Category: Hard Lessons

• Life|Understanding Direct & Indirect Effects of Abuse and Addiction

  Generational trauma doesn’t disappear just because the person is gone. It can shape children who were never raised in the storm, and show up in behaviors that don’t match who we truly are. Awareness is the first step toward breaking what we never meant to carry.

  Lady Flava News

  November 26, 2025

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• Life|When Working Past 65 Isn’t a Choice

  A real, unfiltered look at why so many of us are being forced to work long past 65 — and why it’s not failure, it’s survival.

  Lady Flava News

  November 26, 2025

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• Life|🌻 Wrongfully Convicted

  Watching Just Mercy opened my eyes even wider to the truth I already knew: our justice system fails too many innocent people, and the cost is their entire lives. This reflection is about what the film stirred in me — and the reality behind wrongful convictions in America.

  Lady Flava News

  November 24, 2025

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