Category: Advocate For Health & Wellness
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ATasteOfFlava|The Break Through |Maybe It’s Time To Live Again
Some mornings hit differently. Not because life suddenly became easy… but because hope quietly returned. After weeks of pain, frustration, pushing through, and finally accepting help, today feels softer. Calmer. Clearer. I’m learning that healing sometimes begins the moment you stop pretending you’re okay and allow yourself to move toward relief. One cloudy Seattle morning…
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H&W|Next Hip Replacement Surgery?
Sometimes our bodies force us to slow down long before our minds are ready. The last two weeks I felt hopeful starting a new physical therapy journey… but instead of feeling stronger, my body started reacting in ways that left me discouraged, uncomfortable, and uncertain about what the next step should be. Today’s Monday H&W…
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H&W|Eating Better Starts with Preparing Better
🌻 Health & Wellness with Flava: Eating Better Starts with Preparing Better Let me be real with you… Flava needs a new routine. Most mornings, I’m pushing myself just to get out the door — grabbing whatever’s closest, whether it’s a couple mini muffins or something that barely qualifies as breakfast. And let’s be honest… that’s…
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ASipOfFlava|Life in Rhythms, Seasonings, and Flow
A Sip of Flava: Life in Rhythms, Seasonings, and Flow I’ve never experienced life in straight lines. I experience it in rhythms. In seasonings. In flow. Some people move through life by calendars and deadlines. I move by feeling — by when something is ready, when it needs to simmer, and when it’s time to…
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H&W |Speak Life Into…
Health & Wellness: Speaking Life Into Yourself and Others There is a form of nourishment we don’t talk about enough — and it doesn’t come from food, supplements, or exercise. It comes from words. The words we speak to ourselves. The words we speak over others. And the words spoken into us — especially when…
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RealTalk|🌻 The Recipe for “Normal” — According to a Seasoned Soul
🌻 The Recipe for “Normal” — According to a Seasoned Soul Some lady said this morning that normal is whatever works for each individual. And I sat there thinking… well, that sure opens Pandora’s gray-area box, doesn’t it? Because if everything can be normal, then nothing really is. Yet here we are — living in a…
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ATasteOfFlava|My Body is Struggling 🙁
Sometimes the hardest thing to admit is that your body is struggling while your mind is still trying to stay strong. Today’s A Taste of Flava is raw, honest, and personal. I talk about pain, discouragement, physical therapy, finally accepting that I needed a walker, and what it feels like when you think you’re making…

