If you aren’t spending time with positive people who uplift you and motivate you towards achieving your goals, you are doing yourself a big disservice. As a 15-year old, I was careful to make friends who have similar priorities to mine. That way, I knew there was a good chance that I would achieve my […]
Make a good impression! Put your best foot forward, and be respectful. That’s how I might summarize my life lessons on how to show up well at work. And my time volunteering at my mother’s job – the mental hospital, taught me those life lessons better than anyone could. Even as a teenager, I intrinsically […]
Show appreciation for others, no matter what your job is. My job as a volunteer at the mental hospital wasn’t necessarily the most exciting. My work involved lots of filing, shredding papers or doing deliveries across the hospital campus. Yet through those simple tasks, I learned different ways to show my appreciation for the opportunity […]
Your work, no matter how small, can make a difference. At this point in the story from my memoir, Life After Birth: A Memoir of Survival and Success as a Teenage Mother, I was volunteering at the mental hospital where my mother worked. I was doing simple things like filing and shredding papers and delivering […]
Can you overcome fear of the unknown? Absolutely. This lesson came alive for me while still volunteering at my mom’s job at the mental hospital where she was working. The campus, in my opinion, was huge with several buildings all over the campus. When I looked at the vast campus, I wasn’t sure how I […]
When I was a teenager, I learned first-hand to appreciate having a healthy mind and body. I was privileged to volunteer at my mother’s job. At the time she was working in a mental hospital. The hospital had a volunteer program for teenagers. Unknown to me at the time, that experience would show me the […]
“Learn from the past and don’t dwell on shortcomings” has been a major lesson for me throughout my life. As I continue sharing the lessons learned that I wrote at the end of each chapter of my memoir, Life After Birth, I reflect on this critical point of growth and personal forgiveness. I had been […]
Throughout my journey as a single mother, one of the greatest lessons I’ve learned is how to be thankful. Thankful for big things. Thankful even for the smallest things. Throughout my memoir, I share lots of people and things that I’m thankful for. SO Much Gratitude I was grateful when a classmate in the 6th […]
When I decided it was time for me to share my story of how I became a teen mother yet beat the statistics, I began to reflect on my life. And how I got to a place where my self-esteem was so low that I felt that just because this boy told me that I […]
