Category: Black Women Healing
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They Get Rich, We Stay Sick: The Vicious Cycle of the US Healthcare System
“Our profitable disease care system doesn’t want you to die. It doesn’t want you to get well. It just wants you to keep coming back” Escape Fire Movie The US healthcare system is rampant with racism, and is a direct reflection of the structural, systemic, and institutional racism embedded in the fabric of American society. […]
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Melanin Rich Wellness: The Benefits of an Enema
As a Holistic Health Practitioner, my health and the health of my community is my number one priority. I am always looking for ways to improve my health and optimize the functioning of my body, particularly the systems that are designed to remove toxins and waste from the body… I’ll just cut to the chase. […]
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The Black Woman’s Womb, The White Man’s Playground: The Truth About Hysterectomies
“History, despite its wrenching pain cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage need not be lived again” Maya Angelou Hysterectomies run in my maternal line. My grandmother, mother and aunt have all had partial or full hysterectomies. And no one seems to think it’s a big deal. They appear to be just as insignificant […]
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One of the Best Kept Secrets in Medicine
“America’s health care system is neither, healthy, caring, nor a system” Walter Cronkite By definition, a secret is, “something that is kept unknown or unseen by others” or “something taken to be a key to a desired end.” The US Health Care System has kept us mentally paralyzed when it comes to making decisions about […]
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My Intermittent Fasting Journey
This is Chapter 1 from my upcoming book, “The Black Girl’s Guide to Intermittent Fasting and Nutrition“ “My gran told me that people are supposed to struggle. If you don’t, how would you know that you won” K. Zauditu Selassie I’m no stranger to fasting. Growing up in the COGIC church, I learned all about […]
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I Still Do Not Consent: The Message Of The Unvaxx’d
“The opposite of courage is not cowardness but conformity” Robert Anthony On July 19th, I wrote a blog titled, “I Do Not Consent: My Three Reasons for Not Getting the COVID “Vaccine”. To read that blog, click HERE. Nearly 6 moths later, and I still do not consent. I believe it is time to revisit […]
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Birth Control & Black Womanhood
“They are afraid a woman can be this strong. This color. This soft. This powerful” Ijeoma Umebinyuo In 2016, I decided that I was done with birth control. I did not want to put anything that was man made or altered by man in my body any longer. I had stopped putting a perm in […]
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The Power of a 24-Hour Fast
“Periodic fasting can help clear up the mind and strengthen the body and the spirit” Ezra Taft Benson “Instead of medicine, fast for a day” Plutarch Life can become quite overwhelming and easily overburden us. It can easily feel as if we are drowning in a sea of obligations and duties. We fail to prioritize […]
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Get Yo Life: 4 Ways to Eliminate Every Day Stressors
“It’s not the load that breaks you down. It’s the way you carry it” Lena Horne Stress is the normal and natural response of our bodies to survive an impending physical danger. The sympathetic nervous system is stimulated. Adrenaline and cortisol floods the body. Our blood pressure spikes, the heart beats faster, our senses become […]
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Seasonal Depression in the Black Community
“Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn, or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, gratitude” Denis Waitley Seasonal depression, also called Seasonal Affective Disorder is a real condition that affects many Melanin Rich people. Understanding what is going on with our bodies and minds in relation to […]