You all know I’ve been actively transitioning to more natural/non toxic products in my everyday life. As I run out of things I replace them with kinder alternatives. I’ve been searching for a staple natural deodorant for a while. I wrote about my love affair with Lone Body Care deodorant a while back and I do actually love them. But they aren’t available in stores. So if I’m a little absent minded and forget to order my next round, I’m SOL. I thought it’d be a good time to f[...]
Have you ever played that word association game? There are a couple of variations of it. I’m talking about when someone says a word and wants to know the first thing in opposition that comes to mind when you hear it. When someone says “illness”, the first thing I think of in opposition is “wellness”. I feel like my chronic illness diagnosis jettisoned me into the holistic wellness realm. Wellness is a state of being in good health. Illness is defined as a disease or period of sickn[...]
True life: I'm addicted to drinking water. I drink roughly a gallon of water a day. It's weird to say that because growing up, if I drank a cup of water a day it was considered a fantastic feat. If the normal human body is 60% water, my body was about 60% soda LOL. But now I absolutely adore water. I have a delivery service, that drops off 5 gallon bottles to my house monthly and I keep a few cases of 24 packs in my car. IDK if there’s a such thing as drinking too much but I may be te[...]
Since diagnosis (maybe even before) I’ve definitely been paying more attention to the things I put in and on my body. Toxins are everywhere and in everything. My goal would be to go completely natural and that’s going to take some time. But I have started being more cognizant of the products that I’m using. Since it’s Black History Month and with the Self Love Project going on, I thought this was the perfect time to highlight some Black Owned Natural Beauty Companies that are wo[...]
I had a pretty rough 2016, if I may say so myself. I was diagnosed with a rare autoimmune disease, prescribed a boatload of medications, given infusion treatments and still managed to be in the emergency room or urgent care on average once a month. And while those things felt overwhelming at the time, I think my most loathed aspect of the entire circumstance has been the acne that developed on my face as a result of the steroids. I grew up with pretty decent skin (shoutout to genetics). U[...]