LifeBliss Wellness Blog Posts
A Complete Step-by-Step Guide to Manifesting a Soft Life
How to manifest an unapologetically soft life of intention, joy, peace, femininity and sensuality for health and wellness. [AUDIO VERSION INSIDE]
How to Discover your Own Unique Soft Lifestyle Values
A guide to creating a plan to live your own unique soft lifestyle, based on authentic, intrinsic values.
Spiritual Sensuality: the Unexpected Key to Black Women’s Wellness
Spiritual sensuality is the sacred portal to self love, self care, health and overall wellness. Black women’s sensuality has been historically repressed, resulting in harm to ourselves, our families and our communities.
The Anti-Diet Movement’s Role in Black Women’s Soft Life Revolution
How anti-diet principles are key to ending the weaponization of food against black women’s bodies, humanity and ability to lead soft lives.
Black Women’s Ultimate Guide to Living the Soft Life
Black women are seeking the soft life as a path to joy-based health and liberation from the stress and harm caused by hustle culture, diet culture and mainstream wellness culture.
Juneteenth and the Liberation of Black Women’s Bodies
Juneteenth isn’t just one day of honor and celebration. Black women make it day one (or renewal) of a full year of intentional Black Joy and freedom of body, mind and spirit.
Exhausted Black Women: How to Break Free and Live your Best Life
Read this if you’re low energy, stressed and struggling to be active, eat well and experience everyday joy. You deserve better!
Reclaiming Black Wellness as a Path to the Good Life
Wellness culture is really nothing more than a diet culture hijacking with a side helping of hyper-competitive hostile perfection, self imposed misery and self blame over what we actually have absolutely no control over. Black women need real wellness, self care and the good life, and have the power to take it back.
Why LifeBliss Centers Black Women’s Wellness
Centering black women means that all the content and all the problems we address are communicated directly to black women, without the distraction of the white gaze, the male gaze, or any other opposition to our cause.
Food Freedom and Intuitive Eating Strategy For Black Women’s Wellness
Food rules that reject our culture, restrict satisfying meals and are designed for the unattainable purpose of shrinking our bodies do not promote good health. They keep us from living our best lives.
Spiritual Sensuality: the Unexpected Key to Black Women’s Wellness
Sensuality, or mindfulness of all our senses, is the sacred portal to self love, self care, health and spiritual connection. Black women’s sensuality has been repressed for centuries, resulting in harm to ourselves, our families and our communities.
Black Women and the Historical Blackness of Self Care
Black women taking care of ourselves is a form of radical resistance today in the United States of America.
How “Healthy” Recipes and Meal Plans Sabotage Healthy Lifestyles
What you eat is only a small part of a healthy lifestyle. Effortless healthy living requires a much deeper exploration of your inner workings–mindset, values and emotions to be sustainable long term.
Food Freedom: the Ultimate Act of Self Care for Black Women
Food Freedom is the permanent way out of sexist, racist diet culture oppression that doesn’t mean giving up on your health
4 Ways to be Anti-Diet, but not Anti Weight Loss, while Living your Best Life
How you can be against dieting and restrictive eating, without settling for a miserable 600 pound lifestyle.
Why we need Wellness Spaces Just for Black Women
It’s high time for black women to stop being the super women of the entire planet and nurture and nourish ourselves first. And we must make this happen outside of the mainstream whitewashed wellness spaces where we are invisible and unwanted.
Here’s why Diets Fail Miserably
Here’s why the weight loss struggle usually ends in epic failure and why it’s time to finally get off the diet bandwagon
Is Diet Culture Robbing you of the Good Life?
What diet culture is, and how to set yourself free from its racist, sexist oppression.
Black August: A Time for Self Care, Renewal and Self Preservation for Black Women
Black August is a month filled with history of black resistance, in 2020 we will add the ultimate act of radical resistance: black women’s self care.
If Diets Fail, what Works? (Hint: not diets disguised as lifestyle changes)
Don’t believe me? Go away and check back 2-5 years from now when you’re fatter then ever, looking to start a new weight loss journey.
Authentic Wellness and Weight Loss for Black Women over 40
A revolutionary healthy eating and living roadmap to looking amazing and feeling fantastic while living your best black life
Well Hello, 50! Yes, I’m Shamelessly Showing off
Fabulous health, wealth and true happiness are all personal lifestyle choices we make and that don’t have expiration dates. I’m 50 years of living proof that only you can make your wildest dreams come true!
Holiday Calories are Impossible to Earn or Burn off–what to do Instead
You’ll see the dumbest-ass healthy living and weight loss advice of the whole year from October until January. Don’t be fooled. Be smart and live the good life.
Should you Try a Grocery Delivery Service?
Is grocery delivery service a silly waste of money, a brilliant way of reclaiming time to create a healthy lifestyle, or something else completely? It depends. Here’s my experience.
The Pumpkin Chili Story
You know how I don’t follow recipes unless it’s baking? Well, here’s a little story about how amazing creations develop in my lil’ kitchen.
Healthy Cooking Tools you Need, Tools you don’t Need, and things in between
Kitchen tools that save you time with everyday healthy eating that’s gourmet quality, with none of that Diet-Girl weight loss “journey” type crap
Clean Eating Ain’t Nothin’ but a Low Down Dirty…DIET!
Clean eating isn’t about health. Here’s how it establishes binary views of foods and people by separating them into clean and dirty, or good and bad, or healthy and unhealthy and why that’s sexist and classist.
How to Uplevel your Healthy Home Cooking with Spice Mastery
Everything you need to know about selecting, storing, preparing and using spices to make healthy home cooked meals scrumptious like a foodie boss
The Absolute #1 Most Important Healthy Lifestyle Habit Ever!
If you do nothing else, because you’re not ready yet to start the whole eating journey thing, or, you’re on vacation, or whatever, but you want to stay healthy, prioritize this. (It’s easy!)
6 Painless Ways to get Kids to Eat Healthy Foods
Getting your kids on board with healthy eating without diets, restrictions, drama or food rules. Because healthy eating shouldn’t be unpleasant.
A Prediabetes Diagnosis? Holy Hell, what do I do Now!?
Everything about healthy eating and living you need to know to reverse the risk of developing type 2 diabetes if you’ve been diagnosed as prediabetic.
Ignore Everything you think you know about Weight Control and Fat Loss and Read this Now
I’ve taken it upon myself to educate everybody who wants to know how weight control and body fat actually works, based on science.