An immersive, chapter-by-chapter audio-visual experience based on the powerful book
Black Wellness Barriers: Understanding the Root Cause of Disease Vulnerabilities as a Pathway Towards Restoring Health
Reclaiming Wellness One Page At A Time With Dr. Tawainna Houston
Too often, conversations about Black health start at the surface: diet, exercise, and disease management, without ever naming the deeper historical, cultural, and systemic forces that shaped our vulnerabilities in the first place.
So many of us have done everything right — and we’re still seeing skyrocketing rates of hypertension, diabetes, fibroids, and heart disease at younger ages.
It’s not just biology — it’s the burden of stress, the legacy of survival, and generations of unprocessed pain.
As you move through the “Read-Along” experience, you’ll not only absorb the lessons within “Black Wellness Barriers” — you’ll embody them. Each chapter is designed to help you reconnect to history, culture, calm the impact of racialized stress, and integrate practices that promote healing and balance. These benefits are more than outcomes — they’re tools for reclaiming your health story from the inside out.
Learn how the legacy of enslavement, structural racism, and generational trauma continues to shape present-day health outcomes for African Americans. Through guided readings and reflection, you’ll connect historical truth to current wellness barriers — turning awareness into empowerment and prevention.
Understanding how chronic racial stress impacts your body helps you restore balance to your nervous system. Through guided readings and reflection, you’ll learn evidence-based tools to reduce cortisol spikes, calm your mind, and feel more in charge of your emotional health.
Discover how the science of racialized fatigue and holistic nourishment intersect. Each lesson offers practical strategies drawn from naturopathic wellness to boost circulation, improve rest, and renew your natural energy without overexertion.
As you read and listen, you’ll learn how stress patterns show up in digestion, immunity, and inflammation. You’ll gain insights into mind-body communication, empowering you to notice early signs of imbalance and apply restorative practices from both science and spirit.
Challenge the myths and misinformation that have distorted how we view Black bodies and disease for centuries. This course helps you replace internalized deficit-based beliefs with a scientifically grounded, culturally affirming understanding of strength, resilience, and possibility.
By joining this guided read-along, you are stepping into a healing tradition that honors history while rewriting the narrative for our future. Through knowledge, reflection, and community, we reclaim what was always ours — the right to be well, whole, and free.
Dr. Tawainna Houston is a licensed Naturopathic Doctor, cultural wellness educator, and founder of Black CELL Consulting and Journey of Wellness Natural Medicine Center. With more than two decades of combined experience in social science, pastoral care, counseling, and holistic medicine, she brings a culturally grounded and clinically informed approach to wellness. She is the author of Detox-Style and the groundbreaking Black Wellness Barriers: Understanding the Root Cause of Disease Vulnerabilities as a Pathway Towards Restoring Health. Through her work, Dr. Houston supports Black communities in reclaiming wellness by addressing the historical, biological, and systemic factors affecting health today.
Read MoreThe book is recommended, but not required. You can choose how you want to enjoy the experience, as every chapter is read aloud.
1 year of access from date of purchase.
They’re held once a month; you’ll receive notifications and reminders each month. Replays will be available if you can not attend live.
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Stress, Ancestry, and the Black Body is a 3-part mini-course designed to introduce you to the unique ways racialized stress impacts the health of Black people across generations. In just a few short lessons, you’ll gain insight into how chronic stress embeds itself in the body, how ancestral resilience lives within us, and how we can reclaim wellness through intentional, culturally grounded practices.
This course offers:
⚘ Clear, accessible lessons
𓋹 Downloadable worksheets accompanying each lesson to deepen learning
𓋼 Practical tools you can begin using immediately
Join this course to take your first step in understanding the connection between history, identity, and health, and to begin building strategies that strengthen both individual and collective wellness.
(Registration is available by invitation only)