Summer Reading

I finished reading the Steve Harvey joint a few weeks ago and I have to say I loved it.  Not all of it spoke to me (as a married woman) so i skipped to the stuff that applied.  I loved it because it gives an honest insight into the mans thought process.  Sometimes we as women feel like if we stroke a mans ego, we are giving up our power at times, but honestly the core of women and men will never change.  Women are emotional creatures and men are more logical.  Having been married 14 years now, I always look for new ways to recreate or rejuvenate parts of my relationship because lets face it, when children and other responsibilities come along, the romance goes out the window.  Steve gives easy, no nonsense solutions to every day problems like miscommunication, arguments, and how to get time to self for both.  I encourage the read.

My current read is even more amazing...Sacred Pampering Principles by Debrah Gandy...this is just what the Creator ordered for me.  The message is that African-American women MUST start learning to pamper ourselves in order to truly take care of others around us.  What I love is that it breaks down the real meaning of pampering and eliminates the illusions of what we have created it to be.  I have suffered many years not doing this out of guilt and simply because it is the picture my mother, grandmothers, and aunts painted for me too.  The black woman's motto: we may not do what we want to do, but we always do what we have to do.