Mental Health Check-In: Food, Feelings, & Connection
Mon, Feb 2, 11:00 PM - Tue, Feb 3, 2:00 AM GMT
401 Martin Luther King Junior Boulevard, Raleigh, NC, USA
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✨ Join Us for a Community Mental Health Check-In ✨🧠
Food, Feelings & Connection, a preventative wellness conversation centered on how food impacts our overall well-being beyond diet culture and restriction.
Globally, food is recognized as medicine, culture, and a cornerstone of community. This check-in invites us to begin approaching it in the same way, examining how our relationship with food shapes our well-being across multiple dimensions:
Mental | Emotional | Social | Physical | Sexual
From hormones and mood to energy, body confidence, libido, and interpersonal connection, food profoundly influences how we feel — and how we show up for ourselves and for one another.
Guided by an interdisciplinary panel of professionals and community leaders, this conversation will explore:
Food as Information, Not Morality
Releasing shame, diet culture, and “good vs. bad” food thinking
Food as Comfort — Without Guilt
Understanding emotional nourishment and compassion
From Our Plate to the Bedroom
How nourishment supports energy, hormones, confidence, and intimacy
Food as Preventative Care
Using nourishment to reduce stress, burnout, and long-term imbalance
Nourishment vs. Restriction
Shifting from control and deprivation to balance, sustainability, and care
Food, Culture & Connection
How ancestry, shared meals, and cultural traditions support belonging and social wellness
Organic: Marketing or Meaningful?
Understanding labels, access, and how to make informed choices without pressure or shame
This experience reflects a grassroots approach to wellness—neighbors, professionals, and organizers working side by side to ensure our community has access to holistic, non-clinical support. Trust is built not only through systems, but through shared spaces, honest conversation, and showing up for one another.
Food and drinks will be available for purchase.
Come curious.
Come open.
Come as you are. 🧡
💜 Please show up. There is strength in community. Your presence at this event will send a powerful message: We’re in this together.
If you would like to be on the panel, please reach out and let me know your area of expertise.
Hosted by Let’s Get Social Raleigh Foundation, Inc. in collaboration with the John P. Top Green African American Cultural Center
💜 Community support helps sustain this work. Donations are welcome and directly support preventative, community-based wellness programming. 501(c)(3) status pending.
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Mental Health Check-In: Food, Feelings, & Connection
Mon, Feb 2, 11:00 PM - Tue, Feb 3, 2:00 AM GMT
401 Martin Luther King Junior Boulevard, Raleigh, NC, USA
Hosts
About
✨ Join Us for a Community Mental Health Check-In ✨🧠
Food, Feelings & Connection, a preventative wellness conversation centered on how food impacts our overall well-being beyond diet culture and restriction.
Globally, food is recognized as medicine, culture, and a cornerstone of community. This check-in invites us to begin approaching it in the same way, examining how our relationship with food shapes our well-being across multiple dimensions:
Mental | Emotional | Social | Physical | Sexual
From hormones and mood to energy, body confidence, libido, and interpersonal connection, food profoundly influences how we feel — and how we show up for ourselves and for one another.
Guided by an interdisciplinary panel of professionals and community leaders, this conversation will explore:
Food as Information, Not Morality
Releasing shame, diet culture, and “good vs. bad” food thinking
Food as Comfort — Without Guilt
Understanding emotional nourishment and compassion
From Our Plate to the Bedroom
How nourishment supports energy, hormones, confidence, and intimacy
Food as Preventative Care
Using nourishment to reduce stress, burnout, and long-term imbalance
Nourishment vs. Restriction
Shifting from control and deprivation to balance, sustainability, and care
Food, Culture & Connection
How ancestry, shared meals, and cultural traditions support belonging and social wellness
Organic: Marketing or Meaningful?
Understanding labels, access, and how to make informed choices without pressure or shame
This experience reflects a grassroots approach to wellness—neighbors, professionals, and organizers working side by side to ensure our community has access to holistic, non-clinical support. Trust is built not only through systems, but through shared spaces, honest conversation, and showing up for one another.
Food and drinks will be available for purchase.
Come curious.
Come open.
Come as you are. 🧡
💜 Please show up. There is strength in community. Your presence at this event will send a powerful message: We’re in this together.
If you would like to be on the panel, please reach out and let me know your area of expertise.
Hosted by Let’s Get Social Raleigh Foundation, Inc. in collaboration with the John P. Top Green African American Cultural Center
💜 Community support helps sustain this work. Donations are welcome and directly support preventative, community-based wellness programming. 501(c)(3) status pending.
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Register to see all event details
Where your group belongs