Reader Mail: Your Videos Are My Remedy

Hey, Te-Erika :)

I just have to let you know that you have become a huge inspiration to me. Your videos have brought me such immense peace and hope. I'm coming to the end of a huge struggle in my life and your videos have been a remedy to my state of mind and the way that I choose to tackle my circumstances.

This transitioning phase in my life has not been smooth sailing and it has been incredibly helpful and empowering to have your blunt, yet soothing honesty and motivation right along with me through that. I really just want to say thank you so much for that. It means so much and if I ever get the opportunity to repay you for that, I won't hesitate. I hope that you never feel your videos and your huge humanitarian-psychological effort isn't unappreciated because it really is and I can't be the only one who feels this way. Finding your youtube channel has been a huge stepping stone for me and my progress and I am just so deeply grateful that there is someone selfless and considerate enough to spend so much time pouring insight, encouragement, empowerment, healing, and advice into strangers.

Stay wonderful :)

A. Smith

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Reader Mail: I Am Not A Victim, I'm A Vessel

Dear Te-Erika,

I found your site at random while viewing news. I read the article & thankfully found your website. I have to tell you that I've been absolutely hooked since then! Its only been a week but this is a site I KNOW I'll continue to read for as long as its there!

I'm extremely grateful for this site. I cant begin to explain the importance to me and how important it could be to so many more women out there, if they only knew it existed, but I know the news will spread and what a blessing it will be to so many!

I know where u are, where you've been, as I can relate first hand. I would absolutely LOVE to contribute to your site. I too am in a place in my life where many changes have occurred & continue. But I know that it is God calling me to a different place in life; a place where I can understand where other women are and have been so that I will one day be able to help them. I'm not sour about life because i can see the Lord's reasoning and I understand it, so I'm actually grateful even while others look down on me. I know I have overcome what many could not; and I know I will continue to prevail through any & all trials!

I have many stories for you, but I'd like to separate them ad turn them into stories of inspiration for others, even though I'm not yet...at my "top" but because I have survived; I'm not a victim; I am a vessel and I will allow the lord to do his work through me.*

I would love to be able to speak with you one day. I would absolutely love to meet you. You are an incredible inspiration to me and to many others.

Thank you, thank you for sharing your experiences and the wisdom you gain along the way. I am no longer ashamed or embarrassed to share my experiences with others who may be searching for just that story on your site. I thank YOU for that!!

Ms. Liz

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Reader Mail: We Have The Right To Forgive Ourselves

Hello Te-Erika,

My name is Rev. Brenita Mitchell. I am a workshop specialist currently working with men and women with HIV/AIDS and recovering substance abusers. I recently facilitated a workshop with women living with the virus.

I created a role-play with a court scene that features a women named beautiful who was accused of having unprotected sex and costing the state and tax payers money. She plead guilty, and awaited her sentence. Finally, the jurors gave Beautiful a sentence of "forgiveness."



I wrote out the words to your self-forgiveness meditation on youtube (I cited your information) and had the women playing Beautiful read it when the judge asked her was there something she wanted to say. Well, the women playing Beautiful could hardly get through it without other participants holding her up. I just want to tell you that the words, deeply blessed all the women in the workshop, and tears poured out as Beautiful read them.

Thank you for writing such inspirational words. Funny, you just never know what God will use to bless, and God used your gift of words to bless a group of women that needed to know they have the right to forgive themselves and live a life free from shame, guilt and self-disgust. Thank you for sharing your gift for writing, and may God continue to bless and shine God's light on the work of your hands.

Blessings and Peace,

Rev. Brenita

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Reader Mail: I'm In This Life-Long Journey With You

Hello My Sister!

I know you've encountered so MANY people along your journeys, but if you recall I'm the young lady who reached out to you last week. I spoke to you for awhile over the phone before you went into work for the night. I'm the 27 year old young lady from New Jersey who recently had a BREAKDOWN over heartache, etc. I just wanted to take a moment to say THANK YOU. I thank you my sister for working thru God to do all that you're doing. Sometimes, the wisdom of an "outsider" who's been there and done that is better than any other at the moment!

I have to honestly say that I have taken much of the advice you've given me over the phone into consideration and decided to keep on LIVING! By that, I don't mean I contemplated suicide or anything, but I decided not to let the perils, trials, and tribulations that life has been bringing allow me to lose touch of self! I decided to keep on pushing and have the success I desire in this lifetime. Since our conversation, I have followed many of your YouTube videos, website: mysavvysisters.com, Facebook, etc. to get to know you better! It's one thing to seek the advice of an outsider over the phone, but it's another to learn about their journey enough to understand how it is they were able to help YOU ("you" being MYSELF), and how it is that they've become who they are today.

I followed your videos from the Rebuilding Your Life Project and so on and so forth. Your journey has truly been inspirational and amazing to a young sister like me. I look forward to more of your wonderful work! Not only do I feel as if I've met an amazing mentor, but also as if I've made a new lifelong friend.

By the way, congratulations on the recent publishing of your book, It's Not a Sin to Be Single! Like you, I aspire to provide self-help to others along my journey as well. No longer will I let rejection, heartache, and long-suffering determine the outcome of my success! Thank you my Sister! God bless you! I'm in this life long journey with you!

