How do you make your health a priority?

Lately, I haven’t been making my health a priority and that’s the honest truth. I’ve been readjusting to not having much of a routine at all. Focusing on the positive and staying emotionally satisfied has taken priority over physical health.

If you had asked me 6 months ago, my answer would have been working out and eating right. With my career having changed and a lot of my friends having left the city due to the pandemic, I connect with my friends and my family virtually and do things that make me happy, which includes eating delicious things. And I’m not upset with myself. It’s a strange world out there right now, but my routine has been completely thrown off. I’m rethinking a game plan, waiting to see where the cards fall, and taking care of myself during this time is about fostering peace of mind.

How have you overcome a certain stigma in your life?

Weed is my medicine. I am unofficially diagnosed with ADD/ADHD and medicine was stigmatized by my holistic family. It wasn’t until college that I could play with things to help my mindset and weed was and is a gamechanger. It’s calming and it helps me focus even though my focus might be lower than someone who is not stoned, it’s at least there. Without THC, there is no focus. When I do hair without weed, it does not go well.

“That’s how I really learned weed is not something I need to be embarrassed by because my work is better when I’m high.”

I smoke throughout the day to maintain that focus. It has an arc. In the afternoon, I smoke again to burst me through the end of the day. Then at night, it’s just for fun and however much I want!