I often find myself grappling with the price point of wellness- wellness events, activities, and experiences. Yes, I want to support AND (not but) I’m struggling with the value presented.
Let’s dig into it.
Read moreNo Work Wednesdays
What’s No Work Wednesday? Why did I start it? So far it’s going well. This is about self care and self preservation. Read more about it and get some joy in your life.
Read moreSelf Retreat 2021
Best Part of my trip to Colombia? Palenque
I wrote about my trip to Palenque which is a free town located an hour out of Cartagena. It has been and is currently an all Black town. There’s a ton of history, culture and traditions that I learned about. It’s a place I loved ( I want to return for to spend more time) and made my trip to Colombia complete.
Read moreEnvironmental Wellness: Let's Talk About it
This month, I’m focusing on environmental wellness. That’s one part of the dimensions of wellness I’m aiming to amplify. I simply want to introduce you to how I view environmental wellness and provide some resources that I’ve come across.
What is it?
Environmental wellness is your relationship with the outdoors + nature AND your awareness of, contribution towards and personal responsibility of Earth’s condition.
Read moreThe Wellness Reservoir, formerly the Well Space
Hey Muses!
A few months ago I started The Well Space on GroupMe because I wanted to create a community centered on uplifting and supporting one another on our various wellness goals. Ideally, folks in the group would find some overlap or similarities with their goals and would start checking in on another. A huge focus for museologie is creating community through the lens wellness. Well…that didn’t happen. I tried different approaches to engage everyone, but nothing worked. I was encouraged over & over to keep at it, so I did. I tried even more methods to engage, but still struggled.
I recently listened to Issa Rae’s MasterClass and she had a few take home messages:
Be consistent.
Create what you want to see.
Use your resources.
The story I want to tell is worth telling so work at it.
The most impactful thing she said (in episode 3) is as followed, “I would advise you to try, but know when to stop.”
I’d been feeling burdened by the group and the lack of engagement for well over a month, and after hearing Issa say that, it felt like affirming sign to end the group. I sent a message to the group explaining why I’m ending it and how I think there is a definite need for wellness accountability, but GroupMe wasn’t the right platform. I let them know I am open to feedback, then shut it down about 24 hours later. I felt good. It felt good.
I love the name The Well Space, but hesitated to use it because I know a business with the same name. Their focus wasn’t on health and wellness, but it is a Black owned, woman led business and it didn’t feel right. In true Jordan form, I grappled with the new name for the space that I’m cultivating to
uplift wellness practices.
support one another in our wellness goal
create events after covid around community and wellness.
Well, I got it.
The Wellness Reservoir. YES!! Yall like it?? Okay let me break it down. Wellness because that’s the focus and it must be in the name. Reservoir because it is defined as “a supply or source of something.” Museologie’s events are your weekly supply of wellness. yay!
Every Sunday I post the upcoming week’s wellness events and everyone is welcome to attend. This is to help with my consistency with the wellness practices AND it’s about building a supportive community around wellness practices and educational events.
Lastly, wellness isn’t just meditation and journaling. I’ve expressed these sentiments and am trying to figure out ways to incorporate the other dimensions: occupational, cultural, digital and etc. There’s more coming, I need to figure it out and that’s my focus for the next few weeks. Yes, I’ll still put out the weekly wellness calendar, but there’s more to museologie than that. I have to figure out what’s next, what’s sustainable and really, what i want to do and why.
xo - JM
Rest, my child.
Today I am finally tackling rest.
What does resting look like for you?
Do you have boundaries around your rest time?
Why is it important , to you, to have moments of rest in your life?
Wellness Practice: Gardening
Getting out and gardening has been a wellness practice for me during Covid shut downs and the unrest around the Black Lives Matter Movement. To talk about joys (and pains) of gardening one must go back and learn this history of farming and black farmers as well as the various solutions and movements that are educating and bringing power and ownership to us.
Read moreSo I Quit My Job: Part 4 (The Epilogue)
When I reflect on my time at TFT today, I am grateful. I learned SO much there that can take me in any direction. Starting at TFT I was fairly unaware about the intersections of food accessibility and the other social determinants of health. I had no idea about food justice + food sovereignty and I didn’t realize how screwed up the funding and philanthropy sectors are- the barriers that small organizations face, the white washing, the extreme power dynamics, etc.
Read moreDigital Wellness: What's the solution?
The feedback from the last digital wellness post was refreshing and I am this concept is resonating with so many. In this post I am discussing why a social media fast isn’t feasible, when I use my phone the most and what I’m doing to try and reduce my usage. Let’s talk about it!
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