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Life's Gumbo

SoulMed Holistic Health Collaborative

Life is complicated. Culture is complicated. Healing is complicated. Sometimes we need somewhere to sit with all of it.Life's Gumbo is where I make meaning of the stories, systems, beliefs and everyday experiences shaping Black women's lives.

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The sentence that stopped me cold

Hey, girl, hey On Wednesday, I asked you where you're still auditioning for a seat that should already be yours. I said we wouldn't sit with that question alone. So here's Sunday (eh ... Monday ... but who's really checking); the deeper pot. I brought the essay underneath that question, four reads to sit with, a hometown woman worth knowing, and, at the bottom, the room where we get to put it all down together. Come as you are. Let's get into it. The spice What If I Stop Working for Love? I...

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I turned 50. Now I'm holding space for us.

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Sis, the group chat saved me this week

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Bae, alive isn't the same as free

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BAEBEA, would you still call it holy?

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Baby, let them eat fish and beans

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Sis, let your belly out ... this bowl is pure joy

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Pull up a chair, sis — the first bowl is ready

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