Bloom How You Must: A Guided Workshop with Tara Pringle Jefferson
About this Event
Join us for an intimate and nourishing afternoon with author and wellness writer Tara Pringle Jefferson, 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.
Bloom How You Must reminds us that self-care is not a trend for Black women—it is a throughline in our history. 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, this book situates rest, joy, and community as acts of resilience and survival.
Blending guidebook and journal, Bloom How You Must excavates the roots of self-care and community care and transforms them into a practical, affirming blueprint for modern life. Drawing on research from leading wellness experts, interviews with women aged 19–99, personal stories, and reflection exercises, the book offers readers a grounded path toward a less stressful, more intentional way of living.
Our agenda includes:
- A brief reading from Bloom How You Must
- A lively, thoughtful conversation about Black women's self-care practices and how we can fortify ourselves for the foreseeable future
- Audience Q&A
- Wellness journaling workshop following prompts from Bloom How You Must
- Book signing following the talk + workshop
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.
Where is it happening?
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USD 11.49
