“We Should be Able to Have Babies Like White People.”: A Beauty Shop Reflection on Race, Class and Infertility

A recent study suggests that Black women may be twice as likely as White women to have fertility problems but are far less likely to seek or receive infertility treatment. I remember being so arrog...

Cultural Stigma, Mental Wellness and One Black Woman’s Audacity to Heal

Culture is the learned system of shared meanings of identity and community from an exclusive group. Culture is what inspires our thinking, speaking and actions. Culture is highly influential within...

What Does it Mean to Decolonize Wellness?

When I did that, I figured out that it not that my blog is missing something. It is that almost everything in the wellness space is curate by mostly white women. I, and most other people, am traine...

This one tool could change your approach to self care!

Over the years I have leaned how important it is to refresh your memory of the plans you’ve set for yourself. Not only does it help you stay motivated and focused, it allows you to really take note...

Crashing Creative Anxiety

Creative anxiety can be described as the state of distress that impedes progress of expression of insight or creative thought. I had to construct this definition because the concept is relatively u...

House Cleansing: A Checklist for Clearing Bad Energy from Your Home

Your home should be your safe haven -- the place where you feel relaxed, happy, and at peace. But when bad energy is lingering around, your home can quickly become the complete opposite -- a place ...

Smudging Your Home

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How to Boost Your Immune System

It seems we don’t pay our immune systems much attention until something is coming for it. When there’s no imminent danger we carry on, business as usual while our loyal immune system does what it d...

4 Fit Tips For #QuarantineLife

‘WFH’ doesn’t only reference the inbox of full emails waiting to be answered each morning in your home office. For optimal physical and mental health, working out while “safer at home” needs to be ...

How Self Care Boosts Productivity

So if you've been killing yourself to "feel productive", but in reality when you're drowning in stress, you're in dire need of self care! Because reaching a point when your mind is too restless to ...

Addressing Minority Health

Healthy equity means that everyone has the same equal opportunity to be as healthy as possible. One’s ability to access food and health care should not be based on race or socioeconomic status. How...

Self-Care For An Introverts' Mind, Body, & Soul

Taking care of yourself physically, mentally, and emotionally is essential for everyone. However, some things that work as self-care for extroverts – like relaxing with a group of friends – might n...

Books To Boost Your Mood & Aspirations

The current health care crisis appears to be grinding the world to a halt. So, if the intense pressure of working remotely, homeschooling and maintaining a shred of self-care is starting to take a ...