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Everyday, I take a sensuous bite into the fruit of my heart, CWUW .  Its my dream and my love. It drives me daily because I really want to provide an organization for women to learn, grow, and find the support they need to be healthy.  It is here. I work daily. I pray daily. I live daily for CWUW.  But CWUW is like a troubled child....needing an extra hug but sometimes punishment. It is the hardest thing I've every done. It rides my emotions making me question my ability to do something like this but it is my passion and my love. I won't adandon CWUW.  I will go through the terrible 2's with my baby. I'm thankful for friends to continue to push me and support me in this dream by offering information and advice.  I'm always looking for professional mentorship but its hard to find. Because I'm so focused and always working, people think that I have it all figured out but I don't.  I'm still learning and growing myself. I need direction at times to ke...

Center of Wellness for Urban Women - C W UW is truly moving forward in its efforts to provide women with an organization that cares about their health and wellness needs. C W UW has partnered with the Indiana Minority Health Coalition (IMHC) to develop research projects focusing on health disparities concerning minority women. C W UW will be represented on the community advisory board with the IU National Centers of Excellence in Women's Health . C W UW has gained permission from Mental Health America to access their resources to provide up to date mental health information for women and their families. C W UW will still conduct additional health focus groups in the upcoming months. We had a very successful group last month and look forward to hearing what Indy women have to say about their health and wellness needs. C W UW continues to look for volunteers and board members. If you're interested, contact CWUW at volunteers@cwuwonline.org Lastly, one of the 7 dimensions of w...

art by Kortez Sitting in a room full of women, chatting - no jealousy, no strife, no eye rollin ' nonsense. Beautiful. Women simply sharing their needs and wants to be healthy and happy. In the desire to help women, I want women to look at each other has advocates, kindred spirits, and simply sisters. At a time when we are raising our children alone, we are suffering from all sorts of health conditions, we need one another. We need to love each other. Personally, I try so very hard to love my sistas . My life's work is serving to women. I won't subscribe to "man sharing", I'm not gonna take ya man ( lawd ), I'm not gonna roll my eyes at you, I'm going to smile at you and try to love you. Why be jealous? Its refreshing to watch women from all ethnicities , socio -economic backgrounds, sit in a room and simply share and love each other. Makes me smile. I'm equally blessed to have so many men to be supportive of my journey. We need men. NEED. Yeah.....

GRINDING.... Daily. For the Kid, for US, for my future and for CWUW... GRINDING..... When I was unemployed, I grasped hold to the scripture, "Faith without works is dead" (along with Romans 8:28) and ran with it. I'm still running with it (to a fault) and it pays off. God will honor your hard work and diligence. Never give up ya'll. Keep your eye on HIM and let him open those doors and keep him in front of it all. We all have dreams andhopes but there are only a few who don't give up. I'm telling you to keep your eyes on the prize and the promise and the LOVE from God. We only stewards of the dream anyway. I can take no credit for CWUW but I'm very honored to be steward over the vision. Things are happening with CWUW that I had NOTHING to do with other than just being obedient. So let me first Honor and give some mad love to the big "G". God is Awesome. His love is powerful. Know you are loved. KNOW it. KNOW that all things work toge...

Kimora with Akoi and Ming....Business woman....mother... I know there is so many that can't stand Kimora Lee Simmons. I'm not one of them. I can see past the made for TV Diva Bs and I can see the business woman and leader. I had a conversation with a friend who use to be my assistant some years ago and who has come on board to help with CWUW. Last night, she smacked me around and asked where is my Kimora? What she was saying was that I would lay out the plan and the vision, provide some direction and then say, "Make it happen". I wouldn't worry about it happening but just had EVERY expectation that it will be done, in a timely manner, within the budget given, and completed professionally. Now, I'm so hands on in EVERYTHING. I actually told her that I'm concerned about Syd's open house. She looked at me like....wha? We're talking something that doesn't occur until May of 2009 and I'm already trying to plan it. She reminded me...

CWUW is my love, my other kid that takes up most of my time outside of mommyhood. This weekend as I worked on some program stuff, I was really rejuvenated. We've had some changes in the board that sort of through me off for a second but change is good. We're working on a research project that I'm excited about. I just hate going throught the IRB process. Its so slow or its just IUPUI. I'm starting to see how God is working this out. As I go through my own journey in dealing with my health (bulimia), CWUW progresses. As I move to live a more centered life, CWUW grows. I'll never want to go through what I did with Woman to Woman. I was so connected to the program that I couldn't separate myself from the program. I WAS W2W and when stuff started to crumble, I couldn't separate me from what was occurring (blessings to a fabulous co-worker who helped me through). I'm so thankful for W2W though. I LOVED what we were able to accomplish in HIV and with ...

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