Just Your Average Black Woman Going Through Life
It was the year 2016, I had just come back from vacation and the movie “Suicide Squad” was about to leave theatres. I was still off from work, so I decided to catch the matinee showing by myself. My initial feelings were ones of fear, so I sat closer to the top, in an…
When you are a child starting school, you begin to meet other kids, making friends. During this time everyone is your friend, and the little fights are usually related to toys. As you continue to grow older in grade, middle, and high school, you meet friends but then there comes a point of teasing and…
What comes to mind when you hear the word sisterhood? In Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary it is defined as “a state of being a sister; a community or society of sisters; or the solidarity of women based on shared conditions, experiences, and concerns.” If you look at the last definition of shared conditions and experiences, then you…
I love watching movies and television shows of all genres, but comedies are my favorite. I love comedies about coming of age, romance, action, dark/suspense, and any other type there may be. Some of the comedic shows I enjoyed watching recently were Average Joe (BET+), The Horror of Dolores Roach (Amazon Prime), The Upshaws…
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…