Better With Ij wellness Clinic hosted our Black Wellness Pop-Up workshop. It brought together clinicians, entrepreneurs, and birth workers who are redefining what prevention and culturally aligned care look like in our community. The energy was intentional. The conversations were honest. And the message was clear: wellness is ownership—of our bodies, our knowledge, and our outcomes.
Here’s a recap of the powerhouse professionals who made it impactful.
Dr. Hazel Cebrun-Archie Owner Synthesis Health
website link www.synthesishealth.com
An ER physician and founder of Synthesis Health brought a powerful perspective: what she sees daily in emergency rooms are often preventable crises—hypertensive emergencies, uncontrolled diabetes, dehydration, metabolic complications.
Her integrative company was born out of a simple but urgent realization:
Food is frontline medicine.
Services Highlighted:
Community Benefit:
Provides practical nutrition access in culturally relevant spaces
Another featured vendor, a Black entrepreneur Mecury Liggins, shared her growing golden milk brand focused on whole-food nourishment and digestive health.
Her approach emphasized:
Community Benefit:
Promotes entrepreneurship within the Black wellness economy
When we buy from each other, we build economic resilience alongside physical wellness.
A dedicated doula provided education on prenatal advocacy, postpartum care, and informed consent.
In a country where Black women face disproportionately higher maternal morbidity and mortality rates, doula support is more than comforting—it’s protective.
Services Highlighted:
Community Benefit:
Improves maternal health outcomes
This is generational health in action.
Medication adherence and supplement confusion remain major barriers in chronic disease management. Our featured pharmacist offered personalized mini-consults and myth-busting education.
Services Highlighted:
Community Benefit:
Bridges the knowledge gap between prescription and lifestyle care
In communities where mistrust and miscommunication often exist, accessible pharmacist guidance builds safety and trust.
This wasn’t just an event. It was a model.
It demonstrated what happens when:
Black wellness is not a niche—it is a necessity.
As a nurse practitioner and community wellness advocate, I believe these collaborative spaces are how we shift outcomes long-term. Prevention. Education. Ownership. Access. Representation.
That’s how we close gaps.
And this is only the beginning.
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