Welcome to #KLowInspires

After my diagnosis, I was searching for some support to see how young black women like me were living and surviving life with HIV. While on my search, I found a new family within a secret online group of women from all over the country living with HIV. The group is based out of Atlanta so I could meet some of the women in person. We laugh, cry, and shout together. We support and pray with one another in our time of need. We occasionally meet up for dinner, movies, bowling, and we attend educational events in the community. We are always sharing love and support to one another in the group.   There are always conferences for people living with HIV (PLWH). This summer I got a chance to attend my first one. Positive Living Conference held yearly in September in Fort Walton Beach, FL. I got my whole life that weekend. We networked and added new women to our online support group. I met new people just from sitting around the pool, listening to karaoke, a...

I WAS ALWAYS trusting people. I gave you my trust until you gave me a reason not to trust you. It did not always serve me right trusting people I didn't know so freely. But that was just who I was. Always wanting to see the good in others even when they showed me their bad side. Life after my diagnosis taught me to trust nothing and watch everyone. I hate that my diagnosis has changed me and made me feel this way but it's where I'm at now. I don't know how to get back to trusting others. Even when I think I trust someone that little voice in the back of my head starts saying things like "they are using you, they are lying don't believe that, they only want what they can get from you and then they'll be gone." I do want to get back to trusting others as of right now it's a slow process. Especially since I've been burned by people, I thought would never do me wrong. Never the less the show must go on. I'll keep praying and working on ...