# RISELiftingOthers

> Words. Stories. Journeys. Impact.


## Posts

- [Woman-Owned Tours in Nassau, Bahamas: A Guide for Solo and Group Women Travelers](https://riseliftingothers.com/woman-owned-tours-in-nassau-bahamas-a-guide-for-solo-and-group-women-travelers/): Quick answer: KINDWalk is a woman-owned, woman-led walking tour in Nassau, Bahamas. It runs on a pay-what-you-feel model, moves in small shared groups on foot through historic Downtown Nassau, and holds no commission arrangements with the shops or attractions along the route. You can book a KINDWalk here. Why women travelers are looking for women-led experiences Solo travel has grown into one of the largest segments in the industry, and the research that exists consistently points the same direction. Luxury travel network Virtuoso reports that 71 percent of its solo clients are women. Road Scholar reports that 85 percent of its…
- [Poetry Books Like Rupi Kaur, But Rawer: What to Read After Milk and Honey](https://riseliftingothers.com/poetry-books-like-rupi-kaur-but-rawer/): You loved what Rupi Kaur opened up. The short lines, the white space, the feeling that poetry could finally speak plainly. But somewhere along the way you started wanting more teeth. Less of the tidy healing arc, more of the wound left open. If you are looking for poetry books like Rupi Kaur but rawer, you are not asking for a copy of milk and honey. You are asking for what comes after the softness, when you are ready to be told the truth without the bow on top. Here is where to go next. What “Rawer” Actually Means It helps…
- [Spiritual Support After Domestic Abuse: Finding Faith in the Breaking](https://riseliftingothers.com/spiritual-support-domestic-abuse/): If you are looking for spiritual support after domestic abuse, you are likely carrying two wounds at once. There is what happened to you. And there is the harder, quieter question underneath it: where was your faith in all of it, and where is it now. This is for that second wound. The one people rarely name out loud. If you are in immediate danger, please reach out now. In the United States: the National Domestic Violence Hotline at 1-800-799-7233.Wherever you are, you can find a local helpline at findahelpline.com. You do not have to explain everything. You only have to…
- [Ethical Tourism in the Bahamas: What It Means to Book a Female-Owned Nassau Tour](https://riseliftingothers.com/ethical-tourism-in-the-bahamas-what-it-means-to-book-a-female-owned-nassau-tour/): Most visitors never see where their tour money goes. It disappears into a booking platform, a cruise concession, a chain of commissions, and only a thin slice ever reaches the place you came to experience. Ethical tourism in the Bahamas starts with a simple question that the industry would rather you not ask: who actually benefits from this? KINDWalk is one answer. It is a female-owned, women-led walking tour of historic Nassau, guided by a Bahamian local, run without commissions or kickbacks. When you book it, the money stays close to the ground it came from. Quick Facts What Ethical Tourism…
- [Pay What You Want Tour in the Bahamas: How KINDWalk Works in Nassau](https://riseliftingothers.com/pay-what-you-want-tour-in-the-bahamas-how-kindwalk-works-in-nassau/): If you have ever finished a tour feeling like you paid for a sales pitch instead of an experience, you already understand why a pay what you want tour in the Bahamas exists. In a cruise port stacked with fixed-price excursions and hard upsells, KINDWalk does something quietly radical: it lets you decide what the experience was worth after you have lived it. This is a guided walking tour of historic Nassau led by a Bahamian local. You are not booking a package. You are booking a slower, more honest way to see the city, priced by trust instead of by…
- [Nassau Has a Hotel That Hosted Churchill, the Beatles, and Allegedly a Beyoncé Proposal](https://riseliftingothers.com/nassau-has-a-hotel-that-hosted-churchill-the-beatles-and-allegedly-a-beyonce-proposal/): That pink colonial mansion on West Hill Street, right across from Government House, has one of the most layered histories of any building in Nassau. Most people walking past it have no idea. Built on the Bones of a Church and a Pirate’s Home The land itself goes back further than the current building. The original site housed a church, but in 1703 Spanish raids led to a fire that heavily damaged it. A pirate then built his home on top of the ruins. The mansion was originally built in 1740 by Captain John Howard Graysmith, who commanded the notorious schooner…
- [Neglect Was a Surprising Blessing](https://riseliftingothers.com/what-absence-taught-me-growing-in-wild-soil/): They didn't show up. But their absence gave me space — to become clever, to hear everything no one said out loud, to clap quietly for myself and mean it. An essay on growing in wild soil, and why not being tended to taught me everything a garden never could.
