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Decided to take a 2 am bath because I’m grateful for our miracle utilities.
Our power, water & gas were supposed to all have been shut off weeks to a month ago.
Our mortgage is supposed to be in foreclosure.
The universe has been holding everything off for us. Is it because we’ve been putting in the work internally AND externally?
Regardless of the case, I’m grateful and allowing myself a moment to curate a vibe for myself. This is probably the 3rd BATH I’ve taken in this house since buying it in 2013.
The funny part of this was that little voice in the back of my hwad saying “men don’t…” gtfoh
#selfcareformen #selfcare #bathtime #bathtok #selfloveformen
Our power, water & gas were supposed to all have been shut off weeks to a month ago.
Our mortgage is supposed to be in foreclosure.
The universe has been holding everything off for us. Is it because we’ve been putting in the work internally AND externally?
Regardless of the case, I’m grateful and allowing myself a moment to curate a vibe for myself. This is probably the 3rd BATH I’ve taken in this house since buying it in 2013.
The funny part of this was that little voice in the back of my hwad saying “men don’t…” gtfoh
#selfcareformen #selfcare #bathtime #bathtok #selfloveformen
Replying to @Onboard60-New Tech-Old TikTok PARDON THE POOPY MIC! 😂 The Artist’s Way by Julia Caneron has been helping create such a transformational experience for @Onboard60-New Tech-Old TikTok @Yani & I. We’re each so excited about and surprised at how similar our results are even though we’re all approaching the book differently.
Come share your experience or learn anout the book with us. Links are on the @🏡🌊🪞 HFR 🏡🌊🪞 website. Comment or DM if uou need the link.
#theartistsway #theartistswaychallenge #morningpages #selfhelpbooks #juliacameron #artistcommunity #artcommunity
Come share your experience or learn anout the book with us. Links are on the @🏡🌊🪞 HFR 🏡🌊🪞 website. Comment or DM if uou need the link.
#theartistsway #theartistswaychallenge #morningpages #selfhelpbooks #juliacameron #artistcommunity #artcommunity
A verse & beat from 1998 when I went by the name “Blackie Chan” (aka Black Chan)
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I’d changed my name from Short Axe after having my first major mental breakdown and leaving Tha Beggas (aka The Beggaz / the Begga Clan) in 1997. We made what we called “Martial Music” back then and it was ingrained in my soul.
After leaving, I needed a new identity but I was still very attached to what I’d learned and loved from the crew founded by my most impactful mentor in music and subsequently, martial arts, Father Lord (aka “Wu Chi” 🙏🏾) who was taken from us by a drunk driver earlier that same year. I didn’t realize until recently how much I broke down over the months after that, largely because I blamed myself for his passing.
I often wonder what my story would have been if I was mentally healthy back then. The bars and beats showed promise but my belief in myself was nearly nil. That’s one of the reasons I work so hard to encourage and support others through @🏡🌊🪞 HFR 🏡🌊🪞 with my miracle wife @Yani . Shit. I was doing it back then because this song also featured my cousin who I was introducing to rhyming on a mic.
Too many of us don’t realize how much potential power we have within. Too many of us don’t have supportive friends and family to build us up when we need it so we can find out. Without realizing it, a huge part of my life’s mission has been supporting artists SINCE the 90s.
🙏🏾 @deMond dUshawn for the reminder &
encouraging words. Your support since @GRYSKLL day 1 has been unexplainably critical to me becoming who I am as I walk this path to reinvention through introspection, accountability and most of all love. Love for people and art.
Because of you, I dropped my favorite bucket list item, ATD.
“A Tension Deficit” debut think piece sold with limited edition commemorative fine art including a giant one of a kind piece available only on our website. Get your piece packaged with the DELUXE EP now. DM or comment for the link
#mondaymotivation #mondaymusic #behindthemusic #unsung #motivationmonday #martialmusic #martialarts
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I’d changed my name from Short Axe after having my first major mental breakdown and leaving Tha Beggas (aka The Beggaz / the Begga Clan) in 1997. We made what we called “Martial Music” back then and it was ingrained in my soul.
