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Breaking the Cycle

So, you walk proudly into a room, it appears confidence exudes from your very pores. There is a sway in your hips and the touch of a smile on your lips. Across the room stands a Sistah, your peer, and she is looking you up and down, having formed an opinion. She’s “Thinking”, who is this uppity, smug and conceited SISTAH! She doesn’t know your name and if she does, she does not know your story. Yet she has subjected you to “She Thinks.” Having read your mind and now knows what you are thinking. She has little idea of what you have been through. How is she to know that the smile on your face is hiding the tears from invisible bruises rained on you by your significant other? How is she to know that the sway in your hips hides the limp from being pushed down a flight of stairs? How is she to know that your head is raised not because you are uppity, but because you have been crushed down so much, that holding your head up is the only way to keep from falling or completely checking out? You walk in the room looking straight ahead not making eye contact because it has beaten out of you to look someone in the eyes. Yet, “She Thinks”! Whether you are the women who walks in the room, or the one standing back in judgment, this book is for you.