054 // Healing the Community Starts With Healing the Self w. BBP Eric Adams - a podcast by Meredith Wadsworth

Today's episode hyelights Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams to share his healing journey that has extended into the healing of the community.



We dive right in, covering everything from his experience with recovering from Type 2 diabetes through plant nutrition, his take on spirituality, and his efforts in office to bring greater access to lifestyle medicine to the community at large. We also discuss his experience working 20 years in the police force, including how he was one of the original advocates for police reform, and how we can all do our part in the building of healthier, stronger communities and, as a result, a healthier, stronger nation. 

Also discussed:

- gender roles we are told around health

- the process of unlearning, reprioritizing, reexamining life itself

- how stabilization of disease has lead to the normalization of disease

- the narratives that we accept about our health

- how a whole food, plant based diet returned his vision in 3 weeks!

- “our spirit has an anatomy: I didn’t want to be physically obese or spiritually obese”

- “we demonize the thought of the power of our own existence”

- how the spiritual body feeds into the communal body

- how he sees holistic health initiatives fitting into the community 

- how this health epidemic is shining a light on our entire health care system

- the importance of proactive education around healthy living within school systems and senior centers 

- intersectional environmentalism

- the civil rights organization he created while in the police force

- how our neighborhoods are more broken than ever

- the role of technology on this communication divide

- “we look at the meanness on a national level, but on a local level, we are really just nasty to each other”

- how we can get directly involved in our health and community reform

Links:

// Follow BP Eric Adams on Instagram @bkborohall

//  Episode 44: The Healing Power of Carbs w. Diabetes Experts Robby Barbaro + Cyrus Khambatta

// Follow me on IG @thehyelife

// work with me + book a free consultation

//  The Intuitive Kitchen Guide

// Take the HYE Road Workbook - the best place to start (besides the podcast) if you're new to me!

// Sign up for my weekly Newsletter

---

Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-hye-life-podcast/message
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/the-hye-life-podcast/support

Further episodes of The HYE Life Podcast

Further podcasts by Meredith Wadsworth

Website of Meredith Wadsworth