REST IS A PRACTICE. NOT A REWARD.
The Helpful Habit is a wellness community exploring the practices that help us quiet the noise, reconnect with ourselves and return to our own rhythm. Open to all, lovingly curated with Black women and mothers in mind.
YOU CAN REST HERE
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The Helpful Habit is a community that’s open to all but curated with mothers and Black women in mind. Rest is sacred, and contagious. You’ll feel it in the way we move, create, and hold one another. This is the helpful habit. Come as you are. Leave more whole.
REST REIMAGINED
Rest can mean:
Quieting sensory input.
Being in community where we don't have to perform.
Creating simply for the pleasure of creating.
Reconnecting with spirituality, meaning and ourselves.
REST IS MORE THAN SLEEP
Sometimes we need less stimulation.
Sometimes we need community.
Sometimes we need creativity.
Sometimes we need meaning.
OUR APPROACH TO REST
SENSORY REST
Space from stimulation, screens, sound, clutter and constant input. Positive scents, and environmental design.
QUIET THE NOISE.
SOCIAL REST
Connection that allows us to soften rather than requiring more from us.
EXPLORE REST
BE HELD. NOT PERFORMED FOR.
CREATIVE REST
Beauty, curiosity and creativity without the expectation of productivity.
EXPLORE REST
MAKE WITHOUT PRODUCING.
SPIRITUAL REST
Practices that reconnect us with purpose, presence, faith, ritual and ourselves.
EXPLORE REST
RETURN TO MEANING.
FROM THE JOURNAL
The Helpful Habit is a space to slow down, reconnect, and experience what becomes possible when rest is treated as sacred. This is a place to exhale, create, connect, and be fully yourself. Come as you are. Leave more whole.
a place to exhale
A NOTE TO COME BACK TO YOURSELF
Essays, practices, gatherings and gentle reminders from The Helpful Habit—sent occasionally, never urgently.
