This space features selected reflections from our Substack, Shades of Wellness, a living journal with content about healing, discernment, emotional resilience, ancestral wisdom, and biblical restoration. Each entry is a window into the ongoing work of returning to wholeness through faith, embodiment, and honest reflection.

These writings are born from both study and lived experience, offered as gentle invitations to pause, listen inward, and walk the healing journey with depth and clarity.

New entries appear here as they’re released.

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• Before You Know Me, I Must Know Myself
  July 26, 2026 by Lee Marie
  The sacred work of building an identity that cannot be given or taken away by people
• Healing Beyond Systems
  July 12, 2026 by Lee Marie
  Remembering the Knowledge, Resilience, and Cultural Practices That Have Always Sustained Us
• Ancient Wisdom, Modern Barriers
  July 5, 2026 by Lee Marie
  A Reflection on Access, Ancestry, and Healing
• The Power of Choosing Well
  June 28, 2026 by Lee Marie
  Choosing a life partner means choosing your future.
• The Burden of Trying to Know
  June 21, 2026 by Lee Marie
  How we turned intuition into certainty, and what discernment actually asks of us instead.
• To the People Who Love Someone with Fibromyalgia
  June 14, 2026 by Lee Marie
  An invitation into the realities of chronic illness that often remain unseen, even by those closest to us.
• The Bridge Between Inner Worlds
  June 7, 2026 by Lee Marie
  On translation, intimacy, and the real-time practice of being understood in relationship
• The Echoes of Healed Things
  May 31, 2026 by Lee Marie
  Why being reminded of old pain does not mean you are broken again
• While I Was Busy Living
  May 24, 2026 by Lee Marie
  The quiet seasons where life pulls creatives away from the wheel and the sacred return to purpose that follows.
• We Are Always Collecting Pieces
  May 17, 2026 by Lee Marie
  Life as a Collection Process
• There Is No Right Way, Only Ways That Survive and Ways That Evolve
  May 10, 2026 by Lee Marie
  On frameworks, freedom, and the limits of certainty.
• The Right to Be a Beginner Again
  May 3, 2026 by Lee Marie
  On learning spaces, compassion, and the cost of being denied softness while growing
• The Beauty of Wrestling
  April 26, 2026 by Lee Marie
  Holding tension, finding rest, and learning to trust the in-between
• Softness After Survival
  April 19, 2026 by Lee Marie
  A glimpse of the evolution of the Black Woman's self sacrifice.
• Soft Life, Hard Truths
  April 14, 2026 by Lee Marie
  When I think about feminism, I keep returning to one word: autonomy.
• The Weight That Comes After The Decision
  April 5, 2026 by Lee Marie
  What the Mind Closes, the Body Still Carries
• When a Writer Finds a Model
  March 29, 2026 by Lee Marie
  Writing, Identity, and the Power of Being Seen
• Seeing Through the Noise
  March 15, 2026 by Lee Marie
  Social Hierarchies, Bias, and the Quiet Work of Protecting Your Peace
• When What We See Becomes What We Believe
  March 8, 2026 by Lee Marie
  How repetition, culture, and proximity shape what we believe about the world.
• Eyes That See Beyond The Surface
  March 1, 2026 by Lee Marie
  A Journey into Seeing What’s Hidden and Feeling What’s Real