Spirit of Hope

10/10/2025

World Mental Health Day: A Reflection on Humanity

Today should be about healing, but healing cannot happen if we refuse to acknowledge how deeply unwell our world has become.

Somewhere along the way, humanity traded compassion for convenience, empathy for ego, and truth for influence. We have normalized greed and called it success. We have weaponized religion and called it faith. We have built systems of control and power, and we call them order while injustice hides in plain sight.

We live in a time where narcissism is celebrated as confidence, self-interest is masked as self-love, and those who cry for justice are labeled as threats. People have become self-appointed demi gods, policing others’ lives as if they were judge and jury, forgetting that humility and kindness once defined what it meant to be human.

When do we stop projecting our unhealed trauma onto others?
When do we stop lying just to protect our false narratives?
When do we stop destroying others to keep ourselves shining in the limelight?
When do we decide to be better models for the children watching us repeat the same generational pain we claim to hate?

World Mental Health Day is not just about awareness, it is a call for accountability.
Healing requires honesty. Growth requires humility. Peace requires empathy.

We as people need to work on our mental health and take accountability for how we, as a nation and as a world, show up. The reflection begins with each of us.

We cannot keep pretending we are fine while the world is breaking under the weight of its own deceit.
If we truly want a world that values mental health, we must first restore our humanity.

Because no matter how powerful, wealthy, or divine some claim to be, none of us are gods.
We are all just people, broken in different ways, trying to find our way back to the light.



Moe Grace

10/07/2025

The State of the World and Our Mental Health

Right now, we are living through hard times. Many federal workers continue to show up each day, even without pay, carrying the weight of uncertainty while still serving the nation. People are stressed, worried, and tired. Bills are piling up, and the silence from those in power only deepens the ache.

When systems break, people get hurt. When leadership loses sight of humanity, communities begin to lose faith. But even in this moment, hope has not disappeared—it’s waiting to be seen again in small acts of care, in voices that speak up for what’s right, and in hearts that refuse to give up on one another.

Take a moment today to breathe deeply. Let light back in. Check on someone you love. Remind them that they matter. If you are one of those impacted, please take care of your mental health. Your peace, your rest, and your hope are sacred. You are not invisible. You are not forgotten.

We may not control what happens in high places, but we can choose what happens in our hearts. Choose compassion. Choose connection. Choose to keep believing that things can get better—because they can, and they will.

Hope is not naïve; it’s the quiet strength that keeps us standing when everything around us shakes. It’s the light that reminds us that tomorrow is still worth fighting for.

Hold on to hope. The world needs your light.

Moe Grace

09/30/2025

When Your Skin Tone Becomes a Liability: The Unspoken Toll of Colorism

America really has a way of remixing the same old record and calling it a new hit. It is 2025 and somehow the brown paper bag test still lingers in the shadows of our beauty standards. We just dress it up in hashtags, filters, and “inclusive” ad campaigns where lighter skin is still the lead singer and darker shades get relegated to backup vocals.

Let us not pretend this is ancient history. Turn on The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder and you will see Trudy Proud breaking it down for her daughter about colorism because our kids are already navigating a battlefield of beauty they did not create. Imagine being 10 years old and learning that the world measures your worth not by your spirit, not by your smile, not by your brilliance, but by whether your skin matches a grocery store bag. And then we wonder why our children wrestle with self esteem, depression, and fractured identities.

The cruel irony? America markets itself as the land of the free while keeping our communities chained to a spectrum of “acceptable Blackness.” We celebrate “Black excellence” on one hand and then Photoshop, bleach, and filter away the fullness of our beauty with the other. It is like an abusive relationship where the abuser swears they love you but keeps changing the rules on how you are allowed to exist.

Satire of the day: In 2025 you can apply for a loan with facial recognition, buy groceries with a QR code, and AI can write you a love letter in Shakespearean verse, but Black children still look in the mirror and wonder if their skin tone is a liability.

America, we do not need any more skin tone tutorials. What we need is honesty. Colorism is not just a social issue, it is a mental health crisis. And until we deal with it, we are not progressing, we are just recycling trauma in HD.

Yours truly,
Unfiltered imagery,
Moe Grace

09/18/2025

When Charlie Kirk and others like him spew hate-filled rhetoric, painting Black people as villains, they are not just talking—they are fueling violence. They are complicit in the climate that makes deaths like Demartravion “Trey” Reed possible.

Trey was only 21 years old, a Delta State University student, found hanging. His death is already being dismissed as su***de. But history is filled with the same lie: countless lynchings of Black people rebranded as “su***des” while racists walked free and families carried generational grief. That legacy lives on.

We cannot ignore the facts: racial acts and hate crimes are increasing. Hate is no longer hiding—it is organizing, spreading, and showing itself in classrooms, on campuses, in neighborhoods, and in our politics. Every dismissal of a Black death as “su***de” without real investigation only emboldens these acts further.

This is not just about Trey—it is about the ongoing attack on Blackness. Every time our deaths are dismissed, it is another strike in America’s war against Black lives. And the cost is not just measured in bodies—it is measured in the mental health, fear, and despair of entire communities.

