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Registration is OPEN for the Living Well Interview

Registration is OPEN for the Living Well Interview Series and it's coming up just around the corner! 🤩

I hear so many stories of people who have just started learning that food has no moral value or that they can eat their cultural foods and be at peace with their body and have no idea where to start. It's so easy to get all this great information from social media, but then what?

Well that's what @memeinge created this summit for! There will be 20 amazing speakers (including me) that I am honored to be presenting alongside. Some topics include: Self-Compassion for Your Health with @rachel_tenny, Working Through Body Grief with @bodyimagewithbri, and Reclaiming Your Self-Trust from Diet Culture with @happyshapesnaomi 😮 and so many more!

The summit will kick off on October 25 and it's going to be 4 action-packed days that you won't want to miss.

The best part of all of this!? It's FREE 🙉 I'm not even joking.

Go to the link in my bio to sign up.

Can't wait to see you there 😊

When you think of negative body image, what comes

When you think of negative body image, what comes to mind?

What I typically hear is someone who is unhappy with their body and wants to lose weight mostly related to societal, familial, and/or cultural norms.

What if I told you that there's more to body image than that? Negative body image can be struggling with natural hair, weaves, braids, wigs, etc. Negative body image can be struggling with you feeling that your skin tone is too dark or too light (colorism). It can be a desire to gain weight, a desire to have straight teeth, struggles with a disability, and so much more.

When we view negative body image as one thing, we leave SO many people out of the narrative. Clinicians, open your mind to more body image struggles.

And for those of you who are struggling, I see you and I'm here if you need to talk.

What is your initial response to this quote? Is it

What is your initial response to this quote? Is it "Wow! I can relate to that"? Is it "You can go out to run in whatever you want!"? Or is it "Yeah, you probably shouldn't wear that."?

Anytime I hear something like this, my initial reaction is to console and say "do whatever you want", but is that actually helpful? I don't know what it's like to live in this world as a fat person or someone in a larger body. But I do know what it's like to live in this world as a Black person... and it's not great.

This place is not made for fat people. So instead of telling you to do whatever you want and not care about what other people think, I will sit with you in the discomfort as best I can knowing that I can not understand fully what it's like to live in a fat body. And I will sit with you while you think about whether or not going out for a run in your sports bra is something you want to challenge at this time because that is not a decision I can make for you, but I will support you every step of the way in whatever you choose.

And if your response is the last one, you need to do some work.

Did you have a weekend where all you did was lie a

Did you have a weekend where all you did was lie around? Maybe you planned on going for a walk, but you were too tired today. Or you had a goal to clean the house and you just couldn't get to it (that one's me! 🙋🏾‍♀️)

It's okay to take a day, week, month, year to rest if that's what you need.

Burnout is real... mental.. physical.. I took some time away from posting on Instagram because posting and talking about racism is exhausting. And then those posts invite conversations which are exhausting even if they're good, then I also have to live it in my every day life. So I rested from what I could. Because I allowed myself to rest, I was able to process, clear, and come back.

Rest is underrated.
Rest.
And give yourself some grace.

How many ridiculous things like this have you hear

How many ridiculous things like this have you heard?

BIPOC are already excluded from so many situations for no reason other than the fact that we aren't white. Then we're told to ditch our cultural foods and eat what they're eating so we can "fit in" and be "healthy". Nonsense.

I'm here to tell you that you that that does not need to happen! I know that it's so easy for someone on social media to tell you to just embrace your cultural foods and uproot white supremacy. And I know that it's not easy! We have to struggle with these messages day in and day out reminding us that we're "different" and telling us that we're not good enough.

It takes constant work to get to the point where you can truly embrace yourself for who you are. And it's something that I can support you with!

You can work with me individually to start embracing your foods and rejecting the shame that has been put on you.

I also have a FREE Facebook group for people struggling with this same thing so you can join for a community to support you. Link is in my bio. Message me for more info 😘

A reminder for the mid-week: you are enough.

A reminder for the mid-week: you are enough.

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