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SOULFUL CONNECTIONs
Get inspired and expand your knowledge with Dr. Shelly Harrell and other contributors. Explore topics supporting a soulfulness perspective on healing, wellness, meditation, resilience, mental health, and social justice. Our focus is on the somatic, mental, emotional, relational, and sociopolitical liberation of Black, Indigenous, and People of Color.
Weekend Wisdom: Hope over Fear
May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears. -Nelson Mandela I think hope gets a bad rap sometimes. People confuse hope with...
Dr. Shelly Harrell
Jun 11, 20212 min read
Weekend Wisdom: Saying Yes
We have been raised to fear the yes in ourselves. -Audre Lorde Which inner response rises up most quickly and more naturally for you:...
Dr. Shelly Harrell
Jun 5, 20212 min read
Weekend Wisdom: The Healing Work of Forgiveness
Forgiveness sets the stage for a new act to begin. -Iyanla Vanzant Among the most challenging inner healing work to do is that of...
Dr. Shelly Harrell
May 30, 20212 min read
Weekend Wisdom: Self-Love and Self-Care
When you love yourself, you don't hurt people. -Sonia Sanchez There is a lot circulating in social media and online about “self-care” and...
Dr. Shelly Harrell
May 23, 20212 min read
Weekend Wisdom: Only Love
Only love can give us the power to reconcile, to redeem, the power to renew weary spirits and save lost souls. -bell hooks The...
Dr. Shelly Harrell
May 15, 20212 min read
Weekend Wisdom: Soul Rhythms
Rhythm is the soul of life. The whole universe revolves in rhythm. Everything and every human action revolves in rhythm. -Babatunde...
Dr. Shelly Harrell
May 1, 20211 min read
Weekend Wisdom: One Step
If you don't like the way the world is, change it. You have an obligation to change it. You just do it one step at a time. -Marian Wright...
Dr. Shelly Harrell
Apr 23, 20212 min read
Weekend Wisdom: On Changes and Being Changed
All that you touch, you change. All that you change, changes you. -Octavia Butler This is a really profound and humbling truth. It is...
Dr. Shelly Harrell
Apr 17, 20211 min read
Weekend Wisdom: Coming Home
I think you travel to search and you come back home to find yourself there. -Chimamanda Adichie The journey to find ourselves is often...
Dr. Shelly Harrell
Apr 10, 20211 min read
Weekend Wisdom: What We Are...Becoming
Children learn more from what you are than what you teach. -W.E.B. DuBois This piece of wisdom is a humbling message to anyone who is a...
Dr. Shelly Harrell
Apr 2, 20211 min read
Weekend Wisdom: Hibernation
Hibernation is a covert preparation for more overt action. -Ralph Ellison There is a lot of talk these days about the decolonizing...
Dr. Shelly Harrell
Mar 26, 20211 min read
Weekend Wisdom: Our Creativity
The possible demands most of us, demands our creativity, demands our imagination. -Grace Lee Boggs The context of this quote from Grace...
Dr. Shelly Harrell
Mar 19, 20211 min read
Weekend Wisdom: Walk Your Own Way
I have the nerve to walk on my own way, however hard, in my search for reality, rather than climb upon the rattling wagon of wishful...
Dr. Shelly Harrell
Mar 12, 20211 min read
Weekend Wisdom: All Things Are Possible
The difficult I'll do right now. The impossible will take a little while. -Billie Holiday Is anything really impossible? Is what we think...
Dr. Shelly Harrell
Mar 6, 20211 min read
Weekend Wisdom: Just Like Moons and Suns and Tides
Just like moons and like suns, with the certainty of tides, just like hopes springing high, still I'll rise. -Maya Angelou The wisdom of...
Dr. Shelly Harrell
Feb 26, 20211 min read
Weekend Wisdom: Know Who You Are
Once you know who you are, you don't have to worry anymore. -Nikki Giovanni When I selected this wisdom quote did not anticipate how much...
Dr. Shelly Harrell
Feb 19, 20213 min read
Weekend Wisdom: Claiming our Humanity
We can cancel the captivity of our soul and destroy the enslavement of our minds by refusing to compromise any of our human rights. -Adam...
Dr. Shelly Harrell
Feb 13, 20211 min read
Weekend Wisdom: Our Interconnected Freedom
None of us are free if one of us is chained, none of us are free. -Brenda Russell, Barry Mann, Cynthia Weil I have always loved this Ray...
Dr. Shelly Harrell
Feb 6, 20211 min read
Weekend Wisdom: Wisdom of the Heart
Stop, look, listen to you heart, hear what it's saying. -Linda Creed and Thomas Bell The wisdom of the heart sometimes gets a bad rap....
Dr. Shelly Harrell
Jan 30, 20211 min read
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