Unleash your inner alchemist of self-care
When the world feels like too much, I’m learning to stop reaching outward for solutions and start turning inward for restoration.
Not fixing. Not performing. But softening. Slowing down. Tending gently to what’s real and alive inside of me.
There’s a quiet revolution happening when we choose stillness over performance. When we no longer feels the need to prove our strength by pushing through pain, holding it all together, or wearing resilience like armor.
Perimenopause is the first chapter of the hormonal transition leading toward menopause a tender, often hidden “in-between” place. For many Black women, it’s unfamiliar terrain, navigated mostly in silence. It can begin years before our periods officially stop, usually early to mid-40s, as your body quietly starts recalibrating itself. Yet the unspoken pressure to stay strong and “push through” can make it hard to even name these changes, much less honor them. Acknowledging that you’re entering a new hormonal season is a radical act of self-care and the first step toward restoring emotional balance as we head into midlife.
There’s something about May.
The air feels lighter.
The sunlight lingers.
And something deep within us begins to stretch, soften, and bloom.
For Black women over 40, this season carries its own kind of awakening—a quiet, sacred invitation to become. To listen. To realign. And to reclaim the parts of ourselves that got left behind in the hustle, the caretaking, the survival.
The New Moon begins the next lunar energy cycle and supports us in embracing New Moon Energy such as new beginnings, optimism, setting new goals, and planting seeds. Rituals and activities done during this time help unfurl our inner and truest selves, if we let them. It’s a time for setting intentions and flexing our creative muscles.
Autumn is my seasonal soul Spring and, ultimately, the start of a second new year as we begin energy shifting for Fall and new beginnings manifest abound. Summer is my time to reset and regroup from the fading Winter season and Spring clearing. But Fall is where my heart is, a season where I feel… Continue reading