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September 17, 2020

90s Throwback Thursday Jams- TLC – Unpretty

I learned from their documentary on Netflix that this started as a poem written by Tionne “T-Boz.” Continue reading

Poetry, Throwback Thursday Jams

#TeamNatural, #ThrowbackThursday, 90s Jams, beauty, life lessons, love, pretty, self worth, self-esteem, self-love, standards, TLC, Unpretty, videos, YouTube
August 10, 2020

Yecheilyah’s Book Reviews – Learn to Love: Guide to Healing Your Disappointing Love Life by Dr. Thomas Jordan, Ph.D

Title: Learn to Love: Guide to Healing Your Disappointing Love Life Author: Dr. Thomas Jordan, Ph.D Print Length: 132 pages Publisher: Book Baby Publication Date: December 16, 2019 Clinical psychologist Dr. Thomas Jordan Ph.D. offers various suggestions for how couples might enhance their romantic relationships in his book Learn to Love: Guide to Healing Your Disappointing… Continue reading

book reviews

#Book #Review, #MondayBlogs, #Review, authors, blog, blog book review, blogger, blogging, healing, indie, indie authors, love, love relationships, Non-Fiction, patterns, psychologist, relationships, self-love, toxic, trauma, wordpress, writers, writing
July 11, 2019

Nourish Your Root System

At the start of this month, my family and I took a three-city road trip. We picked up my mom-in-law from Memphis, visited some family in Louisiana, and headed down to Houston to see more family. Then, we headed back down to Memphis to close the weekend. We had a great time laughing and eating… Continue reading

Articles, General Topics

balance, blog, blogger, blogging, grounded, reflection, rejuvenation, rest, root system, roots, self worth, self-care, self-love, soulwork, wordpress, work, writers, writing
June 27, 2019

Throwback Thursday Jam – India Aire: Because I am a Queen

Sometimes I wax my eyebrows and sometimes I don’t Sometimes I re-twist my hair and sometimes I won’t depend on how the wind blows I may just paint my toes it really just depends on whatever feels good to my soul I’m not the average girl from your video and my worth is not determined… Continue reading

Throwback Thursday Jams

#IamSoul, #TeamNatural, #ThankfulThursday, #ThrowbackThursday, authentic, love, love yourself, music, self worth, self-love, soul, throwback, videos, YouTube
April 3, 2019

Cry Out

How does it make you feel to see someone mistreating themselves to hear them poison their mouth with self-hate language or disrespect their soul with insecurities does not your intestines cringe do they not wrap themselves around the wrongness there the diseased spirit of a person defeated does not your stomach turn into knots does… Continue reading

Poetry

#NationalPoetryMonth, blog, blogger, blogging, cry out, human, humanity, language, poems, poetic, reflect, reflection, self-love, soulwork, warning, wordpress
March 27, 2019

Cover Wars

We had a private cover war going on in my email list, where I asked my audience to choose between my original cover for Keep Yourself Full and a new concept I was thinking about. Almost everyone chose the new concept and together we decided to switch it up. For those of you who don’t… Continue reading

General Topics

#BeWritingOnWednesday, #Wednesdayblogs, #WWWblogs, blog, blogger, blogging, book publishing, cover, cover wars, Indie Publishing, inspirational, publishing, self-care, self-love, war, wordpress, writers, writing
March 18, 2019

The Most Irritating Thing about the Self-Care Movement

the fact that everything is a movement now like the importance of self-love didn’t exist before Instagram memes like healing is a status update like self-care ain’t a journey but a tweet like healing ain’t a process but words we hang on our Facebook walls and pretend we ain’t cover trauma in hashtags I see… Continue reading

Poetry

blog, blogger, blogging, healing, journey, life, path, poems, process, self-care, self-love, social media, trauma, wordpress

About Me

My name is Yecheilyah (e-see-li-yah), and my work confronts historical erasure and advocates for a more inclusive understanding of Black history. Through book reviews and poetry contests, I uncover and preserve the rich, often underrepresented stories of African Americans.