant ways, racial equality will only occur when white folks decide to step aside, step down and make room for everyone else.

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