· By Kyndall Osibodu
Collective Care
✨Collective Care✨
It’s been really hard showing up here these last few days. As I shared during my launch/Mother’s Day weekend, it’s difficult to find and hold joy in the presence of so much grief. But I am reminded that we are stronger together. In collective movement and in collective solidarity.
Last Saturday, I went to @spikedwellness Spiked Mama event, a celebration of mothers. I left feeling so grateful to be in a room of moms of color. It is in these very spaces that I feel most like myself. I don’t have to pretend to be someone I’m not. I can show up in my softness and vulnerability. There aren’t many spaces like this in the running/wellness community. So I look forward to finding them... Or maybe even creating them.
Yesterday we closed out Maternal Mental Health Month. While TRA will always be for everyone, I’m more committed than ever to center the well-being of moms. Collective care means we look out for folks and do our best to be a village to others.
I hope everyone is tending to themselves, their people, andddd their neighbors as best they know how.
PS. I’ve re-linked the organizations I support below that are doing important work to support families in Sudan, G@za, and the US. If anyone has recs for orgs to support in Haiti and the Congo, let me know and I will add them. Every dollar counts. Please give what you can.
@sudansolidaritycollective
@mecaforpeace
@birthcenterequitybce
@littlesunpeople
#collectivecare #belovedcommunity #runnersofIG #runners #running #mentalhealth #maternalhealth #maternalmentalhealth #blackmaternalhealth #motherrunner #prentalwellness #postpartum #postpartumwellness #spikedmama #spikedwellness #rest #recovery #mothersday
It’s been really hard showing up here these last few days. As I shared during my launch/Mother’s Day weekend, it’s difficult to find and hold joy in the presence of so much grief. But I am reminded that we are stronger together. In collective movement and in collective solidarity.
Last Saturday, I went to @spikedwellness Spiked Mama event, a celebration of mothers. I left feeling so grateful to be in a room of moms of color. It is in these very spaces that I feel most like myself. I don’t have to pretend to be someone I’m not. I can show up in my softness and vulnerability. There aren’t many spaces like this in the running/wellness community. So I look forward to finding them... Or maybe even creating them.
Yesterday we closed out Maternal Mental Health Month. While TRA will always be for everyone, I’m more committed than ever to center the well-being of moms. Collective care means we look out for folks and do our best to be a village to others.
I hope everyone is tending to themselves, their people, andddd their neighbors as best they know how.
PS. I’ve re-linked the organizations I support below that are doing important work to support families in Sudan, G@za, and the US. If anyone has recs for orgs to support in Haiti and the Congo, let me know and I will add them. Every dollar counts. Please give what you can.
@sudansolidaritycollective
@mecaforpeace
@birthcenterequitybce
@littlesunpeople
#collectivecare #belovedcommunity #runnersofIG #runners #running #mentalhealth #maternalhealth #maternalmentalhealth #blackmaternalhealth #motherrunner #prentalwellness #postpartum #postpartumwellness #spikedmama #spikedwellness #rest #recovery #mothersday