After leaving, I needed a new identity but I was still very attached to what I’d learned and loved from the crew founded by my most impactful mentor in music and subsequently, martial arts, Father Lord (aka “Wu Chi” 🙏🏾) who was taken from us by a drunk driver earlier that same year. I didn’t realize until recently how much I broke down over the months after that, largely because I blamed myself for his passing.
I often wonder what my story would have been if I was mentally healthy back then. The bars and beats showed promise but my belief in myself was nearly nil. That’s one of the reasons I work so hard to encourage and support others through @🏡🌊🪞 HFR 🏡🌊🪞 with my miracle wife @Yani . Shit. I was doing it back then because this song also featured my cousin who I was introducing to rhyming on a mic.
Too many of us don’t realize how much potential power we have within. Too many of us don’t have supportive friends and family to build us up when we need it so we can find out. Without realizing it, a huge part of my life’s mission has been supporting artists SINCE the 90s.
🙏🏾 @deMond dUshawn for the reminder &
encouraging words. Your support since @GRYSKLL day 1 has been unexplainably critical to me becoming who I am as I walk this path to reinvention through introspection, accountability and most of all love. Love for people and art.
Because of you, I dropped my favorite bucket list item, ATD.
“A Tension Deficit” debut think piece sold with limited edition commemorative fine art including a giant one of a kind piece available only on our website. Get your piece packaged with the DELUXE EP now. DM or comment for the link
#mondaymotivation #mondaymusic #behindthemusic #unsung #motivationmonday #martialmusic #martialarts
Family! @Yani & I are now hosting weekly spaces with @Onboard60 Futurist Counseling .
Come join us and share either your own personal experience with the Artist's Way or your unique journey within the arts. It's a safe space to share your best and your hurts of your creative journey.
You can join us Mondays @ 1pm est on 🐦 (X) or on zoom.
The link is on the homepage of the @🏡🌊🪞 HFR 🏡🌊🪞 website. We hope to hear from you!
In the meantkme, how are you ACTUALLY doing? We want to know and support you.
Comment below or DM us
#houseoffluidreflections #Onboard60 #theartistsway #theartistswaychallenge #morningpages
Come join us and share either your own personal experience with the Artist's Way or your unique journey within the arts. It's a safe space to share your best and your hurts of your creative journey.
You can join us Mondays @ 1pm est on 🐦 (X) or on zoom.
The link is on the homepage of the @🏡🌊🪞 HFR 🏡🌊🪞 website. We hope to hear from you!
In the meantkme, how are you ACTUALLY doing? We want to know and support you.
Comment below or DM us
#houseoffluidreflections #Onboard60 #theartistsway #theartistswaychallenge #morningpages
So things got hectic in July and we didn’t get to dive into and release more of the incredibly fulfilling conversation we had with one of the roots of GRYSKLL, @egreen965 .
5 out of the original 6 GRYSKLL founders met through Erv’s podcast with King Killa & Curt G, @hiphopdigestshow.
We also grew closer through another podcast Erv cohosted with @cookbookthepr @Nestothebestyo @Kingductor and Erv’s son Adonis of @247 Live Culture who just premiered the film, which we’re all excited about named “LA Undercover”. The hosts of Felipe’s Garage are all continuing to create incredible paths for themselves and you should tap in with each of them along with The Hip Hop Digest Show.
I also found it funny that as I was editing this snippet, we have a mention of The Expendables, which happens to be dropping a new episode in the series today.
#gryskll #felipesgarage #hiphopdigestshow #theexpendables4 #expendables4 #expendables #laundercover
5 out of the original 6 GRYSKLL founders met through Erv’s podcast with King Killa & Curt G, @hiphopdigestshow.
