According to the dictionary an empath is: “a person with the ability to sense the mental or emotional state of another individual.” In Liz terms an empath is: someone who consistently puts themselves in the shoes of others and then attempts to sooth that pain as if it’s theirs. We absorb other people’s emotions. …
Last year I got deep into meditation and being aware of the energy around me. My job at the time was stressful and I was around a lot of people, so finding time for myself was imperative. After a busy day at work meditation provided me with the escape I needed to relax and clam…
Disclaimer: The only side I’m taking is mine... I’m Atlanta born and raised, while I’ve grown up in the south my entire life it was a bit of a shock to be in a room of hundreds of people and be the only person who looked like me (besides a couple secret service and videographers).…
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I sat down with Christopher Everett to talk about why he wanted to direct a documentary that puts a microscope on the 1898 massacre of African Americans by an armed white mob in Wilmington, North Carolina. I was surprised to find out the Laurinburg, North Carolina native was so passionate about telling this seldom told…
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If you don’t know it by now, social media is a beast. It has the potential to make you, like James Wright the viral Patti Pie eating singer: And the potential to break you, like Belle Gibson who “lost everything” after she went viral for posing as a cancer survivor to get money: People have…
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