Ascend With Alicia

12/11/2025

November is both Native American Heritage Month & National Diabetes Awareness Month. As we honor Native American Heritage Month, we lift the resilience of our Native communities while also addressing the disparities that persist. American Indians in North Carolina have a 30% higher diabetes mortality rate than the state average (2024 Health Disparities Report).

One way we are addressing this is through the NC Minority Diabetes Prevention Program (MDPP), offered by the NCDHHS Office of Minority Health and Health Disparities.

What is NC MDPP?
• A free, year-long program to help prevent type 2 diabetes
• Based on the CDC’s Prevent T2 curriculum
• Led by trained lifestyle coaches
• Offered through local health departments, clinics, and nonprofits
• Built on community partnerships to reach and support minority and tribal communities

Together, we can honor Native strength and resilience while working toward healthier futures.

Learn More: https://www.ncdhhs.gov/divisions/office-minority-health-and-health-disparities/nc-minority-diabetes-prevention-program

12/03/2025

12/03/2025

Today is ! Native American communities are grossly underfunded and underrepresented when it comes to holiday giving. Did you know foundations gave $105 billion to nonprofits in 2022 and Native-led organizations receive less than 0.3% of those dollars. Any support today would be deeply appreciated 🪶

Donate link: www.tinyurl.com/DonateTNAS - we appreciate your support!!

11/30/2025

Native American Heritage Month is important for many reasons. Our services are rooted in cultural reverence. We hope you have found a way to honor the first stewards of this land today and always.

11/26/2025

Marriage and children are beautiful milestones which deserve to be celebrated. But there’s more to a meaningful life than the milestones we’re told to celebrate. And some of the most important victories are quiet ones no one sees.

Some wins won’t make an announcement - celebrate them anyway. 🙌💛

11/19/2025

Do what you can where you are with the power you have! I want to continue to remind us that times are not hopeless, we are not helpless or powerless. Here is one thing that I can do with my platform and circle of influence. What can/will you do?

If you are interested in registering this for this training, please visit SEAHEC.net linked in BIO.

11/18/2025

Western psychiatry has historically labeled Indigenous grief, Black resistance, or immigrant anxiety as pathology rather than responses to oppression. So therapy often educates marginalized people to see their reactions to systemic violence as personal defects, instead of as reasonable responses to racial trauma. In addition, Therapy often teaches people of color to cope with racism instead of confront, resist, or transform it.

A Eurocentric lens says:
• meditate through your oppression
• regulate your trauma
• adjust your thinking
• focus on the self, not the system

This produces “good, manageable clients”—not liberated ones. This turns therapy into an institutional tool designed to maintain the status quo.

In this essential conversation with Dr. Jennifer Mullan, author of Decolonizing Therapy: Oppression, Historical Trauma, and Politicizing Your Practice, we face a truth long evaded in Eurocentric clinical training:
Therapy is not—and has never been—neutral.

Register here: https://scienceandnonduality.com/event/therapy-is-not-neutral-a-decolonial-invitation-to-remember-relearn-and-resist/