our community partners

woodberry wellness

Tiffany Houchins
Woodberry Wellness

Woodberry Wellness, in Baltimore, Maryland, is an amazing community resource for healing. The practice owner, Tiffany, has been my own acupuncturist for over ten years. Check out their site to see the wealth of services they offer. I practiced there myself for 7 years, and many of these folks have been or are currently part of my own healing team.

ERIC JONES WILLIAMS
The Well House

Eric has become an amazing asset to my healing team. His gentle yet deeply effective manual therapy methods—sometimes enhanced by the addition of Reiki—have helped me to manage pain and relax deeply during a time when relaxing feels nearly impossible. He is also highly intuitive, and I often have epiphanies on the table from the messages he offers. I highly recommend him!

nyla mckraken

NYLA MCKRAKEN
THE STYLE WITCh

Nyla has been doing my hair for years, and I’ve never been happier. Her skill with color and cut is unrivaled, even with curly hair. She’s kind, courteous, knowledgeable, creative, and, when I’m in her chair, she always makes me feel like it is her top priority to give me the best hair imaginable. She’s currently working at Lock & Hue in Whitehall Mill—check her out!

raw made

RAW MADE
BRANDS AND WEBSITES

I cannot say enough about how amazing Enid of RAW Made is. This magical human helped me to create my brand, my website, and my vision for my business. She is intuitive, responsive, and supportive, and took my passion and turned it into a beautiful brand. If you have a small business, check out her services: she provides a variety of support for branding and growing your business.

words with boards

WORDS WITH BOARDS

Mike and Kim at Words with Boards do incredible custom, handmade cutting boards and other custom goods for entertaining. Their products are of such high quality that they caught the attention of Martha Stewart, Oprah, and Drew Barrymore, earning them many public accolades. They are also my neighbors at my new space in Union Mill! In addition to being good folks, they did an incredible job with my new signs! Check them out!

alpha graphics

ALPHA GRAPHICS

The folks at woman-owned Alpha Graphics were really patient and helpful as I figured out what I wanted my interior signs to look like in my new space, and they were great about giving me lots of options so that I had beautiful signs at a price I could afford as a newly established brick-and-mortar business. I worked with Kim, who was amazing at ensuring I had what I needed and that everything looked like I wanted—all at a reasonable price. I cannot more highly recommend them—another of my new neighbors!

yoga union

YOGA UNION

Another woman-owned business in my building, Yoga Union is a beautiful space with offerings for everybody. Cadie and Stephanie have created a community yoga space dedicated to providing the highest-quality group and private yoga classes, workshops, and events in a safe, inclusive yoga space. Their loving and well-trained teachers include a dear friend of mine and a yoga instructor I have studied with. Check out their offerings!

community causes

baltimore

baltimore non profits

The following organizations are doing important work in our community to decrease violence, support people and animals in need, dismantle racist systems, and offer platforms for Black and brown artists. Support them by volunteering or donating! Information is available on each of their websites.

  • A Revolutionary Summer is an intensive critical reading and writing program dedicated to shifting harmful narratives about Black women and girls through literature, art, political education, self-inquiry, yoga, and friendship.

  • The Baltimore Abortion Fund (BAF), founded in 2014, is a nonprofit organization that provides financial assistance and practical support to individuals who live in or travel to Maryland for abortion care. We serve clients residing in all 23 counties of Maryland and Baltimore City.

  • BARCS is a non-profit, 501(c)3 organization operating Maryland’s largest animal shelter and pet adoption center. We are an open-admission shelter, granting refuge to every abandoned, neglected, abused, lost or surrendered animal that comes through our door. A staggering 30 or more animals are surrendered to BARCS every day. No matter what the circumstance, we do not turn away any animal in need of shelter, food, medical care and a loving touch. Yearly, this equates to more than 10,000 dogs, cats, kittens, puppies, and even wildlife and exotic animals that need care and placement.

  • Baltimore Black Dance Collective Inc. is a 501c 3 non-profit dance advocacy organization that knows that our strength lies not only in the words we stand by, but most importantly through the actions of our initiatives. Back in 2019, our organization realized that there was something within the Baltimore dance community that was missing. For us and many others, that was the lack of representation & support of Black Dance artists and dance companies in the local arts scene. Being Black Dance artists ourselves, we decided it was time to shift what the Baltimore arts scene knows and experiences from Black Dance artists from across genres, from both seasoned & emerging dance artist as well as young dancers in the beginning of their training. By working together as co-founders, we strive to offer guidance, support, and visibility to Black Dance artists in the Baltimore area in order to share & preserve the legacy and history that exists & is continuing to develop here today.

  • At Baltimore Black Worker Center we strive to build the grassroots power of Black workers to promote racial and economic justice in the workplace and throughout our communities. We aim to increase access to quality and living-wage jobs, end discrimination in the workplace, redefine the meaning and possibilities of work, and advance a solidarity economy in Baltimore City.

  • The ultimate goal of Baltimore Peace Movement is for everyone in the city to feel so centered in their individual peace and joy that it causes peace to be the only experience Baltimore residents share with one another. "Peace Is The Promise" because, by nature, we all have peace inside of us, and we all have the ability to lean into that peace. This movement creates opportunities for Baltimore to notice, uplift, nurture, share, and bask in the peace that already exists within each of us.

  • The Black Arts District is dedicated to the empowerment of Black creatives and their communities. We do this through our four primary focus areas: Events and Activities, Training and Development, Advocacy and Education, Creative Placemaking.

  • Roca helps high-risk young men leave streets and gangs and go to work. Through relentless outreach, tailored programming and collaboration with community partners, Roca helps young men transform their lives.

*There are hundreds more organizations that are doing important work in our city. You can check out this Baltimore Sun article that gives a very long, but not exhaustive, list of amazing groups who are making the world a better place, right here in Baltimore.


NATIONWIDE & INTERNATIONAL

maui fires

Maui Fires

The wildfires on Maui (August 2023) have been completely devastating for the communities there. Whole towns have burned down, hundreds have lost their lives, even more have lost everything, including their homes. If you are willing and able to help, here are some organizations you can make donations to:

Maui Food Bank
Kakoʻo Maui
Hawai’i Community Foundation’s Maui Strong Fund
Aloha United Way
Maui Mutual Aid Fund
Hawai’i Restaurant Association (click here to support residents evacuated to Oahu)
American Red Cross Disaster Relief
Hawaii Salvation Army (I go on record as saying that I do not align myself with some of the beliefs of this Christian organization, but they are on the ground feeding thousands of people impacted by the fires.)

Crisis in Gaza and the middle east and the war in ukraine

There are situations all over the world where human rights are being violated, innocent people are being harmed and killed, and are lacking the resources they need to survive because of the conflicts in their countries. Consider donating to one of these organizations that help in these areas:

Doctors without Borders
International Rescue Committee
World Central Kitchen

seeking more guidance?

  • This is a fantastic app that features guided meditations, music, and talks from diverse creators. The amount of free content makes this my go-to choice for my daily meditation practice and something I consistently recommend to my clients. Download the app in your phone’s App Store, or listen through their website.

  • This is a great article that explores accounts of experiences with Reiki and the healing people are given with this amazing energy. Read the article.