Community Care

This year as a JSK Journalism Fellow at Stanford I have been concentrating on designing tools for journalists to care for their mental health and wellbeing. Spaces, interactions, narratives that can foster culture changing conversations that engage media professionals individually or as a group. Yet, I regularly encounter a very…

Listen to this episode: Transcript Storytime: Mary had been feeling exhausted. She was a mom and a successful professional in her late thirties, with a demanding job, long hours, and unrelenting pressure to succeed — all of which had taken their toll on her physical and mental well-being. She decided…

I’m getting really concerned. A study that was published on Covid risks on the heart has shown a dramatic rise in heart attacks during the pandemic. While the risk of heart attacks were decreasing for years, we have seen an increase following the ongoing pandemic. …

(published in the Tillamook County Pioneer, 1/21/23 by Neal Lemery Last week, I learned that a good college friend had passed away. He wasn’t a particularly close friend in the usual ways with college friends. We did not often keep in touch, like many friends from our past. We’d run…

I’ve been hibernating for my birthdays. It is winter after all. And it’s just been feeling more and more right. To friends and family that haven’t heard from me lately — thanks for reaching out. I haven’t been okay for a long time, but I’ve been resourced and supported by…

NYC Mayor Adams Made Me Go Live — “Community Care… [is] about being there for people without them having to take the initial first step. It’s about adopting an ethos of compassion and very intentionally applying that.” — Nakita Valerio A few weeks back, the Executive Director of the Transformative Mental Health training org the Institute for the…

This is a brief overview of the layers of protection that we are applying at Abrome for the 2022–23 academic year. Abrome has been able to remain COVID free for the past three years of pandemic schooling. The success we have had in protecting each other and local communities from…

let me introduce you to radical self-care and community care — On self-care in an individualistic, capitalistic society Self-care is now trendy in our capitalistic system mostly because it is profitable. Between 2019 and 2020 Google Search Trends shows a 250% increase in self-care related searches. This growing trend resulted in creating an industry worth billions of dollars. Skincare products, crystals, essential oils, retreats, new comfy clothes —…

I want to tell you what this pandemic is doing to my heart. Not my mind, my body, or my soul. My heart. But first, a little background. I contracted Covid-19 in March of 2020 and it almost took my life. Before that, I was an able-bodied, yoga-practicing vegetarian who…