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Nurturing Mental Health and Aging

Nurturing Mental Health and Aging: A Holistic Approach for Black Women and Families As we journey through life, our mental health becomes an increasingly vital aspect of our overall well-being. The unique experiences faced by Black women and their families bring additional dimensions to the conversation surrounding mental health and aging. This article aims to Continue Reading

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Adult Nutrition & Chronic Disease

Listen to the article. As we age, a healthy approach to adult nutrition becomes much more important to maintain overall well-being. Chronic conditions such as heart disease, cancer, stroke, hypertension and diabetes have continued to increase over the years among adults. Studies have shown that about one half of U.S. adults currently have one of Continue Reading

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Nutrition & Sexual Health: How They Are Connected

Sexual health is a delicate topic and one that isn’t usually the first to come up in conversation. An important aspect of our overall being, sexual health often times may be the last thing we acknowledge when problems arise due to shame, embarrassment, confusion, or other personal reasons. A variety of factors can come into Continue Reading

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Pregnancy and Hair Health

How to maintain our crown while pregnant Pregnancy is a wonderful time filled with endless emotional and physical changes. Your body does a stellar job creating a safe haven for your baby while leaving you with the remnants to survive on. Or should I say leaving your hair with the remnants to survive on. Let’s Continue Reading

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Our Children’s Health: Giving Them a Strong Start

As parents, we want our children to be happy and healthy. Fortunately, there are steps we can take to ensure their healthy growth and development of our kids. As we observe Every Child Health Week from April 26th – April 30th, let’s look more closely at some steps we can take to maintain our children’s Continue Reading

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Embrace the Present

So, I had my son in 2010. It was at that moment I decided I had to turn my life around. I started researching how to start a business, relocated independently as a single mother with my son and suddenly got this great idea to write a book.  Every time I started to type my Continue Reading

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Partner Exercises: Get Motivated to Move w/ Friends!

Summertime is one of the best times to get together with family and friends and encourage one another to stay active. Partner or group workouts don’t always have to be complicated or full of crazy moves. Even performing the same movement with your partner and adding small variations to common exercises can be enough to Continue Reading

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A Mother’s Love: Dealing with Postpartum Depression

A Mother’s Love: Dealing with Postpartum Depression By Sheniqka Miller A mother’s love is eternal. She can love her child more than anything. Motherhood is one of the most important parts of a woman’s life, and it requires a lot of love, dedication, commitment and energy. What happens when a mother knows these things but Continue Reading

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Healing Our Broken Pieces

By Lisa Smithen Just a couple weeks ago I broke a container and glass shattered and went everywhere, resulting in me spending a lot of already limited time cleaning up the area to ensure that no one got hurt by the jagged edges or fell over the mess that I had made. Life is like Continue Reading

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