(ThySistas.com) As a black woman, I truly believe God made no race of women stronger. My perspective does not stop me from appreciating women of other races, and ethnicities. However, I choose to acknowledge the strength, grace, beauty, and mystical nature that is black women. With that being stressed there is ...

(ThySistas.com) Black women usually somewhere between our late 30s and early 40s start to realize that emotional maturity isn’t just something people talk about in self‑help books. It’s a real, lived practice. A discipline. A choice we have to make over and over again, especially when life, family, work, and ...

(ThySistas.com) Re‑establishing discipline, or building it for the very first time, is one of those journeys that looks simple on paper but feels deeply personal when you are actually living it. Especially for us as Black women, moving through a world that constantly asks for more than it gives, discipline ...

(ThySistas.com) Life has a way of humbling us, stretching us, and sometimes knocking the wind right out of our spirit. And for many Black women in our middle years, that truth hits a little deeper. We’ve lived enough life to know joy and heartbreak, triumph and disappointment, clarity and confusion. ...

(ThySistas.com) Far too often life can become a monotonous battle to survive. Every day it feels like something else is happening. Just when you think it can’t get any worse…it does. As a woman, we often feel it’s important to keep pushing, keep praying, and try to keep ourselves together. ...

(ThySistas.com) I’ve always hated the saying, “Ignorance is bliss”. It goes against everything I have seen, been taught, and experienced. Ignorance has never kept a black person alive, not sheltered them from the evils of the world. As a matter of fact, ignorance can get us killed figuratively and literally. ...

(ThySistas.com) My grandmother always told me that what is only known by some will one day be known by all. Mardi Gras is frequented by thousands of people. Mardi Gras in New Orleans has always been complicated for me, and many Black natives from the city. I learned early that ...

(ThySistas.com) I am from New Orleans. I was born and raised here as were my parents, and elders going back over five generations. We grew up with music and food that was like religion to us, and the city moved to its own culture sound and drum. It was not ...

(ThySistas.com) Recently I saw a young lady in the store. I knew she was disabled and in great pain. So was I.  I had been going through a lot with my health challenges. Auto-immune diseases are never the same, and no day is the same. I’ve lost a lot of ...

(ThySistas.com) Who am I? This is a question that haunts many people. It is one that is often dictated by the validation and expectations of others. From the time we enter the world we are told who we are and what we should be. As women this is far more ...