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Healing The Ask Wound
Embracing the Flow of Worthiness Beloved, Last week, we planted roots together, grounding ourselves in safety and remembering: "I am safe...

Maji Avance
Apr 73 min read


Reclaiming Our Time
Black women, the backbone of this nation, have spoken: we tried. We poured our wisdom, love, and labor into building a better future. 92%...

Maji Avance
Jan 212 min read


World Mental Health Day
Today, 10/10, is World Mental Health Day. We have come a long way in our strides to destigmatize mental health and bring more awareness...

Maji Avance
Oct 10, 20223 min read


A Dream Come True
I am born of a generation of Black Women who had little love given to them and an equal measure of love to share. They labored in the...

Maji Avance
Jun 8, 20223 min read


Truth or Dare
Several years ago, back in the good 'ol days, when a quick workout in a sports gym wouldn't potentially kill you, I was at the gym, on a...

Maji Avance
Mar 1, 20222 min read


This is America too
2/22/22 is an indication that anything is possible.

Maji Avance
Feb 22, 20222 min read


Trauma Yamas
PSST…I have a huge secret to share; you’re doing yoga all wrong. For many of us, yoga is an “exercise” that helps us calm the mind and...

Maji Avance
Feb 20, 20225 min read


2/2/22 - 2/22/22
You may have heard people chatting about what wonders await us today. Or, you may have heard others question, “what’s so special about...

Maji Avance
Feb 2, 20223 min read


Cleaning Up For The New Year
Have you seen the New Year's GIF of Cicely Tyson circulating Black social society? The caption suggests that the late great Queen is...

Maji Avance
Jan 1, 20223 min read


Healing our Nervous Systems
In a recent HuffPost article titled, I Can't Self-Care My Way Into Feeling Better Anymore Racine Henry, a therapist and owner of Sankofa...

Maji Avance
Dec 16, 20212 min read


Losing the Wait
It's the most wonderful time of the year! It's that time of year when everyone is reevaluating their life and health choices; preparing...

Maji Avance
Dec 15, 20213 min read


Dating During Divorce
Today would be my 22nd wedding anniversary. That’s so confusing to me. Do I count this year or nah? That’s one of the thousands of...

Maji Avance
Aug 14, 20214 min read


In one moment
The past doesn’t have the authority to write your present moment. Despite every moment of his past, George Floyd changed the world in a...

Maji Avance
Apr 20, 20211 min read


Grow Where You Are Planted
Spring has sprung! I know my neighbors must think I’m “that neighbor.” Everyone around me is busy landscaping their yards. Cutting down...

Maji Avance
Apr 18, 20214 min read


Chapter 46 - Where it all begins
Chapter one, her life begins. Born on the first day of March, to Raymond Riley and Dorothy Avance; the little sister to Valencia Avance...

Maji Avance
Mar 1, 20212 min read


Take me to the water...
If you're reading this you made it. You survived 2020! And now here we are, at the first Sunday of a new year. As I look back over 2020,...

Maji Avance
Jan 3, 20214 min read


...to 2020 and Beoynd...
Here we are, at the end of the first year of a new decade; the 2020's. I've been doing what most people are probably doing these...

Maji Avance
Dec 6, 20202 min read


2020 Vision
Let's Grow

Maji Avance
Oct 10, 20201 min read


This Is America
This Is America. I’m a sucker for unapologetic artistry, so I was enamored by Childish Gambino, AKA Donald Glover, in 2018, when he...

Maji Avance
Jun 9, 20204 min read
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