Food, Fitness, Wellness + (mostly) Indigenous Voices

The Concept

Throughout Cherokee Nation, well sites and spring houses once served as community gathering places. These sites provided a water source, but were also cool places to store foods. This is a modest attempt to recreate such a space. A gathering place to experiment and share thoughts on life in Indian country, particularly health, wellness and sometimes politics. Listen to stories, tell stories, build each other up, laugh, love and lead.

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Built with other Indigenous women in mind, this is a place to share ideas and life hacks to help each other be stronger, healthier, more active, and reclaim/evolve Indigenous wellness in a realistic way. For me, that means eating more whole foods, more plant-based foods but still have an occassional big marbley ribeye. It also means saying yes to familiar/yummy things at community events, ceremony or family dinners, but knowing it just can’t be an everyday thing if I’m gonna be at the top of my game for the long haul. Many things about Indian country make it hard to sustain a healthy lifestyle and we won’t shy away from talking about that, and every thing else.

- Hosted by Stacy Leeds (Cherokee) with a lot of help from her friends

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