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Journal Entry #10 | The Lie We Keep Showing Up For | Work, Power, and Silence
We don’t always stay because we believe in the work. Sometimes we stay because leaving feels riskier than silence. In this journal entry, I reflect on the quiet agreements we make with systems of power, the emotional cost of endurance,… Continue reading
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Healthcare, a Joke? | When Care Stops Feeling Safe to Need | Living Magic with Juju
What happens when needing care no longer feels safe? When access depends on paperwork, timing, tone, money, and how well you can explain your pain while exhausted? Healthcare, a Joke? explores the quiet ways systems fail people who are too… Continue reading
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The Economy and How It Affects Us All | Circle of Candor | Living Magic with Juju 🦋
The economy isn’t some distant system that only economists or politicians need to worry about. It shows up in our grocery carts, our rent payments, our medical bills, and the quiet calculations we make before saying yes to anything extra.… Continue reading
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The School System: Benefit or Joke? | Circle of Candor | Living Magic with Juju
We’re told school prepares us for the world. But no one talks about what it quietly teaches us to endure. This isn’t an attack on education or the people inside it. It’s a reflection on the systems we grew up… Continue reading
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The Vocabulary We Lost — Circle of Candor | Living Magic with Juju
We’ve started leaning on “I love you” to express emotions we no longer have words for — hurt, fear, gratitude, loneliness, longing. This piece looks at how our emotional vocabulary quietly shrank, how love-language became camouflage for truths we’re afraid… Continue reading
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The Inflation of Love — Circle of Candor | Living Magic with Juju
We live in a culture where “love” shows up everywhere — in conversations, comments, captions, and casual moments. But when the word is used so often that it becomes background noise, its meaning starts to thin. This reflection explores how… Continue reading
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The Fear of Saying “I Love You” — Circle of Candor | Living Magic with Juju
Many people who hesitate to say “I love you” aren’t cold or unfeeling — they’re carrying a childhood where vulnerability never felt safe. This reflection looks at survival homes, emotional silence, and the way our nervous system learns to brace… Continue reading
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“The Currency of I Love You” — Circle of Candor | Living Magic with Juju
Part 1 of the I Love You Series explores how the phrase “I love you” often shows up in moments of conflict, fear, or discomfort—sometimes as connection, sometimes as avoidance. Through the lens of Circle of Candor, this piece breaks… Continue reading
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Raised to Fear My Own People: Unlearning the Racism I Was Born Into
Some lessons are not learned — they’re absorbed. This story traces the fear I inherited, the moment it stopped making sense, and the slow, honest work of seeing my people through my own eyes instead of someone else’s warnings. Continue reading
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A Letter to My Younger Self: The Woman She Can Finally Believe In | Journal Entry #10 – Alchemy of Voices by Living Magic with Juju
I didn’t realize that surviving would mean slowly erasing parts of myself. But this entry isn’t about loss — it’s about the return. The woman I needed to believe in once felt like a myth, a whisper I could never… Continue reading
