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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.
Dr. Shelly Harrell
Nov 17, 20212 min read
Wednesday Wisdom: Go Within
Go within everyday and find the inner strength so the world will not blow your candle out. -Katherine Dunham So, I took a little break...
Dr. Shelly Harrell
Oct 24, 20212 min read
Weekend Wisdom: Inner Security
Security is not an address. It's something you carry with you wherever you go. -Roz Ryan Feeling safe, secure, and protected is a basic...
Dr. Shelly Harrell
Oct 17, 20212 min read
Weekend Wisdom: Cultivate Courage
You get in life what you have the courage to ask for. -Oprah Winfrey What do you have the courage to ask for? to claim? to speak? to...
Dr. Shelly Harrell
Oct 10, 20212 min read
Weekend Wisdom: Unbreakable
And if they hadn't tried to break me down, I wouldn't know that I'm unbreakable. -Gabourey Sidibe Do you know that there is a place...
Dr. Shelly Harrell
Oct 2, 20212 min read
Weekend Wisdom: What We Control, What We Decide
You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them. -Maya Angelou The core message of so...
Dr. Shelly Harrell
Sep 26, 20212 min read
Weekend Wisdom: Committed Life
All of us gave to be committed to a life beyond our own aspirations. -Bernice King I've been pondering "the greater good" a lot lately. A...
Dr. Shelly Harrell
Sep 19, 20212 min read
Weekend Wisdom: When We Unite
When spiders unite they can tie down a lion. -African Proverb Participating in collective action is a powerful experience. The feeling of...
Dr. Shelly Harrell
Sep 12, 20212 min read
Weekend Wisdom: Wake up
Wake up. The hour has come to be more responsible. Change this world by starting with yourself. -Betty Shabazz WAKE UP is a powerful and...
Dr. Shelly Harrell
Sep 5, 20212 min read
Weekend Wisdom: Ubuntu, Our Interconnectedness
The fundamental law of human beings is interdependence. A person is a person through other persons. -Bishop Desmond Tutu Feeling the...
Dr. Shelly Harrell
Aug 29, 20213 min read
Weekend Wisdom: Reflecting on Humility
You don't want modesty, you want humility. Humility comes from inside out. -Maya Angelou What is the energy of humility really about?...
Dr. Shelly Harrell
Aug 21, 20211 min read
Weekend Wisdom: Being of Service
Service is the rent we pay for the privilege of living on this earth. -Shirley Chisholm Sometime the pain of the world feels particularly...
Dr. Shelly Harrell
Aug 15, 20212 min read
Weekend Wisdom: Your Energy
Energy is the essence of life. Everyday you decide how you're going to use it. -Oprah Winfrey As I continue to accumulate life experience...
Dr. Shelly Harrell
Aug 8, 20212 min read
Weekend Wisdom: Respect Yourself
Respect yourself and you will get it back. -African Proverb Of course, since choosing this wisdom quote I can’t get the classic Staples...
Dr. Shelly Harrell
Aug 1, 20212 min read
Weekend Wisdom: Truest Integrity
One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised. -Chinua Achebe Living in our integrity is a wellness...
Dr. Shelly Harrell
Jul 25, 20212 min read
Weekend Wisdom: Head and Heart
To be effective in human relations requires both skill and "feel"; it demands the use of head and heart. -Howard Thurman What does...
Dr. Shelly Harrell
Jul 17, 20212 min read
Weekend Wisdom: In Celebration of Friendship
A friend is someone you share the path with. -African Proverb I am writing this reflection in celebration of friendship! During the last...
Dr. Shelly Harrell
Jul 10, 20212 min read
Weekend Wisdom: When I Think of Home
Perhaps home is not a place, but simply an irrevocable condition. -James Baldwin HOME. This is one of those powerful words with much...
Dr. Shelly Harrell
Jul 3, 20212 min read
Weekend Wisdom: Our Soulful Joy
Happiness is not perfected until it is shared. -African Proverb In my Year of Wisdom and Healing program, we just wrapped up our month on...
Dr. Shelly Harrell
Jun 26, 20212 min read
Weekend Wisdom: The Inner Spark
So let us reach for the world that ought to be -- that spark of the divine that still stirs within each of our souls. -Barack Obama It is...
Dr. Shelly Harrell
Jun 18, 20212 min read
Weekend Wisdom: Claiming Freedom
Freeing yourself was one thing, claiming ownership of that freed self was another. -Toni Morrison Freedom. Today I am in deep reflection...
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