BLACK WOMEN BLOOMING: Book talk + journaling workshop
About this Event
Join us for an intimate and nourishing afternoon with author and wellness writer , celebrating her powerful book Bloom How You Must—a love letter to Black women and the radical, ancestral practice of caring for ourselves and one another.
Our agenda includes:
- A brief reading from Bloom How You Must: A Black Woman's Guide to Self-Care and Generational Healing
- A lively, thoughtful conversation about Black women's self-care practices and how we can fortify ourselves for the forseeable future - think sister circle, not your traditional book talk
- Brief journaling workshop following prompts from Bloom How You Must, with take home materials
- Audience Q&A
- Book signing following the talk + workshop
Book sales provided by Prologue Bookstore.
About the book
Self-care isn’t a trend among Black women; it has always been a constant in our heritage. From Coretta Scott King, Betty Shabazz, and Myrlie Evers-Williams taking intentional pauses amid the Civil Rights Movement, to Rosa Parks practicing yoga, to Toni Morrison tending her gardens while writing literary classics, Bloom How You Must situates rest, joy, and community as acts of resilience and survival.
Bloom How You Must explores seven distinct pillars of wellness — physical, social, professional, spiritual, mental, emotional and creative — to encourage readers to think deeply about the origins of their wellness practices and how their past shapes the present.
An intentional mix of deep research, personal memoir and insightful interviews with more than 100 Black women ages 19-99, this book is an instruction manual to claim and shape new generational legacies around healing, wellness and self-care.
About the author
Tara Pringle Jefferson is author of Bloom How You Must: A Black Woman’s Guide to Self-Care and Generational Healing (Amistad/HarperCollins). A certified breathwork facilitator and wellness advocate, Jefferson is founder of The Self Care Suite, a digital wellness community for Black women. Over the last decade, Jefferson has brought her wellness expertise to corporate audiences including WW, SiriusXM, Wayfair, and Priceline. Her voice has been featured on New York magazine’s The Cut, Black Enterprise, and Essence. When she’s not writing, she finds peace among her houseplants and flowers. A Cleveland native, she lives in northeast Ohio with her husband and two children.
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