Giving Us Our Flowers: A Wellness Check-In Curated by Black Girls Smile

Giving Us Our Flowers is a curated wellness experience for Black girls and young women. This pop-up style event provides a culturally responsive, affirming, and welcoming space for Black Black girls and young women to learn, share and advocate for their mental health. There has been a lot of discourse over the past few years about ‘giving people their flowers’ while they are alive and this tends to look like acknowledging those who have impacted our lives. We want to approach wellness through this lens of acknowledging those in our life that we want to celebrate while also celebrating our own mental health journeys.

In that spirit, this event will feature the following:

• A build-your-own wellness kit station where participants can choose wellness products, create affirmations for themselves and detail their own wellness plan. Participants will also be able to create a wellness kit for someone else that they want…