Aleia Mims, Leadership Strategist
Teaching women to reclaim their spiritual, social, and emotional power
This morning I woke up utterly content and rested. . No racing thoughts. No clenched jaws. No fatigue. No anxiety. As I watched the sunrise, I contemplated how I got here. I spent most of my life feeling like a failure and a fraud. It was only in small glimpses […]
I took the day off yesterday and it was one of the best decisions I’ve ever made. I decided that it was going to be a no-tech day—no cell phone, computer, texting, television, nada—for at least eight hours. Just me and the birds and the sun. I woke up the […]
I experienced a powerful service last Sunday that’s been percolating in my mind. Bishop T.D. Jakes preached from Matthew 4:1-11, and one of the points he made from the story of Jesus being tempted on the mountain was that no one, no thing, no entity can promise you what’s already […]
In my previous post, I wrote about last Sunday’s Talk about love, happiness, and peace not being the result of external conditions. Two of the ways that we get past the “if onlies” is by surrounding ourselves with people and situations that affirm ourselves as children of God and by […]
This weekend has been an emotional one for me. Nothing traumatic or unusual happened, but the reality that my life is once again completely changing in two weeks really hit me. I’ve been vacillating between excitement and deep sadness, joy and fear, looking ahead and look back. Sometimes the feeling […]
Change can be hard. Really hard. It forces you to examine every minutia of behavior or thought, wonder about its intention, and it even makes you question your own beliefs. During my own transition, I find myself wanting desperately to slip into old patterns because quite simply, it’s easier. I […]