The Black Man Project in partnership with Kindred Stories invites you to move toward wholeness and healing. 

EVENT DEETS: 

WHEN: May 29, 2022 @ 9 AM

WHERE: Kindred Stories Reading Garden (2304 Stuart Street, HTX 77004)

HOW: Limited spaces are available. Be sure to reserve you spot today!

ABOUT THE EVENT

As Mental Health Awareness Month comes to an end, we invite you to slow down and tap into yourselves. While we strongly believe in seeking outside help in order to step into your wholeness, we are also advocates of self-care. We have invited Black wellness practitioners to come and share their healing practices with us. Our hope is that you find something to add to your wellness routine. 

Tentative Schedule 

ABOUT THE BLACK MAN PROJECT

The Black Man Project explores the origins of how misconceptions such as one dimensional expression and emotional inaccessibility have come to be. We specifically explore the complexity of African American masculinity for young boys and simultaneously create safe spaces for black young men to engage in dialogue that grants space that nurtures healing, wholeness, leadership, accountability, and brotherhood. 

To learn more visit: www.theblackmanproject.com 

30 Card Deck

Negative self-talk sucks. But, like any bad habit with practice, you can make major improvements. "i am" everything™ affirmation cards will help you quiet the noise and focus on what makes you feel good.

"i am" is the most powerful phrase you can speak because what follows "i am" defines who you are in the moment. Strive every day to reaffirm your awesomeness. I am everything™ affirmation cards are a tool to remind you of all of your amazing qualities. You can shuffle the deck and draw one card and read it aloud to yourself every morning to start your day. Or, you can use them as needed by shuffling the deck and pulling a card in the moment.

Created by Tarisha Clark.

Dimensions: 2.75” x 4.75".

Why You'll Love It:

This is not your typical affirmation card deck; it's a prompt card deck, and you're going to love it! The Dear Self Prompt Card Deck was designed to help you self-coach and lovingly guide yourself into creating better feeling stories about yourself and your experiences.

Because the deck guides you to fill in the details that matter the most to you, your relationship with the deck will be as unique as you are.

Your work with the Dear Self Prompt cards may require a lot of thought and introspection, and we think that's why you'll enjoy them the most.

These cards are an outlet to spend quality time with yourself and stop self-limiting story-telling in its tracks.

What to Expect:

These prompt cards ask you to do work to reframe the stories you tell yourself. Each card features fill-in-the-blank spaces for you to create answers that are personal and relevant to you. Feel free to express yourself by completing the prompt aloud or through writing. 

These cards are sturdy but smooth satiny to the touch. The two-part box features a matte textured finish.

Good to Know:

• 52-Card Deck
• Created by Tarisha Clark
• Dimensions: 3.25” x 5.25"

D E T A I L S . 

The Mood Diffuser is made using a coconut-infused diffuser base blended with frankincense and myrrh. 

Our diffuser base is carcinogen-free, toxin-free, mutagen-free, cruelty-free, vegan, and phthalate-free. 

To use, remove the plastic cover and screw the bamboo lid back on. Tilt side to side to soak the inner bamboo channel. Be sure to not soak the strings. 

Size: 8ml. 

D E T A I L S .

Our energy cleanse bundle is perfect to rid negative energy from your space and restore positivity.

The bundle includes:

white sage + palo santo + selenite

B E N E F I T S .

+ white sage: used for purification and ridding spaces of negative energy. It is also know to reduce stress, boost mood, and improve quality of sleep.

+ palo santo: used to restore tranquility, peace, and positivity in spaces.

+ selenite: is a crystallized form of gypsum. It has been known to provide clarity, clear blocked energy, and elevate the spirit.

H O W   T O   U S E .

Light your smudge stick over a dish. Be sure to create as much smoke and as little flame as possible.

Cleanse yourself first. Direct the smoke towards your body starting at your feet, to your head, and then back again.

Now begin walking around your space keeping your intention clear.

The Nap Ministry's Rest Deck is a rousing call to reclaim rest in everyday life. Delivered in a stunning package with gold accents and gorgeous artwork throughout, the deck combines restorative meditations with prescient wisdom from celebrated activist and teaching artist Tricia Hersey, a.k.a. "the Nap Bishop," and founder of the Nap Ministry.

Readers will discover 50 inspiring cards, each with an empowering affirmation and a simple practice to encourage rest, care, and imagination. Rooted in social justice and imbued with spirituality, these cards offer short, accessible practices designed to uplift anyone suffering from the toxic effects of grind culture.