We also grew closer through another podcast Erv cohosted with @cookbookthepr @Nestothebestyo @Kingductor and Erv’s son Adonis of @247 Live Culture who just premiered the film, which we’re all excited about named “LA Undercover”. The hosts of Felipe’s Garage are all continuing to create incredible paths for themselves and you should tap in with each of them along with The Hip Hop Digest Show.
I also found it funny that as I was editing this snippet, we have a mention of The Expendables, which happens to be dropping a new episode in the series today.
#gryskll #felipesgarage #hiphopdigestshow #theexpendables4 #expendables4 #expendables #laundercover
How long did it take you to figure out what to focus on and how to go about it? We’re all much closer to focusing solely on building what feels right in our souls. Subscribe on the @🏡🌊🪞 HFR 🏡🌊🪞 & @GRYSKLL for some special updates coming soon. Big changes in both spaces that I’m excited to share.
#gryskll #houseoffluidreflections #arttherapy #musictherapy #artistcommunity
#gryskll #houseoffluidreflections #arttherapy #musictherapy #artistcommunity
Want to get a stringer connection to your creative self? The Artist’s Way is one of the tools @Yani found that’s been helping us tremendously.
Thanks to @Onboard60 Futurist Counseling we get to discuss what we’re learning and how were evolving thanks to the book. Being able to relate and compare notes has made it much more….more.
Whether you’re reading the book or not, come hang out for some engaging conversations on a spiritual parh to higher creativity.
#theartistsway #theartistswaychallenge #morningpagesjournal #morningpagesjournalinghealingtrauma #morningpage
Thanks to @Onboard60 Futurist Counseling we get to discuss what we’re learning and how were evolving thanks to the book. Being able to relate and compare notes has made it much more….more.
Whether you’re reading the book or not, come hang out for some engaging conversations on a spiritual parh to higher creativity.
#theartistsway #theartistswaychallenge #morningpagesjournal #morningpagesjournalinghealingtrauma #morningpage
”She Rose”
I’ve known a LOT of strong women and have immensely appreciated what I’ve learned from them in my time. My wife, in particular, has probably taught me more than any other aside from my mother.
@Yani has helped me understand the degrees to which patriarchy has been programmed into us. That’s a lesson I was extremely resistant to when it came to how women present themselves in public because of what I allowed other men around my age to teach me when I was young.
I learned to look at women more like objects (and subconsciously as property) than fully equal entities with a different power set than those we men are trained to believe are “more” in some sense. Because of brawn and broken connections to our spiritual and emotional centers, many of us lose sight of the strengths women have that actually make us more powerful when we connect and combine through love.
I’m rewiring & rewriting my mindset because I was sickened by society and my egos wouldn’t allow me to see that. Our egos try to protect us from the insecurities of the unknown and mine was secretly securing what I thought was my stability.
Yani introduced me to @Dr Joe Dispenza who has some powerful ideas about how memories work in “Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself” and I can’t wait to explore them deeper. You’ll see how in something we’re developing as a new offering from @🏡🌊🪞 HFR 🏡🌊🪞 .
Subscribe for free on our website to find out first and to receive other news & updates.
Also, don’t forget to book a session with the woman who taught me how to work this camera right, Yani. She’s hosting special Self Love Photography Experiences for the next month. You can book with just her behind the shutter and you can also add me on BTS as a second shooter if you’d like. Comment below or DM for booking info.
Thank you again Ashiee for booking with Yani yesterday!🙏🏾
#drjoedispenza #breakingthehabitofbeingyourself #patriarchy #menarefrommarswomenarefromvenus #blacklove #artcouple #artisticphotography #dmvphotographer #dmvphotographers #dmvphotography #dmvartists #dmvart #blackgirlmagic #blackwomenrock #blackwomen #selflove #selflovephotography
I’ve known a LOT of strong women and have immensely appreciated what I’ve learned from them in my time. My wife, in particular, has probably taught me more than any other aside from my mother.
