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Life's Gumbo

SoulMed Holistic Health Collaborative

Life is complicated. Culture is complicated. Healing is complicated. Sometimes we need somewhere to sit with all of it.Life's Gumbo is where I make meaning of the stories, systems, beliefs and everyday experiences shaping Black women's lives.

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3 DAYS AGO • 3 MIN READ

Baby, let them eat fish and beans

Hey, girl, hey Happy Sunday ... I'll a little late ... but pull up a chair. There’s a pot on the stove and it’s been simmering all week around one question: how much of what you’re carrying was ever actually yours? My auntie had an answer before I had the question. She used to say, and forgive her, but she meant it, “F** ‘em and feed ‘em fish and beans.” As a girl I laughed because it sounded outrageous. As a grown woman who has loved hard and worn herself out doing it, I understand now that...

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Sis, let your belly out ... this bowl is pure joy

7 DAYS AGO • 2 MIN READ

Pull up a chair, sis — the first bowl is ready

10 DAYS AGO • 4 MIN READ
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