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Locked In Memories: The Emotions We Never Forget

 Some powerful memories lay waiting –  emotionally powerful  as the day they first took shape in our mind. I was working on  a new project and my mind immediately thought of a photo I’d captured on my phone while casually waking one morning   Realizing that the photo would be perfect I decided I’d use it But, I had not realized how long ago I’d taken that photo.  So, I began  rummaging through…

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Mama’s Best Advice: Words of Wisdom Digest

Life can be good when we decide to give ourselves a checkmark, an A+ But we don't give ourselves an A when we stop aiming for it believing it is impossible.

TRAPPED AND AFRAID:WHY SOME PEOPLE NEVER ESCAPE By Ⓒ WANDRACHENAULT, Mama(cita)SezWisdom™ October 2023 We all know the story of the elephant.  The largest creature on earth often captured,  trapped and controlled by a metal anklet.  The largest manual on earth,  is capable of setting himself free. But,  the elephant has lost contact with  his essence, his strength, the giant he was meant to…

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A Hand to Hold

Human touch triggers the "The Love Hormone, oxytocin. Hand holding stimulates this neurotransmitter.

Mama’s Best Advice: Words of Wisdom Digest I awoke one morning and felt ill. My stomach queasy and  I saw the  room spinning…   a  little. I  reached for a few sips of water and felt a tiny bit better. Then, looking for support, I made a few calls, I needed to share the words, “I don’t feel well,”  but, none of the calls provided the reassurance I needed. I needed a hand to hold.  I  felt…

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Rejection

Rejection is one of the negative emotions we will experience in life and it can teach us a lot about ourselves.

“You cry, you scream, you breathe, you learn.”  Rejection is painful, heart wrenching, soul crushing and it’s one of the facts of life. On the flip side, rejection  allows one  to develop tolerance to pain and to an ego assault. Rejection is an opportunity for learning through  experience although it can be a difficult, sometimes excruciating  lesson allowing one to feel  deflated and …

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Love, Any Love

Mama’s  Best Advice: Words of Wisdom Digest ‘Tis better to have love and lost,  Than not to have love at all?  (Alfred, Lord Tennyson)  by Wandra Chenault, Mama(cita)SezWisdom  on September 04 Is it better to have loved and lost than not to have loved at all?  Luther Vandross performed the song “Any Love,” and he had it right. I had or maybe I still have the biggest crush and,   it has been…

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Things that take my breath away: Dealing with Anxiety

Things that take my breath away: Dealing with Anxiety

Mama’s Best Advice: Words of Wisdom Digest Anxiety Whether the source is awaiting success, sadness, or what’s in between, anxiety can be painful. Acceptance of extremes has become as normalized as mass shootings, housing prices, tornados, COVID, and gas prices. But, some things are especially emotionally toiling and when those things compile, my emotional response – anxiety – can take my…

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Mama’s Best Advice: Words of Wisdom  Digest The Brain In My Heart When my heart remembers what I’ve tried to forget. by Wandra Felecia-Najat MamaSezWisdom™  My heart skips a beat, I’m feeling happy and excited, then fearful and alone,  all after I see a picture.  It’s of someone I’ve loved who has since drifted away.  Although we aren’t together, my heart has kept a record of the emotions,…

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When There’s No Time For “Goodbye.”

When it happens so quickly, there may be no time for goodbye and you can be left with a lot of emotions.

Mama’s Best Advice: Words of Wisdom Digest As a leaf on a limb swiftly falls—when a breeze passes, it can happen so quickly that there’s no time for “goodbye.” by Wandra F Chenault, MSW                                                                                   MamaSezWisdom™ November 30, 2021 There are times in life when there’s no time for goodbye – and it’s not always because someone…

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Affirmation

I will always love myself, through any situation, any circumstance, any hardship, and any criticism, even when others refuse to love me, I will love myself.

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Wandra Chenault, MSW MamaSezWisdom Mama’s Best Advice:Words of Wisdom Digest Jilted: when you’re on the receiving end of a mean spirited rejection Misled, taken advantage of, betrayed, humiliated: words that describe the feelings associated with being jilted. by Wandra Chenault, MSW MamaSezWisdom™  9/15/2021 What is being jilted? One definition reads, “To deceive or drop (a lover) suddenly…

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I Grew Into This Person

I Grew Into This Person

Mama’s Best Advice:Words of Wisdom Digest And I’m still growing: Life is not a 50 yard dash, it is a marathon. When you get it, you become a winner.  September 2021 by Wandra Chenault, MSW MamaSezWisdom™ Langston Hughes’ poem Crystal Stair is like my brief biography. I am an African American black female, fathered  by a Pentecostal Minister My father was often  physically  absent but  always…

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Finding love is one of the most important human experiences.

Mamas Best Advice:Words of Wisdom Digest FINDING LOVE: adversary, competitor, business partner, lover, “sacrificatorio” or kindred spirit? What is the love you seek, attract or reject? by Wandra Chenault, MamaSezWisdom  Sharing your space, your time, your intellect, and your intimate affections can be one of the most important decisions in your life.   Finding the ‘love of their life’ comes…

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The Tragedy of Tuskegee and the Consequences With The Coronavirus - Vaccine Hesitancy in African Americans

The Tragedy of Tuskegee and the Consequences With The Coronavirus – Vaccine Hesitancy in African Americans

by Wandra F Chenault, MSW Post Trauma Impedes Vaccinations and May Increase Rates of Morbidity/Mortality in African Americans Exposed to the Coronavirus: Consequence of  the Tuskegee Experiment(1932-1972) for Black Americans My hairdresser was in Africa but her daughter was available. The previous time I’d gone to the shop for a wash and condition of my natural hair, I’d been extremely…

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Mama's Best Advice:Healing Words

Mama’s Best Advice:Healing Words

Happiness will not be found in objects, like cars or  cash and it won’t be found in people either.  by Wandra Chenault, MSW.                                                           Mama Sez Wisdom In Search of Happiness When we’ve found our happiness, we’ve found our balance, purpose and meaning of life. In this complex world, finding happiness can seem confusing and maybe even elusive.…

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FROM WHEN WE BELIEVED IT WAS MANDATORY, INTO THE MOSES MOMENTUM

FROM WHEN WE BELIEVED IT WAS MANDATORY, INTO THE MOSES MOMENTUM

From When We Believed it Was Mandatory: How We Got Here

Africans were brought to the New World as slaves. It was mandatory for them to live and work on the farms, plantation-homes and businesses of their masters.

For hundreds of years (in their quest to dominate the world) European conquistadors partnered with aspiring and seasoned slaveowners to develop plantation capitalism.  The…

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Taking Sunshine and Rain in Equal Grace

Taking Sunshine and Rain in Equal Grace. Some sense of brief periods of happiness is essential during good and bad times

  Taken by Alexander J. Chenault

by Wandra Najat-Felecia Chenault, MSW                                                                MamaSezWisdom

Life is not always easy but, it isn’t always allbad either. Fairness,  justice,  oppression, racism and inequity  are issues that  cause pain, sorrow and despair. None of these issues can be healed with band-aid words, sermons  or techniques.  I am…

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Nature Always Overpowers, Nature Always Wins

Nature Always Overpowers, Nature Always Wins:man must learn to live by the rules of nature because he cannot control it.

  Man must learn to live by the rules of nature because man cannot control nature

by Wandra Najat-Felecia Chenault, MSW                                                                                      Mama Sez Wisdom

At the source of  some of life’s most challenging situations  are our challenges with nature. We build a home on the coast and there is flooding. As we’ve observed by some of…