Self Love Lounge

 As 2020 comes to a close, we can all acknowledge that we are currently still in a massive world awakening with COVID-19 while we STILL struggle with the implications of systemic racism and grieve murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Aumaud Aubrey and countless other black lives lost to police violence. As 2020 comes to a close, we can ALSO acknowledge that 2020 brought us all lessons learned, memories made and moments shared too. For many of us, 2020 will go down as the worst year in the living memory so tune into this special Bidding farewell to 2020! 

 Seasonal depression has arrived; meaning days are heavier, temperatures are colder and we might even feel overwhelmed by our busy schedules and overloading deadlines. Let's change that. Lisa the Clinical Nutritionist, Functional Medicine Writer, and natural medicine advocate believes that knowledge is the first step to empowerment. If you are resonating with this, here are some tips and tricks to truly feeling healthy again. 

As an energy exchange, please rate, review and write a loving note to host Areena Antoine on Spotify, Apple Podcast and All major Platforms.

Why is it so hard to maintain a best friend? Or better yet, What is a best friend? Do you remember your first friendship heartbreak, what did you learn and how did you overcome it? How do you spot a toxic friend? Can you create boundaries in current friendships? Your coach, your host, and your homie, Jenna Arora and your SLL Host and girl Areena Antoine dive deep on the topic of friendship. 

25 years old, Gigi Gill, born Gurinder Gill opens a dialogue about the stigma of immigration, navigating cultural discrimination, and chasing her dream in the acting industry. She's got a degree, shortly studied theatre, became an actress and recently started a Youtube Channel! She is thrilled to be a part of the Self Love Lounge Podcast because of the amazing message it sends to young girls, and she hopes she can be a guiding voice to those seeking advice.

21 year old, Roya Pishvaei lets us inside the high-artistic competitive world of dance. She opens up about clout cliques, false preaching, the superficiality of expectations, and many other difficulties she learned to overcome within the dance industry. Roya is a professional dancer and still working hard to make a name for herself in the industry. In short, Roya Pishvaei is a choreographer, teacher, dancer, student, and now my friend who's living a crazy epic dance life! 

** Trigger Warning** This episode touches on mental health, sexual abuse, and assault. These detrimental experiences shaped Whytli Rogers life as she navigates her journey to self-love. Whytli Rogers is a certified life coach, mental health advocate, and survivor of sexual and mental abuse. Join us as we uncover her empowering story of how she overcame what almost killed her. 

If you can make mistakes and not have people attribute your behavior to flaws in your racial/gender group, take one step forward and tune into this episode. This episode will walk you down to the high school hallways of two labeled “white-washed” girls from different schools and different experiences uncovering a mutual feeling of confusion within their own racial identity.

You are listening to the very first episode of Self Love Lounge season 1 .  Here is a  glimpse of the reality of being a girl in our generation and how it takes all of you to empower somebody for the purpose of our next generation and for the purpose of the next episode!