Along the way I've learned we hold the keys to our own happiness. Contrary to popular belief, there's no one thing or person that can find happiness for you. Happiness must come from within, in order to exceed the phase of bliss. Until you learn this lesson, life will continuously bring forth individuals and situations that seem to either abandon or reject you.

Here are a few helpful tips you can apply to your everyday life!

​1. Be honest & content with who you are. One of our biggest issues is avoiding the truth of who we are. In today's world, it's easy to get caught up with beauty standards, financial burden, and childhood hurt. The best thing for you to do is be your authentic self so that the individuals around you are best suitable for where you're going in life. It is only when we are confused about who we are and have not realized our full potential, that we attract karmic partners; in order to trigger an aspect of healing.
Contentment is not complacency, this does not indicate that you should be stagnant. It suggests that you find nobility in your strengths and areas of improvements. There's always room to become better because the ultimate purpose of life is dedicated to collective consciousness. NOT because you aren't good enough!

​ 2.Partake in Healthy/ high vibrational programming: eat foods that work with your enzymes, and supplements deficiencies without causing dysfunction in your organs. If you are going to watch TV and listen to the radio, listen consciously and dissect what you're hearing. Ensure majority of the information isn't absorbed by your subconscious, to be used against you due to lack of knowledge .
Choose the company you keep with discernment, vibes are contagious! You can love people from a far without having them negatively influence your life.


3. Pay attention to your surroundings: Think about what you see and allow yourself to vibrate on gratitude. Give thanks for the things that help you in your every day life, the people who assist you, the food that nourishes your body, the sun that replenishes the earth and the simple things that we can sometimes overlook.

4. Take time to detach from the outside world: you owe it to yourself to give extensive care to your mind, body and soul. We can get so caught up in healing the outside world or taking care of basic every day life that we forget to check on our mental health, see how we're feeling about what's been occurring, and allow ourselves to use everything as a checkpoint for our growth/evolution. Turn your phone off for a couple hours a day, a couple days a week or whatever works for you! Get into a comfortable place away from, people, social media, business etc. Pamper yourself in anyway you see fit, this is also the best time to journal, detox, sunbathe and reset.

5. Take a trip: It doesn't have to be to a foreign country, another state, and it doesn't even have to be too far from your home but allow yourself to experience new things daily. Sticking in your norm can become depressing! If you introduce yourself to new opportunities, you then attract more experiences, which teach you to uplift/expand your existence.

6. Get Active: Whether it's outdoor activities, gym workouts, dance, sex or yoga, the hormones released when you exercise increases brain activity and staying active is great for your blood circulation. Help your body carry oxygen where it needs to be, to keep your health in check. Sex has its own extensive list of pluses! Two words oxytocin and orgasms!!

7. Maintain a healthy connection with source: stay connected with your higher self and your life's purpose. Take steps forward so that the universe can award you for your productivity. When you claim who you are and let nothing stop your process, the vibration of persistence naturally attracts the resources you need. Stay up on your prosperity rituals, affirm and do the work daily! The best thing you can do for yourself is commit! Things won't always be positive but use your personal power to transmute them ALL into positivity.

Writer: @MrsMelaninReigns
Model: @MrsMelaninReigns
Photographer: @YOUniversall_

There are two types of Pain
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Pointless Pain: The outcome of resistance and becoming a slave to the ego
The Pain That Evolves You: The outcome of faith and surrendering to your higher self



A short story about the foreshadowing reflections of Venus in retrograde:

My "romantic" love life or lack thereof, is under critical evaluation. Where have I fallen short of loving myself?
In what spaces, during what time periods?
Finally, I've found the courage to reinstall Snapchat, where I saved countless memories of us.
I worked hard over the last few months to remove them from my brain, but I now know that the key is to instead reprogram my feelings towards our experience.
You were my friend I whispered . . . .
To myself, . . . because there is no one else in this room besides my body and your memories.
You were my friend, you made me laugh even in moments where I resisted the urge and you would lay your head between my thighs just because you felt safe there.
That night when you begged me not to leave you, you must have felt my mind wandering, my soul unsatisfied and my body breaking free from bondage of this superficial love we built.
We spent 80 percent of our relationship too high to realize we weren't good for each other and 90 percent of our time not being true to ourselves.
I reminisce on nights where I cleaned the house, ironed your clothes, made dinner then proceeded to eat it alone in silence.
I could always depend on you to bring home a box of dessert. Cashews & cranberries covered in and topped off with excuses.
It was then that I realized my love for you became abusive to my own health.
I'd eat those excuses as if my decision to become abstinent wasn't proof that I knew of your late night expeditions.
I expressed the revelations of my dreams to you time after time to help you come clean about something we both felt.

