Colorism in Chronic Pain Management for Black Women

This livestream event is exposing the health disparties of African American (Black) Women through a critical lens of healthcare practictioners who are relunctant to provide quality patient care access for holistic health work-ups, treatment, and therapies to address the signs, symptoms and physical injuries of chronic pain. This livestream is just the beginning to revealing the personal and private experiences of African American (Black) Women that are suffering in silence and yet still expected to show up in greatness everyday all day.  

Topic Covered: 

• What is Colorism? 
• How does it look in healthcare?
• The value of recovery intervention
• My Why - Suffering to Soaring
• Case Study Review - Movie Clip - The Color Purple - Acting Reel of Desreta Jackson (the younger verison of Celie)
• Self Awareness Best Practices
• Call to Action - Dictating the terms for a better quality of life 
• Next steps

Nearly 100 million Americans experience chronic pain more than those who have diabetes, heart disease and cancer combined. September Pain Awareness Month to understand more about the underlying causes of pain can help improve treatments and alleviate suffering.

Therese W. Gamble is a Recovery Interventionist Coach, the founder of Suffering in Silence a Virtual Holistic Chronic Pain Management Recovery Accelerator for black women who are suffering in silence with chronic pain being managed with opioid dependency. Our mission is to safely educate and coach black women who are always called to show up in our greatness in public and neglected in private. So, that black women obtain the holistic recovery plan to take control of their lives with holistic intervention alternatives for a better quality of life.