Community care holds that unless the collective can be well, none of us can be well.
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Daphne K. Jenkins is the founder of Umauma Wellness and Ono Mau Goods.
Jamesa Hawthorne is a biracial Black, queer, and nonbinary femme herbalist.
They are the founder of JamHaw Herbals
Sydney Cutler-Abich is a meditation guide and founder of Ananda Meditation.
Annika Hansteen-Izora is a writer, artist, and the author of “Tenderness: An Honoring of my Queer Black Joy and Rage.”
In short: Each of us is only as well as our neighbors, locally and globally.
Community-care practitioners have tips for centering individuals and community over profit.
7 tips for how to practice meaningful community care, according to practitioners.
Community care, however, focuses on the human first rather than any supposed antidote.
Its important to me to offer more than a product that claims to be a solution in a bottle.
Wellness can feel exclusive and unattainable for most people, saysSydney Cutler-Abich, meditation guide and founder ofAnanda Meditation.
Being self-employed grants me the power to…support individuals and communities in the ways they are asking.
To me, investing in each others respite is community care.
These small practices of creating sustainable actions of care are an act of resistance.
Annika Hansteen-Izora is a writer, artist, and the author of “Tenderness: An Honoring of my Queer Black Joy and Rage.”
Hawthorne agrees that caring for oneself is a crucial ingredient to being able to practice community care.
So, practicing rest and encouraging others to do the same is an act of community care.
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