“If we don’t start practicing collective self-care now, there’s no way to imagine, much less reach, a time of freedom.” — Angela Davis
The Singularity Botanicals Complementary Integrative Medicine (CIM) Team supports activists, activism, and social change movements.
To that end, the CIM Team offers holistic, multi-modality, regenerative treatments at the Wellness Center and online to those who serve and live on the front lines of marginalization.
During the Civil Rights and Women’s Movements, self-care which helped prevent activist burnout, evolved into a political act. Activist burnout occurs when movement organizers feel depressed, overwhelmed, hopeless, or frustrated after extensive periods of activism.
Rosa Parks practiced yoga for many years. While incarcerated, Angela Davis and Ericka Huggins of the Black Panther Party took care of themselves with yoga, mindfulness, and meditation practices.
Self-care wasn’t viewed as a luxury, but as a technique for self-empowerment to continue the fight for social justice.Self-care sustains us while we do the hard work.
“Caring for [ourselves] is self-preservation, and that’s an act of political warfare.” — Audre Lorde