By Valerie Rice | January 11, 2021

Good evening readers! This has been one seriously messed up month, amiright? I wasn’t even going to pose another one of these for a while, but then I realized that I spend the majority of my time engaging in self care right now. Why? Well, we have spent the last year in a collective trauma that has resulted in an ongoing mass death event and, just for fun, witnessed a terrorist attack on the very heart of our democracy. For any U.S. citizen, or individual invested in safety from U.S. weaponry, this is a terrifying turn of events. I present to you today: The care and maintenance of your delicate mental state (tending your brain).

NATURE

Go outside and find a tree to hug. That may sound a bit cheeky (it is) but I actually do hug…