Rooted Respite nurtures your emotional, mental, and spiritual well-being while you realize social change. By helping you contextualize, recover from, and prevent burnout, we help you keep what matters at the forefront: living.
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Rooted Respite
Rooted Respite nurtures your emotional, mental, and spiritual well-being while you realize social change. By helping you contextualize, recover from, and prevent burnout, we help you keep what matters at the forefront: living.
Hi Reader, After 20 years of seeing myself and my peers in advocacy and social change burn out repeatedly, I knew something needed to change. So, in 2023, I started Rooted Respite with one simple goal: support the people who are changing the world. Now in 2025, this work isn't just important—it's essential. For two years, I've been juggling Rooted Respite with a part-time job that also asked a lot of me. My energy was divided, and it limited how I showed up and what I could offer. As I watch...
October 2024Grief, Liberation & Wonder Hi Reader, One of my earliest memories is a moment of loss and grief. I'm three years old, catching a spider in an empty jam jar. I give it a name and watch it try to climb up the sides until it suddenly stops moving. My mom sits beside me on the bed and explains that living things need air to breathe. She tells me my spider didn't have enough oxygen as I sob into the crook of her arm. As I got older and experienced more loss and, in turn, grief, I...
Your Weekly Check-In October 04, 2024 Hi Reader, Take some time to reflect on this past week before heading into the weekend. This is a tool to help you understand your relationship to work, yourself, and your boundaries. Use the questions below as a guide to help you reflect on the week. Questions How did you stay aligned with your values this week? What help did you ask for this week? What from this week must you release before you can tend to your joy this weekend? What boundaries and...