Wellness Wednesday – Raise Your Health Awareness
October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, National Domestic Violence Month and Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Month. These and many other health conditions impact people of color at higher rates and/or cause more deaths and suffering, compared to other groups. This can and must change.
I’m grateful to participate in two events that raise awareness about health disparities – how differences in people contribute to different health statuses, and steps we can take to improve health outcomes.
This week’s #WellnessWednesday Facebook Live shares more.
Wellness Wednesday October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, National Domestic Violence Awareness Month, and Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Month. These and many other health conditions impact people of color at higher rates and/or cause more deaths and suffering, compared to other groups. This can and must change. Change starts with knowledge. Learn about two free upcoming education events that can help us live better. The Addressing Minority Health Disparities Lunch N Learn and All Of Us Journey Exhibit will be at New Hope Baptist Church of Baton Rouge October 17th. Both events are free and open to the public. For more information go to https://nettyejohnson.com/wellnesswednesday
Posted by Nettye Johnson on Wednesday, October 10, 2018
The Addressing Minority Health Disparities” workshop is one the most impactful and well received health education sessions I offer, and my Pastor and home church are excited to host the National Institutes of Health All of Us Journey Exhibit. The information shared in these events can truly save and improve lives.
If you are in the Gtr Baton Rouge area, we’d love to see you Wednesday, October 17th. If you are out of the area of can’t make it, please share the events/topics as health improvement (for individuals and communities) starts with knowledge. I appreciate and thank you for help spreading the word.
Also check out, share, and apply (as applicable) the information, tools and resources made available by related organizations and programs. These folks are doing great work to help many.
For breast cancer education, research and advocacy
- Susan G. Komen Foundation (National outreach)
- Komen Baton Rouge (Gtr Baton Rouge area)
For domestic violence prevention, support, and advocacy
- The Butterfly Society (Gtr Baton Rouge area)
- The National Domestic Violence Hotline
Take care, God bless, be informed and be well!
Nettye
FabFitFun Spring 2018 Unboxing
Done well, subscription boxes are a convenient, cost-effective way to add excellent products and their related enjoyment to your life. Subscription boxes can be particularly helpful for busy folks (me), who appreciate quality (me), value value (me), like to try new things (me), but don’t like to shop (me). Food, fashion, entertainment, education… name the genre, there’s a subscription box for that.
In the beauty, health and fashion area – fabfitfun does it right. Four times a year they send a collection of distinguished, full-sized self-care items. I’m excited to be a #FabFitFunAffiliate – check out my unboxing of the Spring 2018 box and you’ll see why. The products in the box have a value of $343 and I paid a mere fraction of that amount.
Check it out – the quality, variety and value of what you get is amazing.
IKR!
You want one? The Fall 2018 FabFitFun box ships in September. Use this link and code to FALLINLOVE to get $10 off.
Want to see more? Click the images below to see unboxing of Summer 2018 and Editor’s boxes.
Summer Edition 2018 Box
$355.99 value
2017/2018 Editor’s Box
$321.00 value
Still haven’t signed up?
What cha waiting for? Use this link and use code to FALLINLOVE to get $10 off the Fall 2018 FabFitFun box (don’t wait – it ships in September).
Do you do subscription boxes? If so, tell me more. Share your favorites in comments.
Great Flood of 2016 – a look back and step forward
I know it has been a long, long while since I last posted. I’m sorry.
For me, out of sight has not been out of mind. You’ve been in my thoughts, plans and prayers. I hope all is well, and I post today to catch-up and share something new for you.
The catch up is a bit lengthy written – but has been captured in a short video if you prefer to watch/listen click the image below.
August 14, 2016
Two years ago today Will, the kids, and I rode down our street in a sheriff’s boat.
We had two suitcases, and big old wide eyes looking at water that had come up to the roof line of houses on this end of our street.
August 14, 2018
What a difference two years can make.
The last FEMA trailer was taken down and removed about three weeks ago, and I can’t help but notice the number of for sale signs that are up.
I counted eight in the one mile stretch on our street.
There are some beautiful spanking new construction homes up, and they’re just as many that are gutted and empty. They look okay from the outside, but inside those houses don’t have walls because neighbors gutted them out, and haven’t yet decided what they’re gonna do or worked out whatever needs to be worked out to move forward.
Two years in, and this kind of situation is not just happening for individuals – some businesses, and organizations in our area have the same situation. Our public school board finally got needed information from FEMA and other involved parties so they could determine what would happen to our son’s school that got flooded.
They decided that it has to be demolished, and they’ll get a brand new campus, but it took two years of waiting to get the news that you have to start over.
Real talk. Recovering from a natural disaster is hard.
It takes a long time.
It’s emotional.
It’s taxing.
It’s just flat out rough – recovering from tremendous loss. And for us, for the Johnsons, the massive damage of our home, it kind of pales in comparison to what happened later.
Those of you that know me know that shortly after the flood, we lost my mom and both of my sisters. Broke my heart.
All this considered, looking back from August 14th, 2016 – these past two years have been two of the most trying and transformative in my life. And I can honestly say I’m not the same.
I’m not.
Things aren’t the same.
But God is.
He is great, and He is gracious.
And because of that Will, the kids and I, we are grateful, and we’re good.
We are good.
So many in this area are taking an anniversary look back. There was a commemorative event in Denham Springs this past weekend. We’re seeing retrospectives in local periodicals, and status stories on local news shows. While we joined people in looking back, we also thought it was very fitting for today – this time right now, to take a step forward.
So today is the launch of a new project, my new podcast Faith Applied.
Faith Applied is a podcast for folks that are about that growth life.
It is for those of us who earnestly desire to live out our God-given potential and realize that we’re not there, not close in some areas.
That there are aspects of our existence where we need to grow, and to develop, and to stretch.
In this podcast, we’ll have transparent conversations.
We’ll talk about faith, and elements of health, and about purpose.
We’re going to dig into biblical truths, and explore practical principles – steps that we can take to move from where we are now, closer to where God intends for us to be.
So, to find out if this podcast would be a fit or benefit for you, I’d really love for you to take a listen to this introductory episode. It is live now at faithapplied.today
Because it’s a podcast, you can also subscribe to be notified when new episodes released. You can subscribe on iTunes (for iOS devices), or Stitcher or Spotify (for Android devices). You can also listen TuneIn, or on our website faithapplied.today
Check out the introductory episode and see if the content resonates with you. If it does, I’d love for you to join our weekly conversations.
I count it an honor to have the opportunity to share with, learn and grow together. I hope that you will come along.
So we’ll see you over at faithapplied.today, and I’d love to hear your thoughts. You can email me directly at talk@nettyejohnson.com
Take care, God bless and be well.
Nettye
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