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Burn the Shell: Why Your Passive Faith is Keeping You Trapped

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Burn the Shell: Why Your Passive Faith is Keeping You Trapped Let’s stop playing small. Look around. We are a culture of builders, creators, and visionaries, yet too many of us are walking around mentally bent over, carrying the crushing weight of a system that was never designed to see us win. We’ve been conditioned to be passive—to sit back, pray for a rescue, and hope for validation from the very institutions that profit off our dependency. That isn't faith. That’s a spiritual sedative. True Imani (Faith) is a fire. It is active, aggressive, and disruptive. But before you can catch fire, you have to scrape off the toxic buildup of doubt, blame, shame, and guilt that has accumulated on your psyche. We’ve become like a collective "Simba," raised by sheep, eating grass, and actively hiding our claws because we’re terrified of our own majesty. We’ve been trained to chase external certifications and look for permission from our captors just to prove our worth. It ends toda...

The Microbiom & Mental Health

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Peace FAM: I am playing catch up but it is cool. I have a couple of moments before I see the doctor so I decided to pen this article. On this video part one and two I get into the little information I have been to gather on this thing called the microbiom. I at first thought that it was about the gut, but the microbiom covers the entire body and can even influence behaviors. This organ or system in our body is estimated to have 100 trillion cells all working with in our bodies. These cells work according to what we put inside of our body by way of eating and drinking. They effect our thinking by releasing neurochemicals that affect the mood, as well as make shifts in our personality. There have been studied that connect some mental illnesses to the second brain which is another name for the microbiom. I had to do this article so that we could look at the information and decide for ourselves if this is legit. They are still researching the microbiom and it is a relatively young fi...