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I never realized that the reason I never felt like I wasn't enough was because I felt like I never had a place to belong. Being bullied by my own and not fitting their idea of what it meant to be black and being different than those around me, was something that left me me with a void. And this is what fuels my passion and is what pushed me to write this blog and create this platform. This is needed! The rate of people who feel alone, feel like taking their lives, and feels like they don't have anyone to lean on is growing! But I want it is IMPERATIVE that you and everyone who may have some sense of pain, neglect, loneliness, etc. due to bullying understand that you have at least someone and they want you to stand tall against everything that threatens who you are, who you will become, and the voice that you have to help others as well.

Over the years and learning to love myself, I’ve come to realize that what I had always been looking for was a sense of belonging in a world who told me I was different. That my uniqueness and background and culture had no place here. As if, there is a place I felt I needed to be. At that time in my life, I wasn’t strong enough to stand in my uniqueness and not look for acceptance and the sense of wanting to be accepted. That’s what makes you, us, everyone vulnerable. Vulnerable to their attack’s. Vulnerable to the pain it inflicts. Vulnerable to forcing yourself into a box. But I ask you, what would make you resist temptation to fit in? How can you learn to love who you are and accept who you are when everyone else seems to not accept you?

Full transparency, I didn’t fit in high school and to be honest, at times I felt like I barely fit -in in college, yet somehow I am finding my place. Finding where I belong. Finding me. And sometimes finding who you are, requires finding the strength to stand tall against anything that threatens to tear you down!

So I ask you, are you ready?