- [Sir...Where?](https://riseliftingothers.com/you-say-you-loved-me-absent-father-where-was-it/): You say you always loved me. Sir — where? An essay on searching for a father's love in every birthday he missed, every unanswered call, every report card margin, and learning it was never hiding anywhere. Because love is a verb, not a voicemail you ignore.
- [I Didn't Come Here To Suffer](https://riseliftingothers.com/flat-tire-sunday-disaster-rim-grocery-money/): It was just a slightly flat tire. Surely minor. Surely not a prelude to whatever that Sunday was about to become. An essay on inflators that do nothing, tires that remove themselves from rims with full attitude, and the moment a car inconvenience quietly becomes a grocery problem.
- [Why Pink?](https://riseliftingothers.com/why-pink/): Was it ever really a choice? Or did they paint our world with it until it soaked into our skin, until we couldn’t tell where the marketing ended and our own preferences began? Whispering—always whispering, never shouting, because that would make the programming too obvious—This is who you are. This is how you’ll be seen. Not a suggestion. A declaration. An assignment given before we had language to question it, before we had the tools to ask why our section of the toy store looked like bubble gum and cotton candy while the boys’ section looked like battlefields and construction sites.…
- [WHY are Hickies?](https://riseliftingothers.com/why-are-hickies/): Soft, sweet, and slightly violated — like your neck.
- [Who Invented Kissing?... and Why Am I Involved?](https://riseliftingothers.com/who-invented-kissing-why-is-it-romantic/): I was minding my business at 1am until my brain asked who decided lip-smashing meant love. An essay on kissing being objectively strange, the person who first introduced tongues into the equation, and why we all just nodded and signed up anyway.
- [Stop Asking “Are You Ok?”](https://riseliftingothers.com/stop-asking-are-you-ok/): ...... and other empty performances we need to retire.
- [What Is Not A Woman?](https://riseliftingothers.com/what-is-a-woman-definition-language-requires-edges/): She is not nothing. So she must be something.The room folds in on itself when you ask it. She is not her womb, not her chromosomes — so what is she? An essay that tries a different door: not what a woman is, but what she is not, and why language without edges stops meaning anything at all.
- [If I Can See Your Blueprint, You Owe Me Rent](https://riseliftingothers.com/if-i-can-see-your-blueprint-you-owe-me-rent/): I didn’t ask to know. About your outline. About how certain fabrics cling, stretch, or sway with your every step like a metronome of masculinity. But the internet told me anyway. Told all of us. Grey sweatpants, they said. As if this fabric held sacred knowledge. As if this—this arbitrary cotton blend—was the blueprint for desire. Meanwhile, I’m just trying to breathe, trying to love a man with a quiet mind and strong hands, trying to figure out why my glutes disappeared the moment I turned 25 but his are out here lifting, curving, living their best sculpted life. I watch…
- [Glazed and Gentrified](https://riseliftingothers.com/glazed-and-gentrified/): I ate chicken wings and chuckled. Because chicken wings were once slave food. Back when the “good cuts” went to the master’s table, and we were left with scraps, bones, and bruises. But survival makes artists out of the desperate. We seasoned struggle, fried it crisp, and turned into a delicacy what was meant to mock us The audacity— for him to look over, see us not just surviving but thriving licking our fingers in joy— and decidehe wants that too. So now the wing has been elevated. High-priced. Artisan. Deli meat for the gentrified. Bar food for the hip. Instagram-famous.…
- [Beauty Is WASTED On Men....YES I Said It!!](https://riseliftingothers.com/beauty-is-wasted-on-men-yes-i-said-it/): Let me just say it plainly: Men got all the beauty… and they didn’t even order it. Didn’t ask. Didn’t pray. Just spawned into the world with lashes for days, skin like silk, and a butt that looks gym-sculpted even though he hasn’t seen a squat since '03. Meanwhile, women? We’refighting for our lives. We’ve got 10-step skincare routines, setting sprays that cost more than rent, and still—STILL—some man is out here washing his entire body and face with the same bar of soap and washcloth and has the nerve to be glowing. Dimples? I have two of them. Cute, symmetrical,…
- [Disruption](https://riseliftingothers.com/disruption-redirects-you-obstacle-was-the-way/): Disruption doesn't knock. It arrives in the middle of things — when the momentum is real, when you've finally stopped holding your breath. An essay on walls that are actually redirections, and the somewhere better you would never have gone looking for on your own.
