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Last Week’s Lesson – Find Your Own Happiness (& Stop Looking to Others For It)

March 25, 2014 by afrobella 15 Comments

Last Week’s Lesson – Find Your Own Happiness (& Stop Looking to Others For It)

From time to time, I share my personal revelations and life lessons on Instagram or Facebook. Recently when I shared one, a friend encouraged me to blog about it and share my truth here on Afrobella.com. That inspired this new series, Last Week’s Lesson. I hope others can learn from my experiences! I used to…

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Filed Under: Issues, Life Tagged With: happiness, inspiration, issues, Last Week's Lesson, Life, life lessons

10 Things I Learned Last Year to Make 2014 Awesome

January 6, 2014 by afrobella 17 Comments

10 Things I Learned Last Year to Make 2014 Awesome

2013 was a year of new experiences and opportunities I couldn’t have anticipated before. I found myself going to places I’ve never been, dealing with issues from my past that I hadn’t dealt with in years, and having to rise to the occasion to represent on levels that I never dreamed of. I did a…

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Filed Under: Featured, Life Tagged With: Featured, full-pic, inspiration, Life, life lessons, lifestyle

What Beyoncé’s New Album Release Taught Me

December 16, 2013 by afrobella 30 Comments

What Beyoncé’s New Album Release Taught Me

In case you took a social media break over the weekend and missed the explosion, Beyoncé released a new album when absolutely nobody was expecting it. 17 songs. 14 videos. And all she did was post a sneak preview video on Instagram and say “surprise!” She sold 450,000+ in the first day. Her latest release…

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Filed Under: Featured, Issues, Pop Culture Tagged With: beautiful black women, beyonce, Beyonce new album, celebrities, Featured, inspiration, Inspiring Women, issues, Life, life lessons, Pop Culture

How To Live A Life More Like Nelson Mandela’s

December 6, 2013 by afrobella 13 Comments

How To Live A Life More Like Nelson Mandela’s

  On December 5, 2013, the world lost Nelson Mandela. At age 95, he had lived an incredibly full life and news of his ailing dominated headlines this year, so hearing that Mandela had passed made me feel a strange mixture of sadness and acceptance. As Bishop Desmond Tutu expressed, “we are relieved that his…

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Filed Under: Featured, Life, Pop Culture Tagged With: inspiration, issues, Life, life lessons, Mandela, Nelson Mandela, Pop Culture, quotes, RIP

Real Advice For Nigella Lawson And For So Many Women Just Like Her

June 23, 2013 by afrobella 10 Comments

Real Advice For Nigella Lawson And For So Many Women Just Like Her

The recent photos of Nigella Lawson being publicly assaulted by her husband, advertising magnate and multimillionaire art collector Charles Saatchi, hurt my heart and made me feel sick to my stomach. Seeing these images of this man’s hand wrapped around her throat, flicking her nose in obvious, familiar disrespect and degradation made so many questions…

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Filed Under: Featured, Issues, Life Tagged With: domestic violence, Featured, inspiration, Inspiring Women, issues, Life, Nigella Lawson

Ten Realizations About Being In Your Thirties

May 14, 2013 by afrobella 55 Comments

Ten Realizations About Being In Your Thirties

  Lately I’ve been seeing a lot of my friends freaking out about turning 30, or being 30. This year I turned 34, so I think I have a little perspective to share. Not a lot, just a little. Just enough to tell all of you to stop freaking out about turning 30, or being…

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Filed Under: Featured, Issues, Life, Popular Tagged With: Beautifully Aging Bellas, inspiration, issues, Life, life lessons, thirty

My Biggest Fitness Inspirations

March 28, 2013 by afrobella 15 Comments

My Biggest Fitness Inspirations

CBS Sunday Morning is one of my favorite shows, and I set my DVR so I can watch it AND sleep in every weekend. It’s such a great show that covers so many topics. This last Sunday, there was a feature on ubiquitous fitness personality Jillian Michaels (click to watch it if you want to)….

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Filed Under: Body, Featured, Issues, Life Tagged With: exercise, Featured, fitness, full-image, health, health and fitness, inspiration, Inspiring Women

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