@Yani has helped me understand the degrees to which patriarchy has been programmed into us. That’s a lesson I was extremely resistant to when it came to how women present themselves in public because of what I allowed other men around my age to teach me when I was young.
I learned to look at women more like objects (and subconsciously as property) than fully equal entities with a different power set than those we men are trained to believe are “more” in some sense. Because of brawn and broken connections to our spiritual and emotional centers, many of us lose sight of the strengths women have that actually make us more powerful when we connect and combine through love.
I’m rewiring & rewriting my mindset because I was sickened by society and my egos wouldn’t allow me to see that. Our egos try to protect us from the insecurities of the unknown and mine was secretly securing what I thought was my stability.
Yani introduced me to @Dr Joe Dispenza who has some powerful ideas about how memories work in “Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself” and I can’t wait to explore them deeper. You’ll see how in something we’re developing as a new offering from @🏡🌊🪞 HFR 🏡🌊🪞 .
Subscribe for free on our website to find out first and to receive other news & updates.
Also, don’t forget to book a session with the woman who taught me how to work this camera right, Yani. She’s hosting special Self Love Photography Experiences for the next month. You can book with just her behind the shutter and you can also add me on BTS as a second shooter if you’d like. Comment below or DM for booking info.
Thank you again Ashiee for booking with Yani yesterday!🙏🏾
#drjoedispenza #breakingthehabitofbeingyourself #patriarchy #menarefrommarswomenarefromvenus #blacklove #artcouple #artisticphotography #dmvphotographer #dmvphotographers #dmvphotography #dmvartists #dmvart #blackgirlmagic #blackwomenrock #blackwomen #selflove #selflovephotography
You eating right? We’ve been working on our diets as much as we’ve been working on building @🏡🌊🪞 HFR 🏡🌊🪞 & @GRYSKLL .
I want to make AND film @Yani ’s freestyle stuffed peppers again. We made these on a little lover’s getaway to Annapolis, MD in the spring of 2022.
More of this coming with something extra special that HFR is cooking up on the creative wellness tip. Subscribe on our website for updates.
Also, don’t forget:
“A Tension Deficit” debut think piece sold with limited edition commemorative fine art including a giant one of a kind piece available only on our website. Get your piece packaged with the DELUXE EP now. Check the comments for the L Y N C
#plantbasedmealprep #plantbasedfoodideas #healthyfoodinspo #foodporn #blackfoodiefinder
I want to make AND film @Yani ’s freestyle stuffed peppers again. We made these on a little lover’s getaway to Annapolis, MD in the spring of 2022.
More of this coming with something extra special that HFR is cooking up on the creative wellness tip. Subscribe on our website for updates.
Also, don’t forget:
“A Tension Deficit” debut think piece sold with limited edition commemorative fine art including a giant one of a kind piece available only on our website. Get your piece packaged with the DELUXE EP now. Check the comments for the L Y N C
#plantbasedmealprep #plantbasedfoodideas #healthyfoodinspo #foodporn #blackfoodiefinder
I’m talking to myself as much as I am to you. We brush things off all the time and that causes damage internally and in our families and communities. We’ve taken on other people’s definitions of what a man should be and rarely bother to define it for ourselves without the preprogrammed, often patriarchal views. Especially the ones that are the result of what massa put on our black men’s ancestors here in America and in other lands that have been colonized.
My work to fix this within and rewire myself has been clumsy, ugly and challenging af. But I’m not quitting. It’s a journey with no specific destination.
#menshealth #mensmentalhealth #blackmentalhealth #realman #realmen
My work to fix this within and rewire myself has been clumsy, ugly and challenging af. But I’m not quitting. It’s a journey with no specific destination.
#menshealth #mensmentalhealth #blackmentalhealth #realman #realmen
the god conversation
I’m not interested in debating the tooic of god, religion, magic, scuence or whatever but I am enjoying looking at the concept from new and different angles that I’d never realized were possible before.
