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Truth About Resilience, Reflection, Self Love, and Growth

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The Truth About Resilience, Reflection, Self Love, and Growth You’re never too old to learn life lessons, grow, or reinvent yourself, even if your confidence is shattered from past life trauma. You can learn from it or let it destroy your self esteem. Become who your past self meant for you to be and choose to focus on the lesson rather than just the pain, which allows you to grow. Rebuilding involves rediscovering your true identity beneath the trauma. New things and people come a long. But you got to rebuild yourself and find your true self you want to be. When you start doing good with that, you’ll live and forget the trauma, it won’t be fully but you’ll remember the lesson that the Lord up above put upon you. Things don’t work out sometimes because He above has something better for you in the future as long as you self love yourself for who you are. Life lessons learned become part of your strength, and the pain diminishes over time. 

Grandma's Homemade Southern Fried Okra Recipe

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My Grandma's Homemade Crispy Southern Pan Fried Okra Recipe  Ingredients: 2 pounds fresh okra, sliced into 1/2"-inch bite-sized rounds 2 large eggs, beaten (room temperature) 2 cups whole milk or buttermilk (room temperature) 2 cups yellow cornmeal 2 tsp salt 1 tsp black pepper 2 tsp garlic powder (optional) Cooking oil for frying (vegetable or pork oil) How To Make Best Pan Fried Okra : Best Homemade Fried Okra Recipe This was my Grandma 's old fashioned southern way of frying okra, she was raised in Louisiana:  First, wash, trim, and slice the okra. Then thoroughly combine the already-beaten egg and the milk in a large bowl. Soak the okra in the room-temperature egg and milk mixture, never cold but only room temperature. Soak the okra for about 15 minutes (hopefully okra is already tender when bought). In another bowl, mix the yellow cornmeal, salt, pepper, and garlic powder. Heat your preferred cooking oil in a skillet (cast iron is always BEST) over medium-high heat (a...