“Fix Your Face: Performing Wellness and the Path to Embodied Self-Care”
Welcome to Episode 6 of the Smart Wellness Global Podcast. This is a place for gifted, high-achieving Black professionals who are ready to stop surviving success and to start living it from a place of alignment, rest, and self-trust.
In this episode, Summer Esquerre, an ICF-certified somatic leadership coach and former corporate executive, and Dr. Reba Peoples, a board-certified psychiatrist, functional medicine practitioner, and emotional wellness strategist, discuss the pressure to “fix your face” and the difference between surface-level self-care and authentic, strategic wellness. The conversation explores how performing emotions and wellness can be confusing for a child and discusses the importance of expressing emotions like crying and anger as part of a wellness strategy.
You will find out:
•Why the phrase “better fix your face” can be confusing for a child.
•The difference between surface-level self-care (like bubble baths and massages) and true wellness as a lifestyle.
•The components of the Smart Wellness framework include sleep, physical movement, awareness practice, and tailoring inputs (nutrition, people, media).
•How being told not to cry can lead to an avoidant attachment style.
•That depression can be anger turned inward.
•The difference between reactive anger (operating in survival mode) and responding from a place of “righteous indignation” (frontal lobes in control).
•How working on the “window of tolerance” can help manage emotions.
•The necessity of community in healing, especially in a society that rewards “rugged individualism” and does not always value wellness.
•A somatic practice for community care: spending focused time with someone you care about over the next six weeks.
This talk is for the professional who has been told to “fix your face”. This talk is for the gifted, high-achieving Black professional struggling to prioritize their self-care in a demanding society. For those who feel like true wellness is a confusing and complicated topic, and those who have been told expressing emotion is “not safe”.
Embodied strategic wellness is a collective endeavor. Understanding, compassion, and regular practice are the first steps to healing. Use your body to listen. Take what helps you heal. Leave the rest.
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