REPAIR
May 5, 2026
RENEW
May 12, 2026
Every Saturday, we gather here - not as experts or guides, but as fellow journeyers finding our way through. The Saturday 7 is our weekly ritual: one word, seven steps, and a reminder that healing happens one moment at a time. Pull up a chair. You belong here. Let's dive in!
This Weeks Focus
REPAIR
The wound is the place where the Light enters you.
- Rumi, Sufi poet & mystic
You don't have to be perfect to be worthy of repair. Repair is not for the broken - it is for the brave.
- Iyanla Vanzant, author & spiritual teacherRing the bells that still can ring. Forget your perfect offering. There is a crack in everything - that's how the light gets in.
- Leonard Cohen, poet & songwriter
I am worthy of being repaired, tended to, and made whole - starting today.
I give myself permission to gently mend what has been broken without shame or rush.
Every act of repair I take is an act of love, and I am deeply deserving of my own love.
When you're ready, pour something warm and take your time with this week's Tuesday Talk. The full story is waiting for you - go at your own pace.
Read: Tuesday Talk
Now it's your turn. Your journal is waiting and there are no right answers here - just you, the page, and whatever needs to come out. Write freely and honestly, without editing yourself.
- What part of yourself - a dream, a boundary, a belief in your own worth - has been waiting the longest for your attention? What has kept you from giving it that care?
- Think about a wound you have been carrying quietly. Write honestly about what it felt like when it happened. What does it need from you now that it did not get then?
- Imagine yourself one year from now, having done the steady work of repair. What is she no longer carrying? Write her a letter from where you stand today.
- What is one relationship - with a person, with your body, with your faith - that you are ready to begin repairing? What is the very first step that feels possible this week?
- List three qualities or strengths in yourself that survived everything you have been through. Write a genuine thank-you to yourself for each one.
Enjoy all of the great music on H.E.R. Jukebox
Sis, I need you to stop and give yourself credit - because this week you chose repair, and that is not a small thing. You looked honestly at what needed tending, you showed up for yourself, and you kept going. That is courage. That is the work. And the most beautiful version of your life is being built right now, one gold seam at a time. Keep going.
BOOKS
Radical Acceptance - Tara Brach
A compassionate guide to releasing the inner stories of unworthiness that make repair feel impossible - grounded in both psychology and spiritual practice.
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The Body Keeps the Score - Bessel van der Kolk, M.D.
Essential reading for understanding why true repair must include the body - and how to reach the parts of us that words alone cannot always access.
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In the Meantime: Finding Yourself and the Love You Want - Iyanla Vanzant
Written for women doing interior work between one chapter and the next - honest, spirit-led guidance on repairing the relationship you have with yourself first.
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PODCASTS
"Iyanla Vanzant: How to Repair Your Life from the Inside Out"
SuperSoul Conversations · Oprah Winfrey Network
Warm and deeply personal - Iyanla speaks directly to the interior work of healing and reclaiming yourself after loss and life upheaval.
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"You Are Not Broken - You Are Becoming"
Therapy for Black Girls · Dr. Joy Harden Bradford
Speaks directly to Black women navigating emotional repair, offering culturally grounded language for self-worth, grief, and the courage to rebuild.
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"The Courage to Be Whole"
On Being with Krista Tippett
Unhurried, thoughtful conversations with healers and thinkers that treat repair as a spiritual and philosophical practice - not just an emotional checkbox.
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NEXT Weeks Focus
RENEW
Repair tends to what is broken - Renew invites us to breathe fresh life into who we are becoming on the other side of that work. Head over to embracingherlife.com, hit the Send Voicemail button, and leave your first name and a quick thought on what Renew means to you right now. Be sure to include your first name.*or future podcast episodes... Respectfully of course!