We each have our own “realities” so to speak. Our own independent images of what god is. I used to pass judgement on perspectives that didn’t align with my own and it saddens me to think iI may have disrespected somekne else’s by debating passionately about what were “facts” in my reality.
I’m currently enjoying new perspectives offered by The Artist’s Way and Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself as Yani is relaying parts of the book to me in conversation. All of this is part of an exercise I’ve been calling reinterrogating my reality. I’ve been looking for pre-programming and subconsciously planted ideals and beliefs within myself along with trauma based programming. I’m rewiring A LOT and coming across the god conversation with myself again was unexpected. I thought I’d resolved what that word meant to me.
Again, not interested in debates but open to hearing your personal vision or journey in your own internal god conversations.
#godconversations #godconversation #gods #theartistsway #breakingthehabitofbeingyourself
I’m not interested in debating the tooic of god, religion, magic, scuence or whatever but I am enjoying looking at the concept from new and different angles that I’d never realized were possible before.
We each have our own “realities” so to speak. Our own independent images of what god is. I used to pass judgement on perspectives that didn’t align with my own and it saddens me to think iI may have disrespected somekne else’s by debating passionately about what were “facts” in my reality.
I’m currently enjoying new perspectives offered by The Artist’s Way and Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself as Yani is relaying parts of the book to me in conversation. All of this is part of an exercise I’ve been calling reinterrogating my reality. I’ve been looking for pre-programming and subconsciously planted ideals and beliefs within myself along with trauma based programming. I’m rewiring A LOT and coming across the god conversation with myself again was unexpected. I thought I’d resolved what that word meant to me.
Again, not interested in debates but open to hearing your personal vision or journey in your own internal god conversations.
#godconversations #godconversation #gods #theartistsway #breakingthehabitofbeingyourself
What do you think about Diddy giving Bad Boy artists their publishing back? Is it promo for his new album? Is it noble? Does he have some other ulterior motive? What do you think about @markkcurry’s position?
I’m learning about music business concepts like this so @gryskllthecrew can turn these concepts into lessons for artists interested in learning to make money from their music. Monetization and commoditization of art is also something I’m learning to help artists through @houseoffluidreflections.
We need some pros like @lamont_graves @larussell @curtissking to chime in so we can spread the LOVE
#diddy #musicbusinesstips #musicbusiness101 #musicbusinessadvice #pdiddy
I’m learning about music business concepts like this so @gryskllthecrew can turn these concepts into lessons for artists interested in learning to make money from their music. Monetization and commoditization of art is also something I’m learning to help artists through @houseoffluidreflections.
We need some pros like @lamont_graves @larussell @curtissking to chime in so we can spread the LOVE
#diddy #musicbusinesstips #musicbusiness101 #musicbusinessadvice #pdiddy
Happy Friday. 2023 is my first year tasting Turkish Delight. Years ago I was severely depressed and ready to be done with this dimension so this might have been something else back then. I wasn’t addicted but I was absolutely an alcoholic and didn’t care much for or about myself. I was hoping to speed along my journey here on earth. Glad I can look back and laugh.
That’s a big part of the reason I do my best to light the path for anyone else who may walk it. Things don’t have to stay dark. I’m grateful for a million things and hopeful that you are (or will be soon).
“A Tension Deficit” debut think piece sold with limited edition commemorative fine art including a giant one of a kind piece available only on the GRYSKLL website. Get your piece packaged with the DELUXE EP now on Bandcamp exclusively.
#whitelines #turkishdelight #addictionrecovery #blackmentalhealth #depressionhelp
That’s a big part of the reason I do my best to light the path for anyone else who may walk it. Things don’t have to stay dark. I’m grateful for a million things and hopeful that you are (or will be soon).
“A Tension Deficit” debut think piece sold with limited edition commemorative fine art including a giant one of a kind piece available only on the GRYSKLL website. Get your piece packaged with the DELUXE EP now on Bandcamp exclusively.
#whitelines #turkishdelight #addictionrecovery #blackmentalhealth #depressionhelp