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Culture, Health, Mental Health

Trevor Noah, H.E.R., Big Sean, Oprah and More Come Together to Recognize Mental Health Awareness Month

If we’ve learned anything this past year, it’s that life is too short and unpredictable to continue to put our sanity and safety on the back burner. Whether that realization manifested itself in a positive or negative way, it’s pretty safe to say that the events of 2020 (and its third cousin, twice removed, 2021)…

By

Shanelle Genai

Published

May 3, 2021
Culture, Health

What's Good? Demystifying 'Self-Care'

Over the past several years, the term “self-care” has been gaining popularity—according to Google Trends, the number of searches for “self-care” has more than doubled since 2015. But what, specifically, is self-care? The term is over- and misused, meaning many people don’t quite understand exactly what it means. Does it mean you have to spend…

By

AskDrRenee

Published

May 3, 2021
Entertainment, Television

Corinne Foxx Gets Her Own Category on Beat Shazam and Talks Beating Her Anxiety, Too

Corinne Foxx, daughter of Jamie Foxx, is a pretty face, but she also has a brain; and for mental health awareness month, she’s adamant about talking about “brain health.” In addition to co-hosting Fox’s Beat Shazam, the weekly music series in which two brothers from Philly recently walked with a cool $1 million, Foxx was…

By

Angela Helm

Published

May 27, 2019