Tag: Tu Salud
‘Las Super Promotoras’ Improve Community with Empathy and Compassion
By Lisa Mitchell-Bennett, Special to MyRGV.com
I was first introduced to community health workers (CHWs), also referred to in Spanish as “promotores”, when I was...
Tu Salud: The deliberate act of being well
By Lisa Mitchell-Bennett, Tu Salud
Despite challenging circumstances, there are humans who are capable of finding a state of well-being even in the harshest of conditions....
Healthier options: Lifelong traveler makes Brownsville home, aims to help create change
Lisa Mitchell-Bennett was born in Mexico City but has lived all over the world including Peru, Costa Rica, California and Chiapas. In 1991, where...
Tu Salud: Food memories can lead to healthy choices
Our relationship with food is complicated and can reflect our deepest emotions and experiences. By being more aware of our relationship to food, including...
Making Second Chances Count
By Lisa Mitchell-Bennett
Like many of us, Christina Villarreal had a rough 2020, which started with the loss of her father, followed by her own...
TU SALUD: Lining up for food in a pandemic
BY LISA MITCHELL-BENNETT
It’s an unusually frigid December morning in South Texas. Many hours before the sun rises, the cars are lined up for at...
Aguilar helps others overcome during a pandemic
By Lisa Mitchell-Bennett, Special to the Herald
When Lucia Aguilar was as young as 9 years old, she remembers being her parents’ translator and interpreter...
Physical activity a good investment during a pandemic
By Lisa Mitchell-Bennett, Special to the Herald
When I first moved to Brownsvillein 1991, almost thirty years ago, there was literally one falling down private...
Physical activity a good investment during a pandemic
By Lisa Mitchell-Bennett, Special to the Herald
When I first moved to Brownsvillein 1991, almost thirty years ago, there was literally one falling down private...
