Melissa Renee Nov 2, 2020 3 min Fill Your Cup First, Be SelfFULL Not Selfish Have you ever felt resentful in life about giving support to people and you don't get the same results in return? Your immediate ego driv...
Melissa Renee Sep 22, 2020 7 min Black Sisterhood| Are You a Good Friend? I was recently in this self healing class called Freedom and Flow taught by Malena Crawford, and while in this class we had several speak...
Melissa Renee Aug 25, 2020 5 min I'm Loud & Proud: The Unladylike Diva. Listen, I make no subtlety about saying what's on my mind but it doesn't take away from my femininity. I still display a intimacy with my pa
Melissa Renee Aug 11, 2020 6 min Getting Away From Beauty Standards & Making My Own. Being a woman we've been conditioned that beauty standards are defined by others; and being a black woman it's typically based on Euro-ce...
Melissa Renee Aug 3, 2020 4 min Black Women and Gardening: Health, Sisterhood and Growth So I was sitting in the car with my husband while talking on the phone with my good friend about how covid-19 has sent us in a downward s...
Melissa Renee Jul 21, 2020 5 min Featurism and the standards of Black beauty. THERE CAN'T BE COLORISM WITHOUT FEATURISM. FEATURISM IS TO COLORISM AS WATER IS TO A POND. IS IT MORE OF OUR RESPONSIBILITY TO NOT ONLY R...
Melissa Renee Jun 23, 2020 7 min My Tips to Kick Start Your Health Journey How often have you said that today was THE day? You're finally going on that diet. You're finally going for that run. You're finally goin...
Melissa Renee May 8, 2020 5 min Sis It's Just Facebook...Delete Them People| Reasons Why You Delete People. Listen Sis, it's okay. You're not deleting them from your life or pulling the plug on their oxygen. It's just social media and I promise ...
Melissa Renee May 5, 2020 3 min NOTE TO SELF: Virginity, Love Then Sex. I remember as a young girl my mother never really telling me about the so called "Birds and the Bees". I didn't have an actual conversati...
Melissa Renee Apr 23, 2020 2 min Failure Doesn't Exist Would you believe me if I told you failure doesn't exist? That it's all in our heads? That it's all a figment of our imagination? We put ...