(ThySistas.com) There is a particular kind of tired that lives in the bones of a woman who has spent years trying to earn what should have been offered freely. You know the one I mean. Let me sit with you a minute, because somebody has to say this plain. You ...
(ThySistas.com) There comes a season when a grown woman looks over her life and sees that nearly every fix she reached for fell short, while the one thing left on the shelf stayed quiet, waiting the entire time. I’m talking to my Sistas now. The ones running on empty, carrying ...
(ThySistas.com) Emotional isolation rarely announces itself in an empty room. Most times it moves into a household stacked with noise and laundry and folks who would swear on a Bible that they adore you. This goes out to the wife who feels more like a co manager than a partner ...
(ThySistas.com) Loyalty and self erasure are not synonyms, though the romance script handed down to most of us treated them like interchangeable words. My family kept a version of one story on damn near every branch of the tree. One aunt paid a light bill eleven years running on hair ...
(ThySistas.com) There is a particular kind of accounting that Black women learn to do without ever being taught. We tally the people we believe we owe, and we keep that ledger open for decades. The job is on the list. So is the house, the mother who calls twice a ...
(ThySistas.com) Sunday mornings get quiet in a certain way, especially when the coffee is good and the phone is already in your hand. Last week I was sitting there scrolling and a woman I went to college with popped up. She had on white linen, standing at the edge of ...
(ThySistas.com) All work and no play creates a monster, and an unhealthy body. There is always a project at work, something to do with our man, and let’s not even get started with kids…that a never ending job. There is always a bed to make, laundry to do, bathrooms to ...
(ThySistas.com) Perimenopause is one of those chapters in a Black woman’s life that we don’t talk about nearly enough. We talk around it, we joke about “the change,” we watch our aunties fan themselves in church or our mamas suddenly switch to cotton sheets in the middle of winter, but ...
(ThySistas.com) During the course of any kind of relationship it is very important to check stubborn pride at the door. One has to be willing to admit when actions and/or words have been hurtful, and offensive. When this happens by it’s important to admit the hurtful behavior, and work towards ...
(ThySistas.com) Anxiety disorder is real, and there are millions of people living with it. Some are managing medically, and there are many that have no diagnosis but have all the symptoms. It is important that we have understanding and compassion for our sisters struggling with anxiety. Some of them live every ...