Elation: A Recipe for Elevating Health?
Health is not about blood pressure, weight, sugar and cholesterol levels — those are indicators, wake-up alerts. Health is about you and about us — the community — and it’s about expression. Let me explain. Trauma In 2016, Rochelle Sykes’ 12-year-old nephew was burned alive in a dumpster on Chicago’s West Side. Rochelle and her […]
Mind & Body: What a Pain
Shortly after I turned 31, I was diagnosed with shingles. Born of the same virus as chickenpox, shingles is a wretched disease that affects your nerves and presents itself with shooting pain, tingling, and itchy, painful blisters or rashes. Once chickenpox recedes, the virus sits dormant until woken by a compromised immune system. Decades later, […]
