Harmonize Your Life: Conversation on Self-Care for Women of Color

Global pandemic, social unrest, racial pandemic, election fatigue, loss, grief, and financial stress. Dr. Anastasia Alvarado, of View Point Mental Health discusses the stress, anxiety, and trauma associated with these experiences. This empowering self-care conversation will empower you to acknowledge and name your feelings, create safe spaces, eliminate toxicity, nourish your body, make healthier choices, breathe, and protect your peace.

Dr. Talaya Clark, family medicine physician at Atrium Health Biddle Point in Charlotte. Listen as Dr. Clark educates us on the role of nutrition in the protection against common diseases affecting African American women. Dr. Clark candidly shares her personal experience with Covid-19 and how important nutrition and self-care practices are to our overall health and recovery process.

Many times, we are overly focused on achievement, amassing wealth, work and the needs of family and friends that we fail to replenish our souls. Join me and Jennifer Watley Maxell, wife, mother, preacher, pastor and founder of the Ellipsis Women's Conference in a discussion about Sabbath as an act of resistance to the consumer culture that is ravishing our souls.

Dr. Valerie Bridgeman is Dean and Vice President of Academic Affairs, and Associate Professor of Homiletics and Hebrew Bible at Methodist Theological School of Ohio. She also is founding president and CEO of WomanPreach! Inc. Listen as we discuss why self-care must be practiced holistically to address all of life, spiritually, emotionally, physically, financially and within our relationships.

Roslyn D. Bogle is Certified Master Trainer with 25 years of experience in learning development training and sales. Listen as Roslyn candidly discusses the struggles of her ADHD diagnosis. Roslyn gives hope to women 50 plus as she shares the strategies and skills she has developed through years of counseling, therapy, mental health education and a network of supportive family and girlfriends.

Michelle Marks-Osborne is the owner of The Teatotaler Company and a 3rd generation tea drinker. The Teatotaler Company specializes in loose teas and tisanes (herbals) with ingredients from Egypt, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Rwanda, Morocco, and South Africa. Join me and Michelle in a refreshing conversation about self-care and her creative, lovingly hand-blended teas that promise to soothe your soul and spirit. 

Dr. Sarah Williams of Covenant Way Wellness is a Licensed and Board Certified Psychotherapist with a Speciality in Grief and Trauma. As a result of her own trauma she is devoted to helping others heal through Clinical Mental Health Counseling, Holistic Workshops, Yoga, Meditation, and Creative Therapy.  Listen as Dr. Sarah shares her experience with grief and depression and self-care strategies for managing holiday grief and depression. 

Join me and Sherell Vicks-Crawford, Internal Medicine Physician in a discussion about the stress and impact of the Covid-19 Virus. Listen as Dr. Crawford teaches how to boost the immune system, continue routine care, practice preventive care, and stay healthy in a pandemic.

"The day I told him I was leaving, was the day he tried to kill me." Tamiko Lowry-Pugh shares her story of survival which led to the advocacy work of The Still Standing Alliance. Listen as Tamiko educates us on the signs of unhealthy relationships, self-love, self-care, survivor support, awareness, and prevention of domestic violence.