Project BLACCK

It's February which means we are in the season of LOVE! Happy Valentine's Day and Black History Month. In this episode, we touch on self-love, body positivity, and how the love of self affects our ability to love our community and impacts how we show love to those around us!

We finally uploaded our genuine reactions, thoughts, and feelings about the inauguration as well Biden's promises as president. 

Get ready for another year of Project BLACCK! Tune in for more episodes about issues that impact our health and everyday life. 

In this episode, Project BLACCK reflects on challenges, opportunities, and what we're looking forward to for the next year and beyond. Thank you to all who have shown love and support during this journey. Love and light to you all. We will see you in 2021!

In Episode 14: Living Well with Marlene Boyette, we highlight the following: what is wellness, what does wellness look like, tips on how to live well during difficult times, and maintaining wellness practices throughout our day to day lives. We're joined by Marlene Boyette, a Boston-based 300 HR Trauma-Informed Yoga, and Wellness Practitioner. Marlene aims to make yoga, healing, and wellness more accessible to underserved people and communities, highlighting these practices as radical acts of resistance, self-care, and self-preservation. In the episode, she shares her wellness knowledge and practices as a teacher, yogini, facilitator, and disruptor. 

In this episode we talk about prepping for the holidays. There’s so much to talk about when it comes to holiday prep, however, in this discussion we talk about what it means to prep your mental health for the Winter and Holiday season. We are joined by our amazing guest speaker Celeste Viciere, also known as Celeste the Therapist. Tune in as we discuss topics such as seasonal depression, setting boundaries, dealing with feelings of loneliness during a Pandemic and also new tools you can add to your wellness toolbox.

Election results are in and we're here to talk about it! Join us as we discuss our feels about all the things prior, during, and after the big event.  We share our process and thoughts on early voting, poll lines and accessibility, voter demographics, values, celebrities with political stances and so much more! 

Lots of laughs and giggles as we talk about how identity is performed through food in different areas of our lives!

In this episode we talk about our favorite things about Fall and the different levels of care. Stress has a huge impact on our bodies, and with all that is going on in our own lives and in our world, it’s essential to practice care. We love the illustration created by Deanna Zandt on “The Unspoken Complexity of Self-Care.” In addition to helping us expand our definition of self-care, they also challenge us to think about other levels of care such as communal care and structural care. Join us we continue to build upon our understanding of care. 

In episode 9, we're back and joined by two special guests, Jalyce and Diamond, two of Bre's colleagues and co-medical students who join to discuss the differences between medicine and public health from the perspectives of first year medical students who are interested in addressing health inequities . We also discuss where there are opportunities for synergy between public health and medicine, and what we can all do in our careers to bridge these two professions.  We also weigh in on the tragic loss of Chadwick Boseman and share how medical students can engage in self-care during medical school.