You sit at your table You look down at your hands You ask to yourself “What makes me beautiful?” I sit down too I take your hands in mine I whisper softly “Let me tell you, my love.” “You are beautiful because Of the way you laugh so hard at all the things that worry […]

Written by: Shakira Dinkins   Delight & be, Writer It’s almost back to school time, and the best part of getting ready to go back to school is shopping! School supply shopping is my favorite – clothes, not so much. I mean, I love getting a new outfit as much as the next girl, but then […]

Stacks of books. Piles and piles of clothes. Littering the ground in and outside of my bedroom.  I’d gotten this urge to clean, to purge. The method I followed suggested taking everything off of the shelves and out of the drawers and throwing it on the floor. Instead of looking at the shelf and deciding […]

I LOVE love. I LOVE God. I LOVE my family. I LOVE pizza. I LOVE wearing stripes. I LOVE writing. I LOVE chocolate. I LOVE puppies. I LOVE traveling. I love, I love, I love. See my problem here? Well maybe not problem, but most definitely a need to define. Love as a word can […]

by: Stephanie Tait It seems impossible in this day in age to be female and to be somehow unscathed by self doubt, self depravation, negative body image, negative self talk, fear of judgement, fear of being unloved… the list goes on. And since I myself happen to be one of these humans of the feminine […]

comparison vs confidence  .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .     the importance of being y o u 1 :: c o m p a r i s o n we’ve all thought it. we’ve all […]