Why Do You Blog?

I get lots of questions like this from friends and strangers. They say, “you have a full time career, why are you blogging?” My responses vary depending on the audience. In my most honest and pure moments I admit that it’s cheaper than therapy. Life isn’t easy.  And it doesn’t come with an instruction manual.  My [...]

What If There Is Nothing Wrong With You?

Wow.  We spend so much time asking ourselves what is wrong with us (women especially) that we rarely think about the novel concept that nothing is wrong. Hilary Rubin posits this question over at The Huffington Post: I was sitting listening to a recording about practicing being in the moment from my coach Marie Foleo [...]

Book Recommendation: The Master Method

What: The Master Method by Marco Sies.  The Master Method combines the wisdom of the most powerful teachers and leaders in history. This knowledge has been passed around for thousands of years from teachers to students and can be found recorded in the pages of thousands of wonderful books. These writings of ancient masters as well [...]

Building More Happiness in Your Life

Happiness takes work.  Yeah, it doesn’t seem like it should.  Bliss is just supposed to be, not a goal you arrive at.  It requires effort, diligence, and sometimes a little selfishness. As you know we’ve embarked on a Happiness Project here at blackgirlgrown with the help of Gretchen Rubin, author of the New York Times [...]

Quitting Offends All Who Fought For You

Imagine my surprise finding wonderful life advice and inspiration from a blog dedicated to the technical and marketing aspects of blogging.  I typically visit CopyBlogger for advice on how to improve blackgirlgrown, improve my writing, and expand the reach of my little address on the Internet.  A posting by Copyblogger associate editor Jon Morrow caught [...]

Not Feeling Quite Festive?

You’re not alone.  Holidays and birthdays are supposed to be joyous occasions.  But for some of us it is a stock-taking of the year gone by.  And we are never kind to ourselves in appreciating our progress despite the many shortcomings we recount over and over again. It reminded me of an email I sent a [...]

Why Precious is Important (Movie Review)

After I agreed to write a review for the movie Precious I began to wonder if I’m the right person to do so. I say this because I am by no means a big movie-goer. In fact Precious is only the third movie I’ve seen this year — He’s Just Not That Into You and [...]

The Importance of Character

Come Correct columnist Karen Grigsby Bates reminds us of the importance of character. What is character? What one does if he knew he would never be found out. According to Bates: What we do unobserved or when we don’t have to in some measure defines who we are. So to pick some pretty mundane (but [...]

Guest Post: Sophia A. Nelson: An Open Love Letter to My Sisters

Fabulous, stunning, intelligent, warm, caring, devoted, successful, open, graceful, patient, kind, authentic, liberated, funny, multi-talented, entrepreneurial, powerful yet meek, strong yet feminine, nurturing, truthful, uncovered, seeking, spiritual, giving, loving and most of all triumphant. These are just a few of the words that come to mind when I think of the beautiful accomplished black women [...]

Look in the Mirror, Do You Love What You See?

It is rare to find a woman who doesn’t immediately look to her flaws while looking in the mirror. A cellulite dimple here, a scar there, an extra ten pounds everywhere. The list of negatives is endless. I always see a childhood scar, those extra ten pounds, and nettlesome bruises from always bumping into stuff [...]

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