5 Reasons Why You Need A Wellness Retreat
Stepping away from your day-to-day routine is essential for rejuvenating your mind. Regular vacations can sometimes become clouded with planning activities, posting pictures on social media, and shopping till sundown. By the time you get back home, you're wondering if it was a vacation at all! Wellness retreats mainly focus on building your mental health and helping your body experience that extra TLC. Don't get me wrong, I enjoy fruity drinks and poolside parties too.But sometimes, your body needs peace instead of a turn-up.
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Where Are All The Black People In Phoenix, Arizona?
The title of this blog is Where Are All The Black People In Phoenix, AZ? I originally wrote this blog in 2020; well, let us fast forward two years throw in a pandemic, where we were quarantined and isolated. Now that outside is back open; we can maneuver with COVID. Check out my NEWEST blog to see what new black businesses have opened and where you can build your professional network.
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ATTITUDE
I have been to many conferences throughout my life, from business conferences to professional development conferences, leadership conferences, and health equity conferences. Still, this conference is unique because it was for black women curated by a black woman and the focus was OUR mental health.
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Why You Need An Adzenture Yoga & Wellness Retreat!
Yoga & Wellness Retreat in Lovely Sedona, Arizona. Instead of a Girls Trip try a Yoga & Wellness Retreat!
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I need a therapist! How do I find one?
Are you stressed, depressed, or have anxiety? Are you dealing with micro-aggressions at work or in the community, discrimination because of how you look, grief, or trauma? I have experienced most of these things. May is mental health awareness month, and I thought 🙇🏾💭 it would be good to dive into how to access therapy and mental health services.
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4 Things You Need To Know Before You Decide To Freeze Your Eggs
At my annual OBGYN appt, she asked me, "So have you thought about having children"? I was like, yes, I thought about it...lol, but it takes 2, and I am single as a dollar bill, then she said, "Well, you should consider freezing your eggs." "What"? "Freeze my eggs"?...lol she said, "Yes," she explained to me as you age, your egg count decreases, and the chances of you having a baby as you age diminish.
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How Fasting Lead Me to Create My Vision Board
I reflected on the year of 2017, the milestones, setbacks, breakups, and joyous occasions that took place that year. I then was lead to ask questions I wanted to know from God and what he wants me to do in the current year of 2018. My intention for the last 3 years was to hear from God, which I asked for when I began my fast. I wanted to hear from God, release direction for decisions, and lose bonds (things that no longer served me or had a purpose in my life).
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2020...What Did It Bring Out Of You?
As we come to the end of the year 2020 will go down in the history books as the year of the pandemic, well I definitely don’t have to rehash it all because if you are reading this you experienced all of 2020,
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Prospering in a Pandemic
I told my friend that 2020 was LIT 🔥 Jan 1-March 16th after March 16th, 2020 has digressed and has been all downhill. This COVID19 pandemic has taken lives, shut down businesses temporarily, permanently closed businesses, 🥺 even with assistance from the federal government with economic disaster loans, and PPP funding some businesses have had to pivot while others had to furlough, layoff, or terminate their employees permanently. It is now Oct 2020 the 4th quarter summer has come and gone and now it is fall.
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To Live or Die: Black Maternal Death
I am a black woman and if I became pregnant go into labor to give birth I would have a higher percentage of not making it out alive. I want to have a baby 👶🏾 but will my baby be motherless or die along with me? Black Maternal Health….
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Black Don’t Crack
Have you ever heard the term “Black Don’t Crack?” Are you wearing a clown face? Clowns wear make-up and paint a smile on they face, but deep down on the inside they are depressed or having suicidal thoughts. July is Mental Health Minority Awareness Month and I wanted to discuss the elephant in the room especially now with the pandemic and racial unrest.
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Free-dom-Free-ish-Free
Our freedom has been looted, our lives have been looted, our finances have been looted, our health have been looted, our education have been looted our businesses have been looted, our home ownership have been looted and future generations are being looted. Are we free?
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I CAN'T BREATHE
His last words before he departed this earth was “I can’t breathe”. It is like a nightmare or scary movie that you
know the ending shouldn’t go that way, but it does anyway. In a matter of minutes a child lost their father, a wife became a widow, a mother and father has to bury their child, a brother or sister lost their sibling, and the community reacts by protest, outcry and hashtags on social media.
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Free Your Mind
How many times in your black household have you heard, “What happens in this house stays in this house”. Their it is there is the STIGMA the “disgrace”. If your depression, molestation, or anxiety can’t leave the house, how are you supposed to open up and talk to a therapist or psychiatrist. Well that generational curse of thinking has got to be broken, of course some family matters are private but some things needs to be addressed…….
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Gratitude is so Gangster
How have you expressed gratitude during this shut down? What are you thankful for?
Before COVID-19 I had my annual performance review…..
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Tips for Working From Home
Sooooooo when the clock struck 12 am 🕕 on Jan 1st 2020 who would of thought 2 months later, we would be….
You may not like working from home but look at the benefits from working from home!
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Quarantine Life: Social Distancing Our New Normal
We have gone from Brunch on Sunday’s to DJ DNice IG Live #ClubQuarantine from in person gatherings to gathering virtually social distancing has become our new normal in 2020!
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Where Are The Black People in Phoenix AZ?
When I tell people, where I’m from the first thing they say is, “WOW” 😮 or “OMG you are from here”? Or “You are the first native that I ever met that was born and raised here”, or “you are number 7 , you are the 7th native that I have met”. I even got an “Oh I’m sorry”
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The Photograph
Black Love Is alive and well and it doesn’t have to be filled with abuse, negativity or trauma.
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