Spread Your WINGS…

• Before a butterfly emerges from the cocoon, there is a struggle.  The more difficult the struggle, the more beautiful the wings.

• A butterfly denotes “persistence” and “tenacity” — both are needed to emerge from spiritual, emotional, and physical struggles intact — and stronger than before.

• Thus, our message is this:  Without the struggle, there are no wings!

This is why the entire premise of all that we do centers around storytelling.  When women share their stories, generations can be healed.

So — be encouraged and know that as your journey continues, you do not walk it alone.  That which was meant to “break” you will often “bend” you in the direction that you were meant to go — if you allow God to lead you through it.

Blessings…

The Fly-Chicks, Inc. Team

Hidden Beauty: Part One of a True Story

As a child I grew up in a Christian home where my mom encouraged me and told me that I was beautiful, but I did not believe I was truly beautiful until I was in college.   I thought from my peers that beauty only came with long hair and fair skin. My relaxed, shoulder length hair and peanut-butter brown skin did not meet the mark as far as I was concerned.

I had many friends, but I always compared myself to them and always felt inadequate to their beauty. They always got attention from guys and I often did not. I developed early physically and felt that I was always thicker than my friends and wore a bra far earlier than they even knew what a bra was! My low self esteem progressed on into middle school. I began to gain attention from guys for my body and I thought this made me acceptable in their eyes. I wanted my clothes tighter and wore my hair straight and found my worth in how guys viewed my body.

This made me feel great, even though … Continue Reading

You Are So Much More

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“.. your body is not a ride at an amusement park for people to get on and then get off and leave.

You are so much more than that…”

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