Building Your Care Village: Seeking a Primary Physician as a Person of Colour
LaToya Hinds LaToya Hinds

Building Your Care Village: Seeking a Primary Physician as a Person of Colour

If you’ve ever felt rushed, dismissed, or misunderstood in a medical appointment, you’re not imagining it. Many people of colour have experienced care that didn’t fully listen, explain, understand, or reflect their lived reality. That’s why choosing the right primary physician is so important.

For people of colour, this search often requires added layers of trust and self-advocacy. Your primary physician is often the front door to the health system. They help with prevention, referrals, tests, and long-term care. When this relationship works, everything else works better.

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Seasonal Affective Disorder: Combating the Winter Blues
LaToya Hinds LaToya Hinds

Seasonal Affective Disorder: Combating the Winter Blues

Shorter days, less sunlight, and disrupted routines due to snowstorms or frigid temperatures can affect mood, energy, and focus. If winter leaves you feeling tired, low, unmotivated, or “not quite yourself,” you’re not weak, you’re not alone.

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New Year, New Benefits: Understanding and Mapping Out Benefits for 2026
LaToya Hinds LaToya Hinds

New Year, New Benefits: Understanding and Mapping Out Benefits for 2026

If you’ve ever said, “I don’t even know what my benefits cover,” you’re not alone. Many people lose hundreds or even thousands of dollars in unused health benefits every year. Not because they don’t care about their health, but because many people tend to wait until they feel sick to engage in health services.

Let’s change that.

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Stories of impact: When the Sun is Not Enough, My Journey with Vitamin D Deficiency after childbirth
LaToya Hinds LaToya Hinds

Stories of impact: When the Sun is Not Enough, My Journey with Vitamin D Deficiency after childbirth

When people find out you're pregnant everyone talks about a happy healthy baby.

You go in, lay on a table or squat or sit in a pool, birth your child and this wonderful chapter begins. There are no conversations about what if your child needs a little bit more care in the beginning. What if it’s ongoing? What if I need care? If I seek out care while my child needs care, does that make me a bad mom?

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