Personal experience and academic work in health and healing has offered me the opportunity to learn and experience varied modalities and perspectives on the body. There is a fantastic advantage we share in living in global digital age, within a society which can often teeter the delicate balance of creating hysteria, hypochondria and massive, instantaneous miseducation, and empowering individuality to create their own health and beauty schematic. Our regiment for optimal health is as unique as our fingerprints, and deserves balanced consideration. I invite each of you to begin, or for some of you, enhance a self-engagement in collaboratively creating and pedagogy of care tailor-made to create your best self.
In America where intiatives are created as bridges, to gap issues of care access for evidenced health inequalities, these efforts often fall short in a failure to perform triage care to systems within our healthcare system, which will forever perpetuate fallacy unless the culture of “segmented selves” or disease and disability is challenged. The allopathic, American health system, although technologically sophisticated will be forever suspended in a state of sophomoric experimentalism, and poor outcomes of morbidity and practical efficacy. It is both promising and sad that in nearly five-hundred years of existence we are just recently at a stage in medical training that our future doctors are taught how to engage patients effectively and efficiently in a land that had the opportunity to divine from Native American and African practices, beginning to shed its arrogance and become inclusive of popular complementary practice. Allopathic medicine’s traditional counterparts, however, each share a similarity of viewing that body and its psycho-spiritual animations as a whole. Much like fashion, music, and even food; medicine, health, healing, and wellness is a culture. We have self, and community responsibility to begin to assist in altering its landscape to help reverse the systemic disparities which affect us all.
In many ways, our “whole selves” is a product of genetic, environmental, socio-economic, and cultural factors which determine our current state of being, whether “normative,” or imbalanced [i.e. “disease”.] Yet regardless of our place on this spectrum we are equally empowered to initiate and retain a personal pedagogy of care to outwit these odds. You are invited on a weekly journey of multi-cultural wholisitic self-improvement and awareness through thought and physical exercises, food and cooking demonstrations, complimentary medical practices in a friendly, conversational. Judgement free space. We will work cooperatively to create your individualized regiments. Please. share your thoughts, questions, testimonies, and even recipes, and I will share the expert advice of cohorts, practitioners, and friends, as we explore, learn, and heal together and have a great time in the process. I am looking forward to reading and seeing your responses. In the meantime, Be Well.
Love & Light,
Sheika
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