We were falling apart.
Today I am still uncertain if it was due to lack of chemistry or your lack of discipline.
You were in search for the attention your mother too often deprived you of.
I should've known you would run because your father never stayed. I knew the game but still opted to play because this would soon become the pain that evolved me.

Fatherless, a concept I tried to refrain from accepting.
What does a man do? How could I be certain?
I've never relied on a man for his protection or provision but I yearn for those very qualities in the partner I wish to spend my life with.

Someone should have taught us about complementary balance.
That the person for you fills in those spaces, like holding hands. . . .

The first time you held my hand was in the woods, the same day you opted to leave, but couldn't follow through.
​I wondered, how could someone keenly tell me I wasn't who they needed, then turn back around and beg me to stay.
I now wonder how much self value and love I lacked to allow you to treat me as a if I was disposable. 
There was a part of me that never asked you for anything, yet the other half needed to know she was worth protecting, loving and investing in.
It became no doubt that truth would hit the fan and I'd be tested on the advice I give out so freely to others "love yourself".
I have started to reprogram my mind to reminisce on the great times where the illusion of our love filled me with so much joy. I now know that our experience was the pre show to the unconditional love that has been gifted to me.
I spend time reflecting in gratitude and no longer cowering in pain.
You were a checkpoint for my ego and un applied knowledge.
Here I stand today, with a clear vision of what type of lover I will be:
Unapologetic
Unconditional
Nurturing
Inspirational
Balanced
And ever-evolving
I am 5 months into the best relationship I've ever had with myself and I find new ways to love my true self every day.


A piece of advice for Venus Retrograde: Reflect on the facts in love, agree to do better and work towards it with patience and compassion.


Self love is your foundation for attracting the love you deserve to evolve in and with.

Writer: @MrsMelaninReigns
Photographer: @theebonybabe @photosbydejah
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Rosa Parks wasn't the first to stand her ground and she certainly wasn't the last.
However, 21st Century black women are taking this protest far beyond a bus. . . .
To a lifestyle & infinite experience

Black Women Worldwide are standing in their power and refusing to be silenced,as the divine feminine energy resurfaces in our atmosphere.

There is no longer a tolerance for imitation without the rightful respect and recognition of who we are.

Indoubtedly, we are the mothers of humanity and civilization but most importantly, we hold the most sacred pathway between the physical and spiritual realms.
White boys and girls drank from the breasts of our mothers whilst we went hungry, in search of nurturing and nourishment.

Our childhoods were stripped away from us, in order to attend to the heavy burdens of impoverishment.
BUT... make no mistake about it, this isn't just another story of pity!
It's a story of empowerment.
It's the story of how truly divine the black woman must be, in order to make it through the tests of time.
Isn't it God who makes a way out of no way? Isn't it God who reigns mercy upon an ungrateful and undeserving people time after time?
Is the black woman not God within herself?
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If you have misunderstood, or second guessed any of the information above, this blog post isn't for you.
Black Woman,
Who are you?
You are soul, you are SOURCE

Refrain from belittling your intuition and purpose, in order to conform to who society told you, you should be.
You ARE Ma'at, ying and yang, masculine and feminine, positive and negative energy!
Ultimately, you are the greatest reflection of androgyny in the flesh.
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From here on out, you are being urged to take QUALITY care of yourself and your sisters. Let self love and self care become so ritualistic, that anything less is cast out to the shadows for dead.
Black woman, you will no longer be a host to parasitic corporations, entities, partnerships and race relations.
You will no longer stand in your own way, whilst giving everyone else a clear pathway to walk all over you.
The time is now to stand in your power and bring back the full essence of divine feminine energy to your homes and communities. We are the first teachers of this world, and we must hold ourselves accountable.
Set the tone for how you will be treated & don't you dare let them discourage you from your purpose.
You are a multidimensional manifester, so return back to your roots, treat your mind, body and soul with respect and be the light you wish to ignite in others.
There is no more space on our backs to carry the dead weight humanity .

Prosperity & Wholeness
@MrsMelaninReigns
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Model: Alona Williams
MUA:Vanessa German
Photographer: Vanessa German