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LB Lacey, CEO, SOULutions for Dynamic Living

"If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down all alone, these women together ought to be able to turn it back and get it right-side up again."

--Sojourner Truth

LB Lacey is available for schools, universities, special events and communities to deliver customized
motivational messages.

With humor, style and grace LB Lacey shares her enthusiasm about personal, professional and educational GREATNESS

"No one, no, nor no one million
ones dare deny me God, I go forth
alone, and stand as ten thousand."

-Maya Angelou

LB Lacey is dedicated to
helping young people, minorities, women and all people to understand

that they can live an empowered and authentic life no matter what their ethnic, educational or socio-economic background is.

Presentation Topics:

*Woman Thou Art GREAT! Claiming Your GREATNESS in a Difficult World

*Releasing Your Inner-SHERO: Tapping Into Your Inner-POWER for All You Need to SUCCEED

P-Prayerful Perseverance

O- Overcoming Obstacles

W- Wielding Wisdom

E- Empowered Enlightenment

R- Restoring Reality

*Less Stress with Every Breath: Recognizing & Minimizing Stress in Your Life...Before it Destroys You!

"All my life I have always known I was born to greatness. "
-OPRAH WINFREY

Other Services

Educational Consulting

Stress Reduction Workshops

Voice Over Projects

Holistic Healing Greeting Cards

Copy Writing & Editing

Ghostwriting

LB Lacey, MA. is CEO of SOULutions for Dynamic Living, LLC a holistic consulting service dedicated to providing products and services that support individuals in their intention to live dynamically and effectively in the world. LB is a holistic (meaning "whole") modality based practitioner. Services are rendered in the form of workshops, advising via telephone and/or email, CD's and a new line of holistic greeting cards.

LB has earned her BA in English and Theatre and MA in Holistic counseling from Salve Regina University. She is formally trained in the Gestalt method of counseling and is Reiki level 1 Certified. LB is committed to sharing holistically based therapies to teach others to heal, empower and live authentically. LB helps her clients to see that their "answers" lie within their own Body, Mind and Spirit. A substantial portion of LB's work has been centered on teaching others to free themselves from unmanages stress and its ill effects.

Over a decade ago, as the newly single mother of three young children with only a high school diploma, LB realized that she would need to make a decision to change or remain the same. LB was particularyly inspored and motivated by the examples of women who had overcome similar or more difficult circumstances than her own. From Sojourner Truth, Maya Angelou, Oprah Winfrey, Iynala Vanzant, her mother and ordinary-extraordinary women she met, heard or read about,

LB embraced every fine example of survival and success. She decided to rely on God and tap into the GREATNESS within.

At the core of her mission is the desire to enhance the empowerment of people who are disconnected from their own essential worth. LB seeks be a part of the great tradition of strong Black / African American women who show by example how one can live authentically and succeed as a human being through God.

"Everyone who has achieved any substantive modicum of greatness has suffered in one way or another. Our pain makes us human. Overcoming our suffering through perseverance, grace, wisdom and determination exemplifies triumph over adversity. This is how we tap into the inexhaustible Source of GREATNESS. Our suffering becomes our strength. This strength is our gift from the Creator to the rest of the world."

--LB Lacey

LB hopes that through her example young people--especially young women, will be inspired to push passed their own challenges and go on to reach their goals, grasp their dreams and boldly embrace GREATNESS. LB knows the courage and faith it takes to break old patterns, limitations and stereotypes. LB respects the challenge of healing passed the past and accepting the gift of a renewed future. She knows that our society and popular culture does not support individuality, authenticity or self-actualization. LB knows that the Creator accepts all these things and more. She wants to help empower individuals to define themselves rather than to be defined by the world.

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Mikki says

When I was 21-years-old I decided to decolonized my mind. I was tired of the relentless quest to be someone and something I was not. I realized that I was putting myself through psychological warfare by splitting my psyche. On the one hand I was against racism but on the other hand I was trying to absorb as much white culture as I could. For many years I “wore the mask” and for me that meant frying my hair with perms and dyes; wearing hair weaves down my back. I was putting myself through psychological trauma because I was embracing a culture that did not truly accept or love me.

I realized that I had to stop imitating the look of white people by straightening and coloring my hair and began to embrace the beauty I possessed so I cut all my hair off and started over. It got to a point where assimilating was brutalizing my being and so I took the mask off in order to stay alive. Going natural was liberating and locking my hair was empowering. My locks are not just a trend; it is my social and political declaration to the world. Every uneven strain is my statement of ethnic pride and spirituality. It is my repudiation of Eurocentric values represented in straight hair. My locks represent my constant struggle to embrace black power and unity without feeling guilty about being too militant or feministic.

One day I was searching MySpace and I stumbled upon NappyNap Nation page (I now realize that I was meant to find NappyNap Nation). Instinctively I felt safe and at home. I felt like I found my roots and I was not as disconnected as I had thought. For awhile I had been feeling displaced and abandoned. I sensed that I had found a group of women who have felt similar feelings of self-loathing and who were actively looking to heal the wounds that not only society but sometimes our own families and friends as well as ourselves may have inflicted. While I am constantly working on myself trying to find my voice and place in my community as well as in this world I feel motivated by NappyNap Nation. I am moved that there is a place where creativity and self-expression will be understood and nurtured. Just knowing that there are women who fight against what mass media and society deems as beauty inspires me.

I honestly have never seen so many black women who look like me in one place and that was exquisite to me. Without self-esteem purpose, meaning, and power is lost. NappyNap Nation is a place where self-love and worth is fostered. I am honored and blessed to be apart of such a movement. I dedicate my entire soul to the cause and open my heart to all my fellow NappyNap sistahs.

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