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Hello, today we’ll be talking about six things that protect women’s hearts from cardiovascular disease.  I’ll be sharing with you why we’re losing and what will help. 

Lets get started with today’s episode that is about Heart Healthy hacks on women’s heart and how they can protect themselves from cardiovascular disease by incorporating 6 important things into their lives. Once you have been diagnosed with high blood pressure or high cholesterol, or you have both, you can improve your odds with these things. Of course, you know that heart disease is the number one killer of women.  

My girlfriend, at the time she was in her early 50s, one night woke up to extreme chest pains, she said it was like a bonfire burning within her chest, and could barely breathe.  She was having a heart attack. Test revealed her left anterior descending artery; the heart’s largest artery was 99.9 percent blocked. She never smoked, her cholesterol levels were normal, her weight and blood pressure were off just a little according to the BMI chart and the American Heart Association, but women have different types of muscle makeup. 

Included in our conversation today is how you can make some simple swaps to your meals that makes for a healthy heart. 

 First, I want you to know how friendships are excellent protections of women hearts and that you should know your health risk during pregnancy matters a lot. 

Where women hearts And High Blood Pressure care are concerned, we  must keep our waist circumference at 35 inches or below.  And, if that measurement is higher, then you're at a greater risk for heart disease. This is usually because we are overweight. 

We already know all these information and the need for women awareness, but Dr. Goldberg, medical director of NYU Langone Medical Center, overheard a doctor saying that women don't get heart disease. She immediately recognized what she had already knew that women needed to start a dialogue about their own unique risk factors, and created The Joan H. Tisch Center for Women’s Health.

 Why we’re losing the war against heart disease with  these 6 Things that Every Woman Should Know About Her Heart: - Thin Women Can Be At Risk.  Feeling Lonely And Depressed Isn't Good For Your Hea

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Welcome to Holistic Health for Women of Color, the space where stress relief, mindset shifts, and natural healing meet real life. I’m Donna Williams, Certified Holistic Health Coach, wellness guide, and a woman who navigated high blood pressure and medication side effects by embracing culturally rooted, evidence-informed holistic living. Now I help women of color reclaim their health on their own terms, with compassion, clarity, and tools that fit your life.

In each episode, you’ll get:
- Simple, science-backed guidance on food, herbs, and lifestyle
- Culturally relevant practices and ancestral wisdom you can trust
- Stress and nervous system support you can use today
- Mindset strategies and habit tools that actually stick
- Real stories, practical steps, and resources to keep you moving forward

Your health, your way. Let’s nourish your body, protect your peace, and thrive, without perfection, pressure, or shame.

If this episode supported you, follow the show and leave a review. For recipes, herb guides, and coaching, visit holisticbphealth.com, short for “holistic blood pressure health” and connect with me on Instagram.

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Yes, we are such sexual beings, but at times our health intervenes.  Let’s find out how to reclaim the erotic within us. Sexuality involves in giving and receiving sexual pleasure as well as reproduction. 

When I speak of the erotic, I speak of it as an assertion of lifeforce, of that creative energy empowered, the knowledge and use of which we are now reclaiming in our dancing, our loving, our work, our lives.

This culture of ours associates sexuality with genitalia, even though this expression involves much more than that.  We, as human beings, are the only primates whose sexual desires and functioning are not solely related to the reproductive cycle. 

With high blood pressure medications, and also with other chronic disease medications, sex, and other healthy sensations disappear as part of the side effects of treatments, and also part of the stresses of daily life.

When health returns, normal organ functioning performs naturally returning healthy God given sensations.

Our sexual organs were created as the most pleasurable part of our body to give us pleasure.  It is normal for us to have sex as it is for us to breathe or eat. So now with healthy bodies, awareness and clarity of mind what will be your new way of life.  

Married couples have discovered there are many ways to make love other than the missionary position. Like..

• Turning the lights down low, enjoying a drink or nightcap - it can be water, juice of whatever is your perfect choice - and together watch a favorite show.
• Never going to sleep without saying "I love you"
• Telling each other how nice you look
• Creating a private language
• Picking up a magazine he'd like at the newsstand
• Renewing her books at the library
• Fixing each other a favorite meal
• Reading, talking, and laughing together in bed
• Or just being together connecting to each other
• Or just sitting together in comfortable silence
• Doing the crossword puzzle together

Sometimes sex is just sleeping well beside the person you love, and drinking coffee together. Today set the intention to support healing and unlocking your power.

Focus on this affirmation today: "

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Welcome to Holistic Health for Women of Color, the space where stress relief, mindset shifts, and natural healing meet real life. I’m Donna Williams, Certified Holistic Health Coach, wellness guide, and a woman who navigated high blood pressure and medication side effects by embracing culturally rooted, evidence-informed holistic living. Now I help women of color reclaim their health on their own terms, with compassion, clarity, and tools that fit your life.

In each episode, you’ll get:
- Simple, science-backed guidance on food, herbs, and lifestyle
- Culturally relevant practices and ancestral wisdom you can trust
- Stress and nervous system support you can use today
- Mindset strategies and habit tools that actually stick
- Real stories, practical steps, and resources to keep you moving forward

Your health, your way. Let’s nourish your body, protect your peace, and thrive, without perfection, pressure, or shame.

If this episode supported you, follow the show and leave a review. For recipes, herb guides, and coaching, visit holisticbphealth.com, short for “holistic blood pressure health” and connect with me on Instagram.

Food, herbs, breath, and boundaries: your everyday toolkit.

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Hello, you’re listening to High Blood Pressure Wellness Lifestyle Podcast with Donna Williams.  I’m the creator of infoonhighbloodpressure.com a website that supports complementary alternative treatments for high blood pressure, and other chronic diseases that affects an extremely high number of my community, and also how our choice of diet profoundly influence our long-term health prospects. 

There are particular foods that not only taste amazing but can also help you to lose weight by lowering your blood sugar levels, balance your hormones and boost your metabolism. Because without these important pieces, any diet you try will never work. Your body will always fight back.

This is what I teach my amazing community. I show them how simple and EASY it is to reduce their weight, dependence on blood pressure medication, while fueling their body with nourishing, delicious foods. And this is exactly what I would love to show you.

There are some simple adjustments you can make to your wellness routine to get started on the right foot. Like caring for your gut microbiome; prioritize healthy eating; nurturing skincare routine; sleep hygiene; stop skipping breakfast; include strength training into your workouts.

Doing these relatively simple lifestyle changes has the power to transform your health and can literally add years to your life.

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Welcome to Holistic Health for Women of Color, the space where stress relief, mindset shifts, and natural healing meet real life. I’m Donna Williams, Certified Holistic Health Coach, wellness guide, and a woman who navigated high blood pressure and medication side effects by embracing culturally rooted, evidence-informed holistic living. Now I help women of color reclaim their health on their own terms, with compassion, clarity, and tools that fit your life.

In each episode, you’ll get:
- Simple, science-backed guidance on food, herbs, and lifestyle
- Culturally relevant practices and ancestral wisdom you can trust
- Stress and nervous system support you can use today
- Mindset strategies and habit tools that actually stick
- Real stories, practical steps, and resources to keep you moving forward

Your health, your way. Let’s nourish your body, protect your peace, and thrive, without perfection, pressure, or shame.

If this episode supported you, follow the show and leave a review. For recipes, herb guides, and coaching, visit holisticbphealth.com, short for “holistic blood pressure health” and connect with me on Instagram.

Food, herbs, breath, and boundaries: your everyday toolkit.

Educational only. Not medical adv...