I Am Wellness

This week's episode, I am joined with Paige Gaines, the founder and CEO of @911SaneJane Inc., and we are giving all the life as Paige shares her powerful story of navigating her mental health diagnosis, how she prioritizes her wellness, and how she is flourishing as an entrepreneur! It is so important to learn more about mental health and illness and advocate for the support that you need so you can be the best version of yourself. In this episode, we are pouring all of ourselves out to you and look forward to having you be more empowered to flourish in your own right! Remember to Review, Subscribe, and Share!

On this week's episode, childhood best friend, Jessica Pettis @Jesswiththemess.cle, joins Charjoi and shares her experience being a medical student while being a Black woman. We discuss the importance of representation of Black and Brown doctors for our community, the burnout that we experience while breaking down the walls of generation trauma and poverty and being the "first" in our families, and the time that we need to step away from our struggles in order to get back on the right and healthy path!

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Ever gone on a weekend staycation or a two-week trip to somewhere on your 'bucket list'? Well on this episode Charjoi and Guest, Travel agent and Founder of Project Take Back My Life, Pharryl Jade, discusses how traveling has been a huge part of their self-care and wellness journey.  Pharryl shares her insight on how solo travel has brought her closer to the woman that she is loving each and every day and how she wants travel to be more than just a form of self-care and more a way of life! Follow @Pharryl.Jade for more on travel!

WELCOME BACK! I Am Wellness is back and dropping so many gems about change management in this first episode. I reflect on the past couple of months being away from the podcast and how all the change in life impacts my overall well-being. I also share the different types of change and my coping strategies that help me manage the day-to-day changes in life. If one thing is for sure, it's "The only constant in life is change!" 

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Welcome back! Season 2 is launching September 8th and I am so ready to get into this season with the Wellness Tribe! Get ready for more gems, more vulnerability, MORE AMAZING GUESTS! We are going to walk together along this wellness journey and it's going to be full of growth and love! 

Your good sis launched her website! Check it out at www.joifulhealing.com

I Am Wellness is launching September 8th and will drop new episodes bi-weekly (every other Wednesday!). Don't forget to subscribe so you never miss an episode!

This is the SEASON FINALE! Wow! I am just filled with gratitude for this time, experience, and building this tribe with you all. I pour out my many thanks and affirmations during this episode while also noting how I overcome imposter syndrome/self-doubt while on this journey and many others like it. Thank you all for listening and supporting, thank you to my loved ones for EVERYTHING, thank you to all of my guests this season for bringing that dope energy, and thank you universe for aligning everything for I Am Wellness. If you are looking to start your own podcast, connect with @jessicahurley_ for her Podcasting Your Passion course!

I Am Wellness will be back for Season 2 soon!

In this week's episode, I am launching my CoDependent AF series where I will discuss what it means to be codependent and share my experience with being in recovery. In this first episode of the series, "Am I CoDependent?" We walk through basic information of what codependency is, signs/characteristics of codependency and ways to unlearn some unhealthy ish! We can in fact have healthy boundaries and that does not make us selfish or unlovable. 

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Happy Mental Health Awareness Month! This week, I am joined with the creator and founder of @PaperTherapyCards, Aaron Ni'jai. We dive into benefits of therapy, mental wellness for black men and women, self-care tools, and how Paper Therapy Cards are here to support EVERYONE'S mental wellness through reflections, affirmations, and everyday actions. Check out Paper Therapy Cards at www.papertherapycards.com, they're the perfect gift for yourself or others!

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Welcome to this week's episode where we are working to eliminate the stigma surrounding sexual health and wellness! We are exploring different types of sexual education, why it's so important to be liberated and fully engage in sexual-based conversations, and how to become more comfortable with safe and healthy sex practices. Safe and healthy sex is great sex and you deserve full and total wellness - and this includes sexual wellness!

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Welcome to this week's episode where I discuss what happens when change happens TO us versus when change happens FOR us. Often, we become immersed in the madness of unwanted and unforeseen change and forget to look up from the chaos to live the best lives and be the best versions of ourselves that we can be. When we step into our resilience we are reminded that we can work it all out in this lifetime. 