CELEBRATED AUTHOR: Tricia Hersey, a.k.a. "the Nap Bishop," is the founder of the Nap Ministry and the bestselling author of Rest is Resistance: A Manifesto. Her work as a social justice activist, artist, and thought leader has been featured by the New York Times, NPR, The Cut, and the Atlantic, among many others. In this deck, she distills her profound and celebrated teachings into 50 accessible practices. 
 
TOOL FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE: Brimming with practices to empower personal liberation as a step toward building a healthier, more just world, this deck offers readers a new way to engage with social justice and invites a wide audience to embrace the power of rest as an essential balm for our collective exhaustion. 
 
BEAUTIFUL TO GIFT AND DISPLAY: This bold, eye-catching package with colorful illustrations and gold accents is a beautiful and meaningful gift for friends, activists, and anyone feeling overwhelmed and exhausted by the demands of grind culture. 

• A powerful new tool for social justice activists
• Great gift or self-purchase for socially engaged millennials and Gen-Zers
• For anyone seeking mindful affirmation cards to aid their healing practice
• Perfect for fans of the Nap Ministry, Rest is Resistance: A Manifesto, Layla Saad, Adrienne Maree Brown, Chani Nicholas, and Alex Elle
• For readers of Me and White Supremacy, I’m Still Here, and How to Do Nothing

Strengthen the relationships that mean the most, heal with your sisters, and transform your life for the better with the licensed clinical psychologist who founded the award-winning podcast Therapy for Black Girls.

Sisterhood is that sacred space where all the masks that are worn for the world fall off. It’s the place where you lay down your load, refill your cup, and laugh until your belly aches. Our sister circles literally prolong our lives. However, building and keeping healthy friendships take work. How must these friendships evolve as we age? What practices can we put in place? Can they be the key to unlocking a more fulfilled existence? The answer is yes.

Dr. Joy Harden Bradford has been doing the work to help Black women heal together for more than twenty years. In a sisterhood community with more than half a million members, she’s the go-to therapist for Black women looking to prioritize their mental health and become the best possible versions of themselves. Now she’s sharing all she’s learned using the tenets of psychology and group therapy to help us foster relationships that are not only positive, but transformative.

In Sisterhood Heals you will

• discover the ways in which your present-day relationships with Black women have been influenced by your past
• identify the recurring role you play in your friend group and how it influences your relationships
• learn new strategies to grow and sustain healthy, nurturing friendships as well as how to rebuild after a rupture

Dr. Joy brings the warmth, wisdom, empathy, and levity found in our girlfriends to these pages, and reminds us that during difficult times sisterhood is often a lifeline with the power to help us experience fuller, more satisfying lives.

Ships in 7-10 business days.

"Each new day is a singular moment, a singular opportunity. No day is like the last and no day is like what’s to come. We have arrived, and we are simultaneously arriving.”  

In this expansive debut, A Recipe for More: Choosing a Life of Pleasure and Abundance, creative, host, and "pleasure doula" Sara Elise offers a profound and challenging inquiry into the forces that keep us in a state of survival and limitation and asks us to consider a new way to live. Sara Elise leaves us with what it means to be present to what’s unfolding around us and open to the change that is possible in that empty space.

A Recipe for More is a quest to examine the ingredients of our lives, those essential components that make up our days. Have we chosen rest, breath, movement, agency, visibility, play, and pleasure? Or are we trapped in the numbing and violent pattern of self-inflicted suffering? Do we celebrate the unique and precious wiring of our brains? Are our relationships a garden of ever-growing and evolving roots? Do we nourish our bodies with what it requires to sense and receive? Are we liberated, awakened, and alive? In the tradition of Adrienne Maree Brown and Sonya Renee Taylor, A Recipe for More is a radical argument for dismantling the systems that oppress us. But it begins with the individual, and the simple recipe of our every day. 

Groundbreaking, persuasive, inclusive, and warm, A Recipe for More brings the ingredients of an abundant life to all readers so that we might honor ourselves, deepen our communities, and finally be present in each miraculous and life-giving singular moment.

• Women looking for guidance on feminine empowerment
• Explorers of wellness and spirituality
• Fans of guided journals, tarot cards, and oracle decks that tap into inner wisdom and intuition, such as The Wild Unknown Alchemy Deck and Mystic Mondays Tarot
• Birthday, Galentine’s Day, holiday, or self-care gift for women