P.S. I love Miami. I hope to relocate from New Jersey sooner than later! Who knows, maybe Miami will be a great relocation for me in the future!

Sincerely,

S. N. Guest

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Reader Mail: Your Videos Help My Soul

Hi! I just want to thank you so much for your inspirational, motivational youtube videos. They have done so much for my soul! I can't even explain with words :)

I'm currently finding my way back to life and your videos are helping me make that process easier and kind of directing me a little bit. Thank you so much for reaching out to some strangers and helping us.

God bless :)

X.D.

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Reader Mail: God Supports Those Who Follow Their Soul

Dear Te-Erika,

I've spent the whole evening reading your diaries with great pleasure. It surprised that that even though we have lived totaly different lives, we have quite a lot in common in our attitudes! I felt especially close to you in your entry "I'm not mentally ill" - it felt like you described my own feelings! I had the exact same problems in life with other people calling me insane because I couldn't keep a job for long time just because I didn't feel I can be myself there. More than that, my mother (RIP) has taken me to psychiatrists that tagged me as a manic depressive or having ADHD disorder.

Some of them also said I behave like this because I used to be a heroin addict. But the truth was, that I didn't see these things like most people. I couldn't appreciate the "normal life" people live, and going to the same work everyday as such a gift because we all live only once, and I can do so much more to contribute than kill my time in an office or a factory. Even in when I studied in professional school, I felt like they teach me how to be someone else that "would sell better". I hope you understand what I mean.

My luck was that I met some good people that had the same problems and kept telling me that I have to find my own self and my own way. So when I was backpacking for two years, sometimes on the streets, sometimes in the nature and sometimes finding a place in a squat, I had plenty of time to learn myself and to find out that when I don't "have" to do something that somebody else tells me to, when I am free to choose what I do with my time, I actually don't have depression at all. And I felt really happy, even if I was sometimes cold or hungry. I also managed to stop using heroin, which seemed impossible to me, because the whole time that I was working, I was on and off using.

I started it when I was 17, it became worse after my mother's death when I was 18, and I truly lost myself in it, because I had no family and no one to take care of me. 5 years of addiction with endless tries to quit seemed like forever to me. And the whole time people said to me "why can't you just be normal?".. So you can imagine how surprised I was that exactly on the "lowest point", when I had no home and family and I was a backpacker in a foreign country, it was suddenly possible for me to quit, be happy and keep it that way. Just because I felt free and had hope for the future.

My man has also given me a lot of hope, since he has gone through the same way, and together we can keep each other from depression and drug addiction, that both of us were facing when nobody around could understand or support us, and the feeling that we were living someone else's life. I know it sounds silly, but before taking my journey I simply didn't imagine that there's another way to live, a way of MY OWN.

I truly believe that God supports those who follow their soul, just like he did for me, time after time. And I believe that your journey is not for nothing, that you will reach your goals, or maybe get to a deeper understanding of yourself and your mission in this life.

I hope this letter would bring support and strength to you. I am sorry again for taking your time with this long letter.. I just was so excited when I read your diary that I had to write this to you.

Thank you so much for sharing this. I hope you keep in touch with us. Please take care of your beautiful self.

Big warm hugs from Romania and best wishes!!

Love,
Karen

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Reader Mail: Your Project Inspires Me

Hi there Te-Erika, girl wow hard to know what to say about what your doing, here's me about to close a store that isn't making money and I feel lost and disappointed, like I've failed and here you are giving away your things to go out into a world that isn't kind, and is cold even in the hottest summer times.

I admire you, your swim against the tide, not easy to do, you don't let your experiences kick you to the floor and leave you there, you still dig your nails in and hold onto the tiniest of things determined to pull yourself up, determined to be FREE, I will follow you, in heart and in thought and maybe in your doing what your doing, it will give me strength and the courage that I need to step out again, knowing that sometimes life demands you shift gears and you can and you will if you are determined to, no matter what it may seem like, "weeping does endure for a night Ms. Te-Erika, but joy cometh in the morning." and I'm sure that God will bring that light bright and clearly to your path so that every step you take in this new adventure, will be a testimony to someone else, and to me.

See you when you come out of that dark place that your about to enter in, see you smiling and happy and excited, YOU CAN AND WILL DO THIS because it's your calling, as crazy as it may be or seem, and hopefully I will be able to share my story with you too.

Email me if you simply need a You Can! Email me if you need me to remind you to create your own reality, Email me if you need me to remind you of the Secret, Email me to simply say you cried or laughed, or sang, or groaned, were hungry for food but full of the blessings of the Most HIGH... My sister, my savvy unique and beautiful sister I love you, and support you in this your new endeavor...... Think of me from time to time. It is not by chance that we met, it was ordained, maybe to give you this tiny word of encouragement, maybe to encourage myself.

You are richer than most, because you know that you have yourself. and that you are more than a conquerer, Love peace and happiness Te-Erika, Love Peace and Happiness, wherever you may be....... Keep warm in love, from my heart to yours. Girl you are FREE!!!!!!!!!! Many Blessings.

Angela........

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