Cleaning House 🧹
Like Cinderella do 👸🏼
Spring Menu 📖
Windy March: It’s Sommer Time 🌴
April Showers: Updates/Spring Cleaning 🔺
May Flowers: Emily McDonald vs. Doom Scrolling 💀
Sommer Time In Spring 🏝️
I recently had the honor of appearing on the 'It's Sommer Time' podcast 🎙️
Sommer Hill stirred up a chat about love, role models, and relationships — tricky and misunderstood subjects in the Black community.
It resulted in a healthy, excited dialogue that spellbinded the studio, bursting into a spiritual powwow amongst friends.
It's a refreshing, mature conversation that sheds light on critical issues 💡
I bet you’ll learn a thing or two about the minds of young men and women of today 📍
I am eager to hear your thoughts!
Check out Sommer Hill’s YouTube and website as well. She’s doing great work in the media space and deserves recognition for it.
Don’t have time for the full video? 📺
Watch top performers on my YouTube and TikTok.
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Housekeeping 🏡
I have a good sense of what it’s like to be a grouch.
I have lived as one over the last few weeks.
Just been a little down lately, and my writing, my most precious expression of emotion, has reflected that.
With all my talk of positivity and optimism, it’s counterproductive for my writing to be in this funk. I’ve decided to emotionally clean house. I also resolve to actually clean my house. Dishes are piling up.
With Down to Earth, I strive to build a community around healthy living and share what feels good. That’s it.
As a writer, I’ve noticed myself getting caught up in the quality of my content, rather than just saying what’s on my mind. It creates a frustrating cycle where I stress the result and lose sight of the process — the most important part.
I often feel pressured to write the next great American novel with each new edition of my newsletter, which contradicts the nature of this being a casual read.
Last week, I sent out a content survey to my readers, in a bid to learn what’s important to y’all. It has been both revealing and exciting to read your feedback. It’s brought a sense of focus to my mission of serving this community. I hope to make you feel heard, felt, and seen with my newsletter — in this way, I am your servant.
For these few sacred minutes every Sunday morning, it’s an honor to gift you self-love and offer growth. Still, accepting, and free.
This Substack was never about growth, numbers, or blowing up. That boxes you in, and we’re all about the extraordinary here.
My ultimate pleasure is serving the people I love and bringing value to their lives. If I do nothing else, I am satisfied with that.
In keeping with the theme of renewal, let’s return to form and plunge into the concept of spring cleaning, keeping close to what brings us joy.
Spring Cleaning 🧹
How to Mindfully Spring Clean
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