#21: Thriving > Surviving: Preventative Health with Dr. Tiffany Lester

Black Girl In Om

Lauren Ash

Women Of Color, Religion & Spirituality, Holistic, Women, Self-care, Mindfulness, Spirituality, Black Women, Manifestation, Health, Yoga, Mental Health, Self-love, Wellness

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 7 June 2017

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Black Girl In Om Founder Lauren Ash and Art Director Deun Ivory chat with Dr. Tiffany Lester, their favorite doctor who takes an integrative approach to health. Dr. Lester takes a holistic approach to wellness as she is additionally trained in acupuncture and nutrition. She encourages all of us to go beyond medicine as the cure-all and to consider preventative approaches. From tips on how to build resilience and effectively manage stress, to healing yourself through food and gut health practices, Dr. Lester addresses listener questions and provides useful advice. At the heart of this conversation, we hope listeners will feel empowered to get to the root causes of health challenges.

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0:00.0	Black Girl in Rome creates space for women of color to breathe easy.
0:04.0	We promote holistic wellness and inner beauty for women of color.
0:07.0	We encourage self-care, self-love, and self-empowerment for communities of color.
0:11.0	This is Lauren Ash and
0:12.8	Deont Ivory and thanks so much for listening to our podcast. How you feeling, Dion? How you're feeling, Dion?
0:34.0	I am feeling quite wonderful, actually.
0:38.0	I feel really good.
0:42.0	I love it.
0:43.0	Why are you feeling good today?
0:44.0	I'm feeling good today because I'm alive and breathing
0:48.0	and I've been making my own smoothies. I was butchering them bad boys before.
0:54.3	You did not even tell me this. What is your new smoothie?
0:56.7	Yes. So I've been making this banana strawberry flaxseed and spinach smoothie
1:04.7	yum and it's really delicious and flaxseed is really good for you and I was like I don't know how I'm gonna you know how I am I'm
1:10.6	I do picky with food so you've gotten so much better I know and I was like
1:14.6	Dion you don't get over it like your grown adult and then you need to be consuming this
1:18.3	for your you know just your insides it needs to be healthy so I've been taking them and they've
1:22.3	been really good and I try I made one for
1:23.9	Eric and he really loved it so that's awesome great that's good I love smoothies
1:28.9	because it it also just kind of turns into a ritual too, which is great. You know I love my smoothies. I know I know you do.
1:36.7	My go to... Yes, yes. I saw your new one.
1:39.5	Shout on Janay Claiborne. She put me on to them. She put me on to them. So my favorite go-to smoothie
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