We are tired. We are frustrated. We are angry. Angry at systems that bury truth, silence accountability, and treat our lives as negotiable. Tired of burying our youth. Tired of the erasure of truth. Tired of being told to move on when history keeps repeating itself.

BLACK LIVES MATTER. Not in hashtags. Not in theory. But in practice, in accountability, in justice.

From Moe Grace, Drago & Hover:
Hope will not hang. Our spirits will not break. One love. One hope. One demand: Justice.

09/16/2025

Veterans Connect – Su***de Prevention: A Community Approach
Join us for an impactful evening as our panel of veterans and experts come together to discuss su***de prevention and behavioral health from a community perspective. 💬✨

📅 Thursday, Sept 18th
⏰ 6–8 PM EST
📍 Veterans Growing America, 15001 Potomac Town Place #130, Woodbridge, VA

Our panelists will share insights on how to build supportive, empathetic, and proactive environments that encourage help-seeking while maintaining accountability and resilience.

👥 Featuring:
• Mr. Miguel Sierra – Su***de Prevention Advocate & Army Veteran
• Mr. Brian Sanders – CSM (Retired), United States Army
• Dr. Arielle Jordan – Licensed Therapist, Speaker, Author, & Army Veteran
• Mrs. Millie Frank – Former Su***de Prevention Program Manager & Army Veteran

🔗 RSVP today and be part of the conversation that saves lives.
RSVP here: https://bit.ly/3Jr4pvr

09/15/2025

“Have you ever wondered why it takes so much strength just to get out of bed some days? Why the heaviest battles are not with the world outside, but with the shadows inside—fear, doubt, and pain that whisper you don’t matter? What if the truth is that your very act of rising is proof that you do?”

Spirit the Dragonfly wants to remind us…
Sometimes the greatest darkness is not around us, but within us—the voices that whisper we are not enough, the shadows of pain, fear, and doubt that weigh us down. These are the demons we wrestle with just to exist, just to breathe, just to rise and face another day.

And yet, here you are.
Every morning you get up is proof of your strength. Every step forward, even when heavy, is a victory. You matter—not because the world always sees it, but because your spirit is still fighting, still shining, still choosing life in the face of struggle.

The inner Spirit is within you.
It is the quiet flame that refuses to be put out, the unshaken whisper that says: “Live. Try again. Fight another day.” That light is yours, and it will never leave you.

Mental Health Nugget: Healing doesn’t happen in a single moment—it happens in the courage to take small steps, again and again, until light breaks through the dark.

So rise, even in your brokenness.
You are not weak—you are powerful beyond measure, because you are still here. And every time you rise, you remind the world and yourself that your existence is hope.

With wings of light,
𝓢𝓹𝓲𝓻𝓲𝓽 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓓𝓻𝓪𝓰𝓸𝓷𝓯𝓵𝔂

09/12/2025

Drago & Hover Ask: When life knocks you down, will you give up—or will you rise again?

Drago: “Life doesn’t demand perfection—it asks for persistence. When the weight gets heavy, don’t quit. Restart.”

Hover: “If the storm clouds blur your vision, don’t surrender. Reset your perspective.”

Drago: “And when distractions pull you away from your purpose, don’t collapse. Refocus.”

Mental Health Nugget:
Your healing is not erased by setbacks—it’s strengthened by them. Every restart is proof of resilience, every reset is a reclaiming of peace, and every refocus is a reminder that your journey continues.

One love,
Drago & Hover

09/10/2025

09/10/2025

09/09/2025

Drago & Hover: When the Mind Leaves Before You Do

Drago:
“Ever been in a room, smiling and nodding, but inside you’ve already left? That’s dissociation. It’s not just daydreaming—it’s the mind’s survival button. When trauma, anxiety, or depression feel too heavy, the brain pulls the plug and says: ‘I’ll protect you by disconnecting.’”

Hover:
“Dissociation is common. It looks like losing hours of time, feeling numb, or watching yourself from the outside. It’s not weakness—it’s survival. But it also robs us of being fully alive.”

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The Connection
• Trauma teaches the brain to escape the unbearable.
• Anxiety keeps the alarm on overdrive until checking out feels safer.
• Depression deepens the emptiness, where days blur and joy feels distant.

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Healing Nuggets

Drago: “First, name it. Saying ‘This is dissociation’ breaks the silence.”
Hover: “Ground yourself—touch something cold, look for five things around you, remind your body it’s safe.”
Drago: “Find safe people and safe spaces—you don’t need to disappear where love and safety exist.”
Hover: “And don’t be afraid to reach for therapy. CBT, DBT, EMDR, and somatic healing can bring your spirit back home.”

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Drago:
“Dissociation is not weakness. It’s survival.”

Hover:
“But survival is only the first chapter. Healing is the rest of the story.”

Together:
“You deserve to be here—fully, joyfully, and completely present.”

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✨ — A mental health nugget from Drago & Hover the Dragonflies