- [Not Every Table Is Serving Food](https://riseliftingothers.com/high-fashion-exclusion-art-not-body-shaming-representation/): Fashion wasn't designed to shame you. It was designed around the garment. An essay on the difference between art and commerce, why some exclusion is just specificity, and what we lose when we demand representation in spaces that were never meant to reflect us.
- [The Space Between Nothing and Something](https://riseliftingothers.com/women-friendship-purpose-vs-men-doing-nothing-together/): Men gather in garages with no agenda and call it friendship. Women arrive with casseroles, book clubs, and stated intentions. An essay on what men are quietly learning in the nothing-space — and what women keep losing by only entering each other's lives through purpose.
- [Men Don’t Always Shatter Loudly](https://riseliftingothers.com/men-who-go-quiet-silent-emotional-collapse-grief/): Some disappearances don't sound like breaking glass. They sound like routine. The bills still get paid. The laughter still happens. But something inside starts to ghost itself. An essay on men who go missing in plain sight — and the people who watched them go.
- [Not the Same Street](https://riseliftingothers.com/not-the-same-street/): Sometimes the same curtain hangs in very different windows.
- [The Measure of Equals](https://riseliftingothers.com/strong-women-emotional-maturity-wholeness-not-halves/): I'm not looking for someone to complete me. I completed myself. I'm looking for someone who has done the same — who meets strength with strength and doesn't fold the first time life asks something real of them. An essay on wholeness, immaturity, and the love that doesn't require you to shrink.
- [Doors That Close Before We Reach Them](https://riseliftingothers.com/grief-for-alternate-self-mourning-what-never-was/): Sometimes grief isn’t about what we lost, but what was never ours to begin with. A father cries at his daughter's wedding on TikTok. You watch it. And something quiet breaks open — not for what you lost, but for what never existed to lose. An essay on the strangest grief: mourning the alternate version of a life you don't even want anymore.
- [Co-Authored](https://riseliftingothers.com/visible-power-vs-real-power-we-built-the-pedestal/): The figure at the podium is a surface. The decisions that alter the shape of ordinary life trace back to rooms we were never invited into. An essay on why we keep choosing the face over the architecture — and what it means that we built the pedestal ourselves.
- [For You, He Said](https://riseliftingothers.com/absent-father-doing-it-for-you-lie-ambition-vs-love/): My father's biggest lie was never spoken with malice. At twelve, I believed him. At twenty, I performed believing him. At twenty-eight, I stopped. An essay on fathers who confuse ambition with affection, the lie wrapped in sentiment, and what you give yourself when the person who should have shown up never did.
- [What are you afraid of?](https://riseliftingothers.com/why-adults-dislike-children-fear-of-being-seen/): Children don't care about your credentials, your wit, or your carefully constructed public self. They only want to know if you're warm, safe, and actually present. An essay on why some adults find that simple test more threatening than they'd like to admit.
- [November](https://riseliftingothers.com/guy-fawkes-tradition-normalizing-violence-human-nature/): I was seven when I watched my neighbors stuff a man from straw and set him on fire — and call it tradition. An essay on Guy Fawkes Night, how humans normalize cruelty through repetition, and the moment I stopped trusting the crowd.
- [Skin](https://riseliftingothers.com/womens-sports-uniforms-sexualization-athlete-dress-codes/): Women's sports have always had a quiet addendum: be excellent, but also be visible in the right ways. An essay on uniform policies, the male gaze in athletics, and why what women athletes wear keeps telling the truth the rulebook refuses to say.
- [I Am Legion.](https://riseliftingothers.com/i-am-legion-containing-multitudes-plural-identity/): What if we were never meant to be one thing?What if you've never been one person — and that's not a problem to solve? An essay on containing multitudes, the 4D mind that sees everything connecting, and what it means to be plural, vast, and awake to all the selves you've ever been.
- [The Distance Between Deciding and Arriving](https://riseliftingothers.com/why-knowing-doesnt-heal-grief-has-its-own-schedule/): You can see the truth clearly, name it, accept it — and still wake up the same distance from peace. An essay on why grief ignores your logic, why healing is quieter than a decision, and what actually happens when you finally stop bracing.
