Black Wellness and Healthy Resolutions in 2021: What Do They Really Mean?
One of our uh-mazing Healing Members sent in thoughts on what our Byte Community has meant to him over the last year or so. In this forum, we talk endlessly about what healthy living means to us. It stands for so much more than the number on a scale or bragging rights with our friends. Our everyday wellness choices are a declaration of our agency, our right to survive in a world not build for us…our determination to thrive individually and communally. His words touched me, and I hope they’ll resonate with you in your 2021 wellness journey.
Click here to learn about our Healing Membership and get a taste of the Byte Wellness community he experiences. Here’s what Christian Edge had to say:
“For most of us, the world, at least as we knew it, ripped itself asunder in March of 2020. Quarantines, closures, and face masks became the new normal. For me, though, the world, at least as I knew it, imploded a year earlier. After a series of professional and personal setbacks, I felt besieged on all sides, suffocating on my own disappointments and failures. Furious that the life I curated was crumbling around me, I turned all of that energy inward, blaming myself for everything from my own perceived failures to the bad weather outside my window.
Worst of all, I believed any negative utterance that had ever been said about me. I was a villain, constantly challenging entrenched power structures. I was insane, deluding myself into believing I could make a difference. I was mouthy, too stupid to hold my tongue in boardrooms with people whom I knew to be enemies.
With this nasty buffet before me, I did what a lot of people do. I ate it. I stuffed those negative thoughts into my mouth by the handful. But I was never satiated. Along with all of these negative thoughts, I made sugar and white flour my best friends. And they are always up for anything!
After two years at the buffet and a bullhorn of a wake-up call, I am finally beginning to turn myself around. I owe this and so much more to Dr. Mawusi Arnett (Dr. Wuse) and the Byte Wellness experience. If you need a partner on this journey, someone to hold your hand and educate you on nutrition and healthy choices, look no further than Dr. Wuse and Byte Wellness. Virtual workshops, daily texts, and the ability to ask your questions and get real answers are all tools at your disposal. I am finally eating better, feeling healthier, and I can walk five blocks without my back trying screaming for mercy.
I am not perfect, and the journey continues. I may have bad days in the future, lousy ones in fact. I may fall off the wagon and into a reasonably priced specialty donut shop. But right now, I am focusing on the good days, and the great taste of a well-seasoned Brussels sprout. I am committed to healing my body and my spirit. And, as for all of that harmful, useless negative energy? Well. Byte me.”