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This past week, I had something totally unexpected happen to me. My car was parked at an establishment I was visiting and a customer there backed into my car. The hood of my car was pretty badly damaged and it is not a good look for my car. The person that hit me was extremely …

Continue reading "Sunday Family Dinner – Compassion"

As we are now nearing the end of September, most children have been back to school now for a month. As I have been working with children, youth, and adolescents at our practice at Loudoun Counseling and Coaching in Sterling, VA; a theme that has come out is children not knowing their parents' expectations for …

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Happy Sunday Sistas! As we are sitting around the dinner table enjoying Sunday dinner, I want to remind the ladies to start the conversation with their daughters about the importance of female friendships and sisterhood. Anytime I can talk about women coming together and bonding in sisterhood, I think I am fulfilling part of my …

Continue reading "Sunday Family Dinner – Sisterhood (Part 2)"

This edition of the Sunday Family Dinner blog is for the ladies. Ladies, grab your daughters for this conversation at the dinner table and talk to them about Sisterhood. This weekend I had the distinct honor and pleasure of speaking at the Beauty for Ashes Conference hosted at Scripture Cathedrals Ministries in Landover, MD where …

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So, I know you're probably thinking it's not Sunday and that's the day that I usually write the Sunday Family Dinner blog. But, the idea behind the blog is to encourage everyone to go back to having family dinners where everyone sat at the table with no electronic devices and talk. I have been having …

Continue reading "Sunday Family Dinner -What are you telling your children about race, diversity, and difference"

As you know, Sunday Dinner is synonymous with the times where families would come together around the dinner table and talk about topics that were important to each member of the family. For the maternal side of my biological family, those discussions often happened over a big dinner on Sunday after church. With the Sunday …

Continue reading "Sunday Family Dinner – We Are All Human"

We have found ourselves in another precarious place in history in the United States of America. We are again at a place in history where hatred, racism, bigotry, and intolerance are running rampant in this country. There have been countless stories in the news about people of color being referred to using racial slurs by …

Continue reading "Sunday Family Dinner – Lets Talk About Race/Racism"

January is the start of a new year and for some a new beginning. January can be a time of renewal and rebirth. January is also a time where some folk will create New Year Resolutions. I personally, don't agree with or set resolutions myself. 99.9% of the time most people don't keep their resolutions …

Continue reading "Sunday Family Dinner – How Much are You Willing to Invest in Yourself?"

With all of the crazy things happening in this country and world from the increase in racist, hateful behavior to people being homeless and not having enough to eat to the government shutdown leaving thousands of employees without the certainty of their next pay check; it seems weird to even be thinking about the meaning …

Continue reading "Sunday Family Dinner – What does Christmas and this Holiday Season mean to you?"

So I know it's not Sunday but the idea of the Sunday Family Dinner can be applied any day of the week. The idea is to sit with your family with all devices off and put away, and start having real verbal conversations. Sunday dinners was the time where families came together to talk and …

Continue reading "Sunday Family Dinner – What Example are We Showing Our Children?"