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This week on I Am Wellness, I have my sis, Hannah Araya, here to help celebrate my birthday! As we "pour it up", we make space to go deep into our experiences and thoughts on trauma, codependency, ambitious traits in ourselves and that attract us to others, and meeting ourselves exactly where we need to be met. It's safe to say that whatever we needed to talk about, was discussed in this episode (and there may be some singing [very off key] in there too). Help me celebrate my birthday by taking a listen, I'm sure there are plenty of gems to take note of!

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In this week's episode, I discuss thoughts and feelings I have surrounding all of the events happening in the world around us. It seems as though the world becomes more chaotic everyday and it takes a lot of work to navigate it all and still maintain my sanity and wellness. Please be advised that there are heavy topics being discussed in this episode and if you need to connect with someone to talk please use these resources: Crisis Text Line - text "HOME" to 741-741 or call the Suicide Prevention Lifeline 1-800-273-8255. You are not alone and you matter!

In this week's episode, I pay special tribute to my "tribe" and dive into taking inventory of the relationships in your life and how to find the value in your friendships. I also reference Oprah's Super Soul Conversations podcast episode with Dr. Brene Brown and the "Anatomy of Trust" where she breaks down the meaning and important components of how to establish trust within yourself and others. Here, we learn that trust is built from B.R.A.V.I.N.G.

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This week's episode is shared with Mikayla Taylor @bymikaylataylor, who shares her vulnerable experience living with chronic illness as well as shares news of her "mommy to be" to a beautiful baby girl. While the pregnancy journey is often normalized to be an easy, happy, and healthy experience, this is not the case for a lot of women. Mikayla shares her experience with Hyperemesis Gravidarum (HG), enduring the impacts of her chronic illness, maintaining her overall wellness, and being her best advocate while receiving treatment. Too often, the lived experiences of women get shamed or judged if they do not fit the status quo, but it is the priority to shift our conversations and spaces to allow for women to be themselves. 

In this week's episode, I am joined by Charity Irby as we discuss body image and share our experiences with body shame, how the outside world impacts our own internal views of ourselves, and how finding self-love meant that we needed to start honoring our bodies. As noted in the episode, an excerpt is shared from The Body Is Not An Apology by Sonya Renee Taylor which was purchased from Black-owned bookstore, Underground Books, in Sacramento, CA. 

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Join me and a special guest, Pat Julmiste, as we dive into mental health and overall wellness from a man's point of view! We talk about stigmas and taboos within the Black and Haitian communities, what mental health means and looks like for men compared to women, and how therapy has shaped his outlook on how his mind is working for him and not against him. Follow Pat for more information about his upcoming podcast and to learn more at @pjqb3 on IG.

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With inspiration from a conversation held between Oprah and Bishop T.D. Jakes on her Soul Conversations Podcast regarding Transformational Thinking, I dive into how transforming my thoughts from within has changed not only my outlook about myself but how I've used it to evolve into the woman I desire to be and have outcomes that set me up for my success. I talk through moving from the pain of the past and self-sabotage to allowing my experiences to steer me in a more growth-filled present and future. Join me as we start to TRANSFORM together!

With I Am Wellness's first guests, Mia and Kim - hosts of the This is Thirties Podcast, we are unpacking the need to have control over EVERYTHING and how it impacts our wellness. We get to explore where our control freak comes from and how it's navigated through our season of 20s versus our season of 30s. After unpacking, we learn how to use healthy tools to reframe our "need" to control and start to radically accept what is. 

There is nothing more aggravating than someone trying to tell you that you should or should not be in a relationship without understanding the chapter of life that you're in - and for them to use it as a COMPLIMENT no less! For all my folks thriving in their singleness right now, this is the Valentines Day special just for us! We discuss my journey navigating a super committed relationship at a young age and how that shifted my views on staying single and relationships throughout my twenties and beyond. 

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Are you in your season of 20s? Have you left your season of 20s behind? Regardless of what season of life you're in currently, I think we can all agree that our 20s hit us with some life-altering lessons. In today's episode, I discuss those lessons and how they changed me as a woman and how I'm am becoming better because of them. 

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