The Dangers of Overworking: Creating Margin for the Messiah

You weren't meant to be on the go 24/7. The hustle culture may glorify busyness, but it often leads to burnout and diminished work quality. Embracing rest is essential for your spiritual health. Here are three reasons why creating space for God is crucial: avoiding burnout, enhancing work quality, and focusing on your inner growth rather than just productivity. Remember, it’s about who you’re becoming, not just what you’re achieving. If you’re struggling to prioritize rest, I’m here to help. Let’s create a personalized plan to ensure you're thriving spiritually while being productive.

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How Competition and Comparison Intensify the Pressure to Code-Switch

Code-switching involves adapting one's language or communication style to fit into different social or cultural contexts, often driven by external pressures to conform. While this can be a useful skill, in competitive environments, it can lead to an exhausting and endless pursuit of an identity that isn't authentic. Meet Maria, a young professional who learns the hard way that constantly changing herself to meet corporate expectations leaves her feeling stressed and disconnected from her true self. Here are some strategies to help you reflect, identify, showcase, and empower your authentic self, breaking free from the pressure to conform.

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TEdra Knox
Navigating Hardened Hearts: Insights, Impacts, and Ways Forward

Embark on a journey of healing and restoration with us as we navigate Hardened Hearts: Insights, Impacts, and Ways Forward. Whether you've felt the sting of hard-heartedness or witnessed its effects, this blog is for you. Dive deep into understanding the emotional toll, strained relationships, and spiritual impediments caused by hardened hearts. Discover the benefits of release and learn three essential steps to healing: acknowledgment, authenticity, and connection.

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The Symphony Within: Discovering the Intrinsic Harmonies

Embarking on a journey of self-discovery: Unveiling the Symphony Within 🎶✨ Embrace the new year with a focus on nurturing your innermost self through faith, community, heart and soul care. Dive into intentional practices like breathing, journaling, and engaging with nature, and save the date for 'A REIGN ABOVE,' a transformative virtual event empowering Christian women in Corporate America. Let's create harmonious music amid life's chaos 🌟🎵 #

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Are You Willing To Take The Steps?

He saw the vision when I couldn't! He saw the staircase when I couldn't even think about the first step. In the end and beginning of our vacation, I apologized for not being able to see the entire vision and thanked him for a much-needed vacation for us both.

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The Breaking Produces The Blessing

For this milestone birthday, TEdra candidly shares her journey and reflections. She shares her resolve to choose faith over feelings to select the anointing of God to help her overcome anxieties. Her breaking has produced God's blessings in her life. Many events leading up to her birthday, many plans changed, and the changes were so frequent and drastic that she had to research the meaning of 30, so here it is!

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A Letter To The Graduates

As I scroll down my timeline and see all the happy faces, flawless make -up, fresh haircuts and the variety of degrees and graduates. I cannot help but smile and scream my inner "yaaaassss." As I relive my graduations, knowing and understanding the weight lifted off your shoulder is a great feeling.

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C.R.O.W.N.E.D

Excerpt: On October 6, 2017, I had the opportunity to be the speaker at an event I hold near and dear to my heart. That event was Miss Paul Quinn College Royalty Tea. I did not know what to speak and prayed that God gave me the right words to say. As I pondered what words to say, the word C.R.O.W.N.E.D was revealed to me. The acronym represented the things that I learned while I was a student at Paul Quinn College, during my reign as Miss Paul Quinn College and those things still serve me well to this day.

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The Requirements for Refining

The refining process requires us to be great stewards of our time, talent, and treasures, and we must manage this process with the partnership. I am dropping jewels on 4R's that will help you help you on this CROWNED Life Journey.

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STOP Compromising Your CROWN

Many times we compromise our crown in corporate spaces when negotiating products and services. #OnTheBlog I am dropping jewels on how to stop comprising your crown. Comprising your crown isn't conducive to the calling that God has on your life, it dismantles the destiny that God has for you.

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No More Sitting On The Sidelines

We can no longer afford to sit on the sideline when it comes to who we are. We are the Kingsskid. We are God's chosen people, and the world is watching how God's children will handle crises, frustration, and confusion. #OnTheBlog I am dropping jewels on how to stop being a sideline saint and how to become a kingdom agenda pusher.

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What's Stopping You From Experiencing God's Word?

Listennnnnnnnnnnnnnnn... I get it sometimes it seems like there are not enough hours in the day however, #ontheblog I am dropping jewels that may be preventing you from experiencing God's word; reading God's word should be a transforming experience, not a transactional one.

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When we learn to embrace this experience, we can walk in freedom, clarity and ultimately live the crowned life

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You're Defining; God Is Refining

I remember the struggle; I wanted to achieve specific goals by a particular age, and I had a wish list of how I wanted my life to be. The struggle was between what I desired and what God had already determined. When I stopped fighting and started believing, the battle was over, and my walk with God became much more serene.

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Divinely Refined

If you say that someone is refined, you mean that they are very polite and have good manners and good taste. ... refined and well-dressed ladies. Synonyms: cultured, civil, polished, tasteful More Synonyms of refined.”

Reading the above statement prompted the title of this blog, with a heavy emphasis on the divinely because I genuinely want to push the fact that living the CROWNED Life and being Refined is not about the outside but what’s true on the inside.

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