Essays by Shatrasha Butler
55 essays, and a new one every week.
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When Control Feels Like Faith…Until It Doesn’t
I grew up in a two-parent household. We were financially secure. I never felt like we were scraping by or living in scarcity. There was no obvious reason for me to carry financial fear.And...
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When Your Growth Feels Like an Attack: Navigating Parents, Holidays, and the Right to Evolve
The holidays have a way of putting all the versions of us in the same room, the child our parents remember, the adult we’ve become, and the person we’re still trying to grow into....
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If “Time Flying,” It’s Because Someone Else Owns It
You know who says “time flies”?The ones who don’t actually control their time.They say “it goes by fast” when talking about life, or “they grow up so quick” when talking about their kids, but...
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Handle “Different” With Care
We love to celebrate innovation after the world finally understands it. But before the statues, the textbooks, and the TED Talks, most brilliance was misunderstood, labeled, or ignored. This isn’t new. It’s a cycle....
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My Dealer Wears a Smile and Sells Cupcakes
Sugar is an addiction like anything else. It may not destroy lives the way drugs or alcohol can. I’m not stealing from people or lying to get my next fix. But the battle, the...
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The Monument of You
Loneliness and isolation are not always random. More often, they’re the bill that comes due when you’ve spent all your time investing only in yourself. If you spend a week doing whatever you want,...
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When Belonging Becomes a Battle: What Unhealed Abandonment Can Look Like
Have you ever met someone who didn’t quite seem to know how to exist in platonic relationships?Someone who, without realizing it, tried to make themselves a key character in a story that already had...
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Ready Isn’t a Ceiling, It’s a Choice
I used to think “ready” was a place you arrived at. Like some ceiling you’d finally break through the day when you suddenly had enough money, enough time, enough confidence, enough credentials. I waited...
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The Power of Knowing Your Value
Knowing your value is one of the most powerful things you can ever master.If I could bottle it up and inject it into people, I would. Just a small dose of that knowing could...
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The Petty Power Problem
Why is it that when people have just a modicum of authority, they often overdo it? You see it in the flight attendant who talks down to passengers as though they’ve never flown before....
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The Cape Is in the Closet…Somewhere
You ever have one of those weekends where everything you meant to do… just didn’t happen?I was supposed to do my budget.Prep my taxes.Upload the legal templates to my site.Handle all the things that...
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Your Kid’s Schedule Is Gonna Kill You and Your Wallet
(Are Activities a Blessing or a Trap?) Not preachy. Not judgy. Just a real question:Are we doing this for them… or for everybody else?At some point, we all got swept up in it.The belief...
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