As we step into the new year, it’s never been a better time to go vegan and create healthy practices around your eating habits. When we nourish our bodies, the foods we consume not only fuel the body physically but also mentally and spiritually.
While sitting on your bed, eyes closed, you initiate a heavy sigh as you consider picking up your crochet hook to start a new project, again. Sadly, you understand you simply can’t tolerate making more stitches, even if it was just one more time. The morning pause allows you to reflect on the past months, or years, during which you have spent your time committed to an activity, duty, or job.
Metabolic health is about how efficiently your body converts what you eat and drink into usable energy and how well that energy supports everything you do, from thinking and breathing to healing and moving. It is not just about “burning calories.”
A few years ago, a friend and I were talking about how, as people who live in Black bodies, we often struggle to accept that not everything has to be a fight. So much of what it has historically meant to be Black and female—both across generations and across the globe—has been to fight. Fight for our freedom. Fight to be seen, fight to be heard, fight to achieve, fight to be worthy, and fight to be equal.
Music has always had a way of slipping past our defenses. It reaches places inside us that words alone can’t touch. A melody can unearth a memory, soothe a tired spirit, energize a weary body, or bring clarity to a cluttered mind.