- [A Black Woman, Somewhere](https://riseliftingothers.com/tired-of-being-strong-black-women-mental-health/): What happens when you're expected to be strong before you even open your eyes? An essay on Black women, anxiety, the weight of the Strong Black Woman myth, and the exhaustion of surviving a world that never built a door for you to rest behind.
- [The Altar of Exchange](https://riseliftingothers.com/discipline-vs-regret-the-price-you-always-pay/): You think walking away from your dream saves you from paying the price. It doesn't. The altar is always there — the only choice is what you place on it. An essay on sacrifice, regret, and the ghost of the life you didn't build.
- [The Filter](https://riseliftingothers.com/impulse-vs-action-intrusive-thoughts-human-nature/): A baby hits his mother. His twin brother crawls over to stop it. Both of them understand something we spent years learning to suppress. An essay on impulse, empathy, and what intrusive thoughts actually are.
- [The Last Clean Spoon](https://riseliftingothers.com/running-out-of-spoons-burnout-survival/): The sink is full. The laundry is alive. And you have exactly one spoon left. An essay on burnout, the weight of should, and why cereal for dinner is sometimes the most honest form of survival.
- [I Don't Want To Be A Woman](https://riseliftingothers.com/rejecting-womanhood-as-performance-existing-as-yourself/): What if womanhood isn't something you feel — it's something the world forces onto you? An essay on the exhaustion of constant demand, the clarity of rejecting the script, and what's left when you stop performing a role you never applied for.
- [Spent](https://riseliftingothers.com/when-you-run-out-of-grief-chronic-loss/): What happens when you've grieved so much, for so long, that no single loss can take you down anymore? An essay on chronic grief, emotional spending, and what it means when pain becomes a skill instead of an event.
- [No Why](https://riseliftingothers.com/why-soldiers-feel-safer-than-police-trust-psychology/): A woman in an airport hands her toddler to a soldier without hesitation. This essay asks why that makes complete sense — and what it reveals about trust, uniforms, and how our bodies decide who is safe.
- [The Quiet Violence of Living Beside a Stranger](https://riseliftingothers.com/why-do-i-startle-when-my-husband-walks-in/): If you still startle when your husband walks into the room, your body might be telling you something your mind won't say. An essay on nervous systems, marriage, and what it means when home never quite feels safe.
- [I didn't think this was something I had to heal from](https://riseliftingothers.com/i-didn-t-think-this-was-something-i-had-to-heal-from/): I just thought it was something funny to share — a memory tucked in the odd corners of childhood.  But like most of my thoughts, there’s always another layer.  Nothing is ever as simple as I try to make it seem.
- [Brother, Until Proven Otherwise](https://riseliftingothers.com/brother-until-proven-otherwise/): They say men and women can be friends. Close, even. Like siblings. Shared jokes, inside language, ride-or-die energy. The kind of friendship where you finish each other's sentences and show up without being asked and know the exact right thing to say when the world goes sideways. And sometimes—rarely, beautifully, preciously—it's true. But most of us have learned to scan the fine print. To ask, silently, in the pause between his laughter and ours: "How long until you want something?" "What will you do when I say no?" "Was it ever real, or was I always just the long game?" The…
- [Y’all Keep Bringing Riddles to a Conversation](https://riseliftingothers.com/why-people-dont-answer-the-question-you-asked-group-behavior/): I asked a clear question. Someone brought up their neighbor, someone else brought up avocados, and a third person cried about the 90s. An essay on group behavior, the strange logic of how people process clarity, and why I've stopped chasing feelings around the room like loose chickens.
- ["Thank You For Your Service" is Not Enough](https://riseliftingothers.com/stop-crying-airport-military-reunions-war-propaganda/): We cry at the reunions. We wave the flags. We say thank you for your service without asking what service actually means — or who paid for it with their lives on the other side. An essay on military glorification, complicity, and the blood we've all agreed not to look at.
- [Preference Is Not Identity](https://riseliftingothers.com/right-to-be-you-doesnt-require-my-applause-quiet-discernment/): I can value your existence without endorsing your performance of it. An essay on what happens when applause becomes obligation, why freedom works both ways, and the quiet right to discernment that no one talks about without immediately being misread.

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