Just Your Average Black Woman Going Through Life
The human body is a wonderful thing yet so complicated. We must make sure we take care of it as best we can along with going through the many trials life brings. So many people are dealing with various medical conditions and it’s often suggested to adjust food choices to manage symptoms when one has…
Each year for the last 9 years, I have created my annual list of goals before the new year starts, and this year I made a goal to get 2 full body massages to help reset my body in the first and second half of the year. I created this goal because I love…
I am not a doctor or Nurse, but I am a health care professional and as an Occupational Therapist I service adult patients alongside them. At a doctor’s request for rehabilitative services, I evaluate several skills including performance of basic self-care tasks, getting in and out of the bed, standing and transferring to various…
July is National Minority Mental Health Month. This month brings awareness to the barrier to resources affecting many communities, especially that of Black, Brown, and Natives. Now as an Occupational Therapist, we can work in facilities that service people with mental illnesses and although I do not work full time with this population, as…
Recently, my husband and I had a conversation about women having a career and then having to come home to another job of cooking/cleaning/raising children versus women who are stay at home. In the past generations, mostly with two parent household families before the 1980s, women usually stayed at home while the men worked…
The great Olivia Pope, oh sorry, I mean Kerry Washington has blessed us with a new show starring herself along with actor Delroy Lindo titled “Unprisoned”. Based on a true story, the show centers around Paige (Washington) a therapist and single mother to a teenage son and her father, Edwin (Lindo), who was released from…
I can officially say I am in my 30s as I will be 35 years old this year. Now I don’t know about you but as young as I still look and somedays as young as I still feel, I know my body is aging. Do you remember being 5 years old and you accidently…
It is Women’s History Month and as women we go through so much especially when it comes to our reproductive system. Whether it’s bad menstrual cramps, infertility, cysts, fibroids, and/or something else, these are all things common to us females. Now for me, other than the first 5 months after starting my menstrual cycle as…