For months and years to come, Asheville will need massive support to recover from Hurricane Helene. This post includes my curated suggestions for where to donate, as well as my list of Asheville businesses, makers, artists, and healers to consider supporting with your holiday shopping.

If you’re always striving to meet impossible standards, I suggest gently starting to lower your expectations and increase your resources. Here are six ways to practice both. Audio version available.

We’re a product of hustle culture—where productivity is more important than wellbeing. Tricia Hersey is inviting us to rest because it’s our divine right, and because it will change the world. Audio version available.

Our bodies require regular, built-in recovery time. We aren’t meant to work, give, and perform at a high level around the clock. Audio version available.

A post giving you permission to not be OK, because things are not OK right now. What if we can use these hard feelings to build a better world? Audio version available.

This post explores how to navigate self-care and activism when you feel challenging emotions for an ailing world. When should you lean into your anger and heartbreak, and when should you let up? How can you transform your anger and heartbreak into focused action? Audio version available.

This 8-minute guided practice by Quinn Corte helps you transform your heartbreak and anger about injustices and tragedies in the world. You'll identify action steps that both fill a certain need and align with your unique capacity and gifts.

Here is an ongoing list of my favorite anti-oppression and wellness resources by BIPOC creators, authors, and educators. I'd love to hear from you in the comments: what single article, podcast episode, book, or documentary has most impacted your anti-oppression education or activism? 

An excerpt from the July 2021 email care package to subscribers, in which I shared our new website, 5 Ways to Transform Worry, Dismantling Perfectionism & White Supremacy, and links to great LGBTQ+ Pride content.

How is perfectionism an upholder of white supremacy? How is our fear of making mistakes holding us back from showing up as allies? Here are tangible strategies for dismantling perfectionism through anti-oppression work, repairing conflict, and resources for further learning. Audio version available.

The Retreat Space is a different kind of online wellness space. We are here to dismantle white supremacy, embrace the range of human experiences, and lift each other up. Here are our core values and how we put them into action.

An excerpt from the June 2021 email care package to subscribers, containing musings on embracing the uncertainty of change, lots of links to browse (especially about re-entry and reinvention), and our first essay in a series about anti-racism and wellness.

Reflecting on the one-year anniversary of George Floyd's murder, things have changed a lot and not nearly enough. I offer 5 ways to cultivate hope as activists when we feel overwhelmed by the magnitude and urgency of what needs to change.

An excerpt from the May 2021 email care package to subscribers, about gently and consciously emerging from isolation, links and readings for this unique season we are in, and a few small Boston creative businesses to support.

Announcing monthly email care packages! This is an excerpt from the April 2021 care package to email subscribers, just in time for the sloooow transition to spring. Contains anti-hate resources for supporting the AAPI community, reflections on the one-year anniversary of the pandemic in the US, and more.

The Retreat Space is 6 months old!

Thank you all for your feedback and participation in our first season. It was deeply experimental and so much fun. I've learned so much, and have gained greater clarity around how I can serve you during this challenging time.