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69 | Navigating Healthcare As A Black Woman with Dr. Kristamarie Collman

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She's So Lucky

Balancedblackgirl, Self-improvement, #Shessolucky, Balancedles, Business, Entrepreneurship, Lesalfred, Education

4.8 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 23 June 2020

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Today’s guest is Dr. Kristamarie Collman, a double board certified family medicine doctor. Leveraging her professional background in medicine paired with a natural flair for beauty and style, Dr. Kristamarie takes a holistic approach in helping women to live healthier lives. 

She empowers women of all ages with tools and tips to “glow up” and ultimately feel their best.  Dr. Kristamarie graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in Public Health from Rutgers University – New Brunswick and continued her education at the New York Medical College in Valhalla, NY, earning a Doctor of Medicine. She later joined the ranks of Halifax Health Medical Center as a resident physician in Daytona Beach, FL, where she was also nominated to serve as Chief Resident. 

She currently resides in Charlottesville, VA, where she practices in acute care and outpatient Family Medicine. Beyond the doctor’s office, Dr. Kristamarie shares engaging social media content focused on inspirational messages, healthy lifestyle and wellness advice. In her spare time she enjoys spending time with her fiancé, their dog and trying out new food recipes in the kitchen. She is also the author of “Glow Up Your Life: The Rx for Looking and Feeling Good from the Inside Out.” 

In this episode, we talk about…

  • Ways we can advocate for ourselves and loved ones when receiving medical care.
  • What to look for when searching for healthcare providers.
  • Incorporating holistic medicine with western practices.
  • Managing stress and anxiety around COVID-19.
  • Her experience navigating a fibroid diagnosis.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to Balance Black Girl, a podcast dedicated to mental, physical, and emotional health from the Black Woman's perspective.

0:12.0

Tune in to hear from black woman health and wellness experts

0:15.0

giving the approachable advice you need to help you feel your best.

0:19.0

I'm your host, Lestrandra Alfred.

0:22.0

Let's dive in. Thank you so much for tuning into this

0:28.5

week's episode of Balance Black Girl. I am your host Less and this is a safe space that I created to have

0:38.9

candid conversations about health and well-being from the black woman's perspective.

0:45.0

So if you are new here, welcome.

0:48.0

I am so happy to have you.

0:49.5

And if you are a returning listener, welcome back. I'm so happy to have you come back because that's that's very

0:56.0

important so happy to have you here thank you so much for tuning in the past few episodes

1:01.7

and today is no exception I've just been like okay can we start with a collective

1:07.8

breath as so many of us know you know the things that we're seeing are not new. These are things that our

1:16.3

community, our ancestors have been dealing with for 400 years. However, this current scale of the constant documentation,

1:29.1

the collective shift in so many people waking up and waking up all at once.

1:35.0

The imagery that we are inundated with, the amount of information we're inundated with,

1:39.5

all wrapped up in a global pandemic that has already disproportionately affected our community.

1:47.0

It's just, it's a lot. So no, this is nothing new, but it still is a lot and it's okay to allow yourself to still take a beat and

1:57.8

acknowledge that

1:59.5

But you know like I said I think to be a black person just breathing right now is such a gift.

2:06.4

And I have been really making a conscious effort to pay even more attention to every breath that I take, at least that I can remember taking in the moment

2:17.7

and just expressing so much gratitude for that.

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