Author Archives: Lexcee

I fumbled into a body breakdown this week. Exhaustion tackled me like a pro linebacker and laid me flat on my back, and it gave me brief moment to consider the why. Currently, I am in graduate school, but I’m also working full time as a specialist, and also doing an administrative internship, and alsoContinue reading “Girl, what do “YOU” need?”

Sometimes the blows in life come at you fast – faster than speeding bullets, subways and St. Bernards. They chase you down, run you over and what do we do? We get back up. I’ve come to realize that I have survived all the things that could bring a woman low: abusive relationships, death ofContinue reading “The Dirty Word: Therapy”

I got naked. I just took it all off and walked straight into my office as bare as I could be. No fake nails. No pedicure. No perm. I denounced it all, if only but for this moment in time where I am learning to love myself so that others learn how to love meContinue reading “Naked and Black”

I’ve dealt with rejection all of my life, and while it often leaves a bitter aftertaste in my mouth; somehow, I have managed to keep it from turning my heart tart. We’ve all seen it depicted in film. There’s a group of kids huddled up in a circle, and one kid is left jumping onContinue reading “Reframing Rejection”

Even though I am a wife (Mrs.) and mom (affectionally called Ma!), I am not void of me. Before I was ever those other things, I was first me, and throughout the years, “me” got lost in the shuffle of football games, cheer meets, awards days, fixing Sunday dinners, and laboring over the mountainous globContinue reading “Mrs. Ma! and Me”