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Pack Light: The Real Cost of Relationship Baggage By Lakara Foster, M.ED

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A few weeks ago, I was having lunch with a friend who was excitedly going over her itinerary for an upcoming trip to Europe. Her plan is to visit several countries over the course of a few weeks. My friend proceeded to tell me she was planning to only take a backpack with all of the essentials she could cram into it. She explained that it is cheaper to fly from country to country within Europe because the airlines only allow you to bring carry-on luggage so everyone on board has to “pack light”. During the course of this seemingly general conversation, I had a major breakthrough about relationships. There is a very real and heavy cost when you choose to carry baggage from relationship to relationship instead of unpacking before each journey.  Not dealing with your “stuff” can affect you on a physical, emotional, and spiritual level. Within one year of finishing graduate school, I found myself in an emotionally abusive relationship and 25 pounds heavier. This period beg...

FORGIVENESS By BOSS Member Yanni Brown

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If you find that you are STUCK in RESENTMENT, BROKEN HEARTEDNESS, HURT or PAIN and asking WHY ME? The answer is FORGIVENESS...and WHY NOT YOU? Forgiveness... WHY NOT YOU? He chose YOU because there is bigger plan for your life! FORGIVENESS is NOT for the Other person! It is for you. So that you can move FORWARD to DO & BE the person that HE is calling you to BE! Making LOVE Better Begins Within! So LET GO & BE..... The face of forgiveness dares you to imagine a better you, a better future. Forgiveness challenges you to GIVE UP your negative and destructive thoughts about your situation or circumstance and believe in the POSSIBILITY of what is better for YOU! BUILD a better you, learn the lesson, survive and GROW from it. FORGIVENESS is FOR YOU! If you have ever been on the other side of hurt and pain... The lesson is this...There is someone who has been through or going through what you have experienced and is waiting on your testimony to help them get through it. (WE ALL NEE...