HIVegan

06/22/2025

DAY 7 of the 7-Day HIVegan Journey: Live Out Loud

This week, we built new habits, shifted mindsets, and nourished both body and soul. Now it’s time to integrate the most powerful tool of all: radical, unapologetic authenticity.

Today’s challenge: Live OUT LOUD.

Take the step you’ve been holding back.
Be visible in your truth, your health, your joy—especially in a world that tells you to shrink.

Healing isn’t quiet.
It’s vibrant. It’s powerful. It’s lived out loud.

Thank you for joining me on this journey. If you’ve felt even a spark of possibility this week, keep it going.

I’m here if you’re ready for more.

06/21/2025

DAY 6 of the 7-Day HIVegan Journey: Treat Your Body as Sacred
“This body? It’s not broken. It’s sacred.”

Living with HIV changes your relationship with your body. There are days when it feels like a battleground… but it’s also a place of healing, growth, and joy.

Today, I invite you to practice reverence.

💡 Prompt: What would it look like to treat your body with kindness today?

Maybe it’s drinking more water, taking a nap, moving with love, or simply looking in the mirror and saying “Thank you.”

You don’t have to be perfect.
You just have to be present.

Let’s start loving this body—not after it changes, but because it carries us forward every day.

06/20/2025

DAY 5 of the 7-Day HIVegan Journey: Rewire Your Mindset
“Your thoughts can be medicine—or they can be poison.”

This is one of the hardest lessons I’ve learned in 20+ years of living with HIV. The voice in my head? It had the power to keep me sick—or to help me heal.

So today’s challenge is simple but profound:

💡 Notice what you’re saying to yourself.
Would you say it to your best friend?
If not, it doesn’t belong in your head.

🔁 Prompt: Rewrite one limiting belief.
Replace it with a truth that serves you.
Let’s make your mind your ally—not your enemy.

Your brain is the most powerful organ you’ve got.
Let’s use it to thrive.

06/19/2025

DAY 4 of the 7-Day HIVegan Journey: Move Your Body
“Motion is emotion. Move your body, shift your state.”

It doesn’t take a marathon. It takes momentum.
I’ve spent years learning how movement can clear pain, anger, fear, and fatigue—not just from the body, but from the soul.

Today’s challenge: Move on purpose.
Put on music. Go for a walk. Lift something. Stretch something.
Whatever it is—move with intention.

We don’t just shift our bodies when we move—we shift our state of being.

Tag a friend who inspires you to keep moving 💪🏽

06/18/2025

This is a huge blow to my community. I tried to become a Trevor hotline counselor and I couldn’t handle the training and responsibility that comes with this heavy position. People will die. This is not making America great again. I hate what we are becoming.

The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration announced Tuesday that the 988 Su***de & Crisis Lifeline will no longer utilize its LGBTQ youth services, also known as the “Press 3 option,” effective July 17.

The agency said it will "no longer silo LGB+ youth services" — notably removing the "T" representing the trans community in the acronym — to "focus on serving all help seekers, including those previously served through the Press 3 option."

The Press 3 option rolled out as a pilot program in 2022 in a government contract with the Trevor Project, a su***de prevention and crisis intervention organization for LGBTQ people. Those in need of help would call 988 and be given the option to “press 3” to connect with counselors trained to assist people up to the age of 25.

Read more: nbcnews.app.link/Ue0H1S6ajUb

06/18/2025

DAY 3: Eat to Thrive
“This little leaf did more for my health than 10 years of meds.”

This isn’t just a catchy quote—it’s my truth. After years of living with HIV and managing meds, it was food that truly began to heal me.

I became The HIVegan not to follow a trend, but to reclaim my vitality.

💡 Today’s prompt:
Add one healing food to your day.
Start small—add something alive to your plate. kale, berries, avocado, garlic… the list goes on.

The goal isn’t perfection—it’s nourishment.

Share your favorite healing food below or tag someone who inspires you to eat better. 🍊🥦

06/17/2025

DAY 2 of the 7-Day HIVegan Journey:
Build Your Health Team

“Healing happens in community, not isolation.”

I’ve been living with HIV for over 20 years, and here’s one thing I know: trying to heal alone is a trap. We’re wired for connection.

Today’s focus is about building your healing team—people you trust to walk this journey with you. Not just doctors and therapists, but friends, coaches, peers, and allies.

📌 Prompt: Make a list of the people you lean on—and if that list feels short, today is the day to reach out and start building it.

Tag someone who’s helped you stay healthy—emotionally or physically.

Let them know they matter. 💬

06/16/2025

DAY 1: The Power of Ownership
"You can't heal what you pretend isn't there."

Today marks the first step of the 7-Day HIVegan Journey—and it starts with truth.

For those of us living with HIV/AIDS, owning our story is one of the most courageous things we’ll ever do. It’s not always pretty. But it’s powerful.

I’ve walked this road for over 20 years. And the moment I stopped hiding was the moment I started healing.

📌 Prompt for today:
Write your story—just for you.
Let go of the shame.
Truth is the foundation of freedom.
If the urge moves you, post a few sentences of it below and feel how freeing it is.

Share this post with someone who needs to hear it. Let’s reclaim our narratives. Together.

06/15/2025

💥 It starts NOW.
7 Days. 7 Steps. A new way to LIVE with HIV. 💪🌈

I created this journey from my heart—and my healing.
Inspired by the TED Talk I will give one day, this is a week-long guide to help you stop surviving and start THRIVING. Whether you're newly diagnosed, long-term surviving, or simply want to live a fuller, stronger, more joyful life—this is for you.

🗓 Each day, I’ll post one focus area—bite-sized, actionable, and designed to shift your health and mindset.

This isn’t about shame.
It’s about strength.
Let’s do this together. 💚

👇 Tag a friend who needs this.
📍Follow along at .us and let’s rewrite the story.

06/14/2025

Don’t worry, I got him!! 🔪