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  • Precious Community Helps Recovery From Trauma or Crisis

    Precious Community Helps Recovery From Trauma or Crisis

    Daily writing prompt
    What do you do to be involved in the community?
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    I am so grateful that I’ve been able to plug in with like-minded communities via online tools like zoom, Discord, Patreon, Facebook groups, YouTube live chats, and more.

    Community is precious, especially as you recover from trauma or crisis.

    ~ Coach Donna Marie

    One of the main groups that I’m consistently plugging in with uses our membership dues to support a black woman creator with a sabbatical grant. This group was founded by Stephanie Perry of Vaycarious. She already sent over $20,000 to the first grant recipient in 2022, along with smaller grants as scholarships for short retreats for creative black women who needed time to rest and refresh their creative juices.

    The way this group supports me is via daily/weekly co-working events in a private zoom video chat format. I helped to co-found these events which are sponsored by Stephanie Perry’s Vaycarious group and are led by the wonderful Dr. Jessica. I am grateful that I was able to teach them a system that helps us all get our work done more effectively, and we even now have incorporated exercise within this framework, too. I talked about it in a prior podcast episode, << click that link, if you’d like to listen or watch the show to learn more.

    What about you, how do you plug in with community and how does it help you?

    ~ Coach Donna Marie Johnson

    CoachDonnaMarie.com
  • Newsletter Invitation

    Newsletter Invitation

    If you didn’t notice, I don’t write much on this WordPress-based blog anymore. This is because I’ve fallen in love with the blogging community and platform at Medium. I am not trying to maintain multiple blogs anymore. So, if you’d like to join me over there, and if you’d like to receive my newsletter there, please click here to read my latest and subscribe to my newsletter.

    There are many blogging communities, however, I believe the reason why Medium has gained such a following is because they listen to their writers and keep making it a better experience for us. They make it easy to publish a newsletter. They empower us to monetize our content. And they include a robust social networking foundation with tagging of others and linking back to other content. You can also include audio and video. And for me, the clincher for using the paid version of Medium is the ability to listen to every article as I read via the Medium app or in my browser. I don’t know why, but as I’ve matured, I read much more effectively when I listen while I read… that’s a major key for helping me get through graduate school with honors.

    If you’d like to follow my Medium page it is: medium.com/@leadlikeaqueen

    I hope to connect with you over there, too.

    If you’d like to see my other social links, you can find them all on my one page profile at:

    CoachDonnaMarie.com

  • The Future of LeadLikeAQueen.biz Blog

    The Future of LeadLikeAQueen.biz Blog

    Photo by Mike Enerio on Unsplash

    NEW YEAR. NEW THANKS.

    I am grateful for the opportunities I’ve had to share via this WordPress blog. As you have noticed, my sharing shifted a lot last year because I found a new blogging home over on Medium. If you’d like to join me over there, here is the link:

    LeadLikeAQueen.medium.com

    Becoming a part of that expansive blogging community on Medium has expanded my readership and my writing in ways that were very unexpected and a huge blessing for me. So, I am shifting my blogging away from this WordPress blog to my medium blog. I hope you’ll join me over there, too.

    Happy New Year!

    Check out my latest article on how my perfectionism has gotten triggered by all the talk about new year’s resolutions and how I’ve learned to combat that old tendency.

    To read the full article:

    Use my friend link to access this article on medium – click here.

    PODCAST – HELPING YOU PLANT YOUR SEEDS OF TRANSFORMATION

    In addition to expanding my blogging during 2022, I also completed season 3 of the Plant Your Seeds of Transformation podcast show via youtube and most major podcast platforms, including Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, and many more. If you’d like to see who our guests were for season 3, you can check them out at PlantYourSeeds.show/guests, they included leaders who are black women or allies of black women. Our main topic of discussion for 2023 was centered around understanding what perfectionism can look like so you can keep it from stealing your life and love.

    On A Personal Note

    On a personal note, I’ve learned much more about myself and my community within the past 3 months than in a very long time because of the pressure/friction placed on me due to family crises and traumas. If you follow my personal Instagram reels, you’ll already know what happened. I am sharing here just briefly to encourage you to know that you don’t have to give up everything during a crisis, but it is ok for you to slow down, or pause, and take stock of things.

    God bless you and your 2023. May you get and stay free in all areas where you need that, including staying free from perfectionism and its toxic impacts.

  • How Can A Black Woman Bounce Back Better After the Bad of Life Happening?

    link.medium.com/eYVKeywQytb

    This is an article I wrote on my medium blog as part of my podcast community. If you choose to check it out, let me know your answers to the questions I shared over on Medium.