Beloved Blog
Join the Conversation
Want to write for us? Let us know! You can find our submission form here.
Reclaiming the right to rest
At Beloved Community, we are interested in how rest makes you more compassionate and allows you to connect with people as people more deeply. What does it mean to feel rest in your body? What can rest do for the ways that you show up for yourself and others? How does it unlock your ability to dream and create with abundance? There is so much available to us if we slow our brains and bodies down.
Let’s talk about sabbatical
“We have always named the impetus for our annual sabbatical as an opportunity for collective rest. It is also a way to honor the invisible labor that women do in the workplace and in our family structures.” Hear from Beloved Community leaders Rhonda J. Broussard and Stephanie Taylor as they discuss annual sabbatical + operationalizing collective rest.
Why Our Team is Going on Sabbatical This Month.
Our team at Beloved Community is going on sabbatical together. Not a retreat, not an internal strategy reflection, but a collective rest for the month of February.
What the Royal Team is Reading on Sabbatical
As we mindfully prepare to enter a period of rest and recharge, we here at Beloved have posed to ourselves, “How will I know when I am resting? When I am truly taking a break to recharge?” In response, a number of us on the Royal Team named “reading” as a way we know rest. As such, we joyfully share with you the books we look forward to diving into during our sabbatical as well as books with which we’ve had an ongoing love affair. We also share with you the names of a few Black-owned bookstores that we know, love, and seek to support in our communities.