Can you believe we made it to 2022? Maybe you have spent the last couple of years working from home, in and out of zoom calls and your motivation fell to the wayside. I just want to let you know that you are not alone! If you entered the new year ready to turn over a new leaf, let’s chat …
Today’s blog is brought to you by Florida Orange Juice. As always, all opinions are my own. Ever since I was a little girl, Florida Orange Juice was a part of my family’s happiest memories. Pancakes at my best friend’s house only paired perfectly with ice cold orange juice. Ever had an“Everything Bagel” from Long Island? I can assure you, …
Almost two years into the COVID-19 pandemic and I can honestly say that this year has been a rollercoaster. The optimism and positivity I felt at the beginning faded into the reality that I would be a full-time working, stay at home mother for the foreseeable future. Many of us are doing the impossible and although the impossible has become …
What did you guys do last summer? Stay home in your bubble? Same. Same. Same. We missed out on a lot, and now, we are anxious to get back to “normal”. We are living in a time where peoples comfort levels on interaction are a continuum of “business as usual”, and BAU means different strokes for different folks. If I …
Ah July, temps are high and living is easy. On the weekends you make plans for the pool, beach or lake. You pack up the sunscreen, the kids and a good book in case you get lucky and then BOOM. A headline gets dropped that ingredients in your favorite sunscreen is now linked to cancer. Benzene, a popular chemical in …
You did it mama! Welcome to the tribe. You created and sustained life for 9 months. You went through the transformative experience of labor and delivery and your precious new bundle is here. YOU ARE OFFICIALLY MAMA. So today, I just want to check in with you… How are you? No really, how are you? The first few postpartum months, …
Two weeks and counting and I cannot believe I am going to be a mom again. This time, to a little girl. A little girl who is already putting me through the paces. Before I was about to give birth to CJ, Cory and I took a visit to California to figure out where we were going to live. While …
I’m just a New York girl living in a Miami world. When I go back home to New York, I want it ALL. The pizza, the lox bagels, even the Chinese takeout that leaves me with the most vivid dreams of my life. I want it all and I don’t hold back. As a mixed race women, my mom’s side …
Happy March! Did you know that march is National Nutrition Month? It is, and today, I am chatting with Baptist health South Florida about all things nutrition and the immune system. As we navigate our way through what I hope is the final countdown of the COVID-19 pandemic, people are still wondering how to strengthen their immune system to fight …
My clean beauty and home journey started about a year before trying to conceive. I was actively learning more and more about the foods we consume and the effects of preservatives and pesticides on the body and I got to wondering: “If this stuff is allowed in and on our food. What the heck is in all of the products …
*** Baby girl is about to enter this world and we are so excited to share how we are preparing. This is a sponsored partnership, brought to you by buybuy BABY. As always all opinions are my own. You guys, how did we get here? I am officially in the single digit weekly countdown. This pregnancy has been a rollercoaster …
***This is a sponsored discussion brought to you by the experts at Baptist Health South Florida. As always, any advice in these posts are coming straight from the incredible physicians and RD’s from BHSF. February is Heart Month and it also happens to be both Black History and Women’s Month as well. Today, along with the experts from Baptist Health …
We all know that Black History month falls in February, but did you know, it also happens to be Heart Health Month? The experts from Baptist Health South Florida say, the link between the two should not be ignored. As we have seen throughout 2020, the COVID-19 Pandemic has disproportionally affected communities of color including people of African-American and Hispanic …
**This is a sponsored conversation brought to you by Wal-Mart. As Always, all opinions are my own. Welcome to 2021. I don’t know about you, but not a lot has shifted for me since leaving 2020 in the dust. The news is still a stress inducing spiral. We are at home 95% of the time and toddler life is a …
Join host, Jonathan Fialkow, M.D., chief population health officer at Baptist Health, and his guests Madeline Camejo, Pharm.D., chief pharmacy officer and vice president of pharmacy services; Samer Fahmy, M.D., chief medical officer at Boca Raton Regional Hospital; and Rachel Evers, R.N., director of surgical services at Baptist Hospital for a discussion of the latest developments in the battle against COVID-19, with hope for …
***This post was written in partnership with Baptist Health South Florida. Any advice has been linked directly to the original blog. Amidst a Global Pandemic, other winter-related sicknesses have graced us with their presence. I know these are hard subjects to navigate, but I wanted to share an article that was brought to my attention by the experts at Baptist …
