Self Care Resources

“We all long for loving community. It enhances life’s joy. But many of us seek community solely to escape the fear of being alone. Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them for a means to escape.” — bell hooks (all about love, pg. 140)

Meditation

Insight Timer

Insight Timer is a free meditation app with features that allow you to track your progress as you implement a regular practice. Free guided meditations, timers with ambient sounds or music, and community features, and analytics allow for a customized meditation experience.

Headspace

Headspace is a guide to mindfulness for everyday life. Learn meditation and mindfulness skills from experts and choose from hundreds of guided meditations on everything from managing stress and anxiety to sleep, focus, and mind-body health. One year free for unemployed people.

Insight LA Meditation

Insight LA offers the highest quality of teachings, rooted in the insight wisdom tradition, and are a global leader in a shift of consciousness and compassion. Insight LA create an inclusive, diverse and joyful community meant to be a refuge for all.

Shine App

Shine is a BIPOC-run meditation and mental wellness app designed to provide inclusive self-care tools for dealing with day-to-day emotional highs and lows. The Shine app is a support system for daily stress and anxiety.

Talk Therapy

Open Path Psychotherapy Collective

Open Path Psychotherapy Collective is a non-profit nationwide network of mental health professionals dedicated to providing in-office mental health care—at a steeply reduced rate—to individuals, couples, children, and families in need.

Talkspace

Talkspace is a convenient way to connect with a licensed therapist through your smartphone or computer. Send your therapist text, audio, picture, and video messages at any time, and they will respond daily, 5x/week. If you’re looking for the “face-to-face” therapy experience, Talkspace offers Live Video Sessions so you and your therapist can plan to connect in real-time.

Journaling

Me and White Supremacy Workbook

Created by Layla F. Saad, Me And White Supremacy Workbook is a one of a kind self-guided workbook and personal anti-racism tool that has been designed to help you to take ownership of your participation in the oppressive system of white supremacy, and to help you take responsibility for dismantling the way that this system manifests both within you and within your communities.

Five Minute Journal App

The Five Minute Journal App asks you three morning questions designed to instill gratitude, set purpose for your day, and create empowering beliefs. When you start your morning off on the right foot, days seem to go by smoother. The app is designed for people who want to start a daily journaling practice, yet need the help in building up the habit, and for those who want to constantly reflect and improve their lives.