Category: GirlTREK’s Self-Care School

Like Morgan said, Madam CJ Walker wasn’t just the first self-made woman millionaire in the U.S.—she was a blueprint for what it means to build something from the ground up, to invest in your community, and to make rest and beauty a part of the business plan. A part of…

This week, we’re lifting up the legacy of Fannie Lou Hamer—a visionary who understood that healing a community meant healing the body too. She knew liberation couldn’t happen if folks were hungry or disconnected from the land.  So I wanna share a passage from Working the Roots, an oral history…

In The Hand I Fan With by Tina McElroy Ansa, the main character Lena starts off as a woman with a packed schedule and a powerful presence. She’s sharp, successful, and always doing for others. Fanning the whole community. But when she meets Herman—a soft-spoken, grounded man with an old…

When we talk about meditation, prayer, breathwork—sometimes we picture folks sitting cross-legged, humming “om,” or deep in yogic stillness. Although the pics of Rosa Parks practicing yoga are some of my favorites, for many of our foremothers, mindfulness looked a little different. It looked like sitting on the porch and…

Self-Care School is a 10-week podcast series by GirlTREK. Every Friday features Trelani Michelle, sharing elder/ancestral wisdom through personal observation and book excerpts. You can also listen in versus reading here: This week, we’re talking Body Reset 101, how we reclaim our health by tapping into the wisdom of our…