Gratitude isn’t just a feel-good practice — it’s a health practice. In this video, Dr. Leo More @growwithdrleo breaks down how expressing gratitude can help lower blood pressure and support both your mental and physical well-being.

This holiday season, BEAM continued our commitment to supporting Black and marginalized parents through The Parent Support Fund: Holiday Edition ‘25. Together, we made an impact. 💛

🖤⚡ Big news! NFL cornerback Emmanuel Forbes Jr. has selected BEAM as his featured cause for this year’s My Cause My Cleats campaign. We’re honored that he’s using his platform to uplift mental health, emotional wellness, and community care.

This Giving Tuesday, we’re choosing us. Because across philanthropy, Black mental health and healing justice are being deprioritized—even as our communities face attacks, displacement, and rising mental health distress. But at BEAM, we refuse to abandon our people.

Our Rooted in Healing merch is 20% OFF this weekend! This series of apparel is very special to us, and was designed with you in mind. Wear your affirmation. Honor your healing. Support the movement and our healing work! Don’t miss your chance to grab your favorites while they’re on sale!

Today, we choose to honor Indigenous people — their resilience, their stewardship of this land, and the generations who have survived unimaginable harm. Rather than celebrate the false narrative of “Thanksgiving,” we hold space for truth, for healing, and for a commitment to healing justice.

As we move through the holiday season, especially gatherings centered around food, let’s practice care with our words. Negative comments about Black people’s bodies — what we eat, how we look, how we “should” show up — don’t support our healing. They reinforce shame.

Whether it’s “that one auntie”, a distant uncle, an estranged sibling, or Cousin Faith 👀 — we know how it can get when everyone isn’t on the same page in the book of healing, and that’s okay!

Shifts in seasons, weather, and climates can cause many of our folks to retreat into undesirable feelings and emotions. BEAM’s programs are more than events — they’re spaces to connect, reflect, and gather with community.

Yesterday was a day FULL of healing! We started off the day with community members for another restorative flotation rest therapy session at @quantumclinicusa and partnered with Barber Gurus in Leimert Park for their Village Circle.

On this Trans Day of Remembrance, we remember and celebrate the life of Miss Major Griffin-Gracy - an organizer, healer and advocate for Black trans women impacted by policing, incarceration, and violence.

In our communities, silence has often been a survival strategy — but it can also become a barrier to healing. Keeping things to our selves does not always keep us safe, but it does encourage isolation.

Last quarter, BEAM’s Parent Support Fund reached 42 families across 12 states, redistributing $8.4K directly to caregivers getting ready for Back to School ’25. This holiday season, we’re back at it, and it all kicks off November 10th!

SAVE THE DATE! Mark your calendars! Set your alarms! BEAM’s Parent Support Fund returns on November 10, 2025. Get ready for another round of direct community-centered support for parents and caregivers.

Today we want to celebrate @torbjorncrawford who leads our Altadena and Pasadena community care work!! Tor has been coordinating for people impacted by the fires in LA to access @quantumclinicsusa for float therapy, mediation, art therapy and more.

It is your birthright no matter where you were born. It is your birthright no matter who or how you love. It is your birthright no matter what shape or ability your body holds. Our Rooted in Healing collection is a reminder that healing isn’t reserved for a few — it belongs to all of us.

Our hearts are with the Caribbean as Hurricane Melissa approaches Jamaica. At BEAM, we’re uplifting the incredible people and teams already on the ground making moves to provide relief. Support takes many shapes and forms.

💙 Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) is one of the most stigmatized mental health diagnoses — and even its name carries harm. The term “borderline” comes from outdated ideas about “being on the border” of psychosis, a framing that pathologized pain and misunderstood trauma.

Healing belongs to all of us. 🌱  Our new BEAM tee is a reminder — healing isn’t linear, but it’s ours to claim. As we honor survivors, caretakers, and anyone moving through their own healing journey this month, we’re wearing our reminder loud: “I have the power to heal.”

We know the term "mood disorder" can feel heavy — even pathologizing. But it’s the language most commonly used to describe emotional states that become hard to manage over time. We are always thinking of new language and how to name our experiences without this framing.

Our communities have the power to heal! Healing doesn’t only happen in hospitals — it happens in living rooms, barbershops, church pews, front porches, and block parties. It happens when we choose care, connection, and collective action.

On World Mental Health Day, we are affirming our right to reimagine mental health care. To align with our mission, we’ve launched our Rooted in Healing initiative including a t-shirt collection to affirm our communities. Learn more & grab yours today! beam-community.myshopify.com/collections/...

Art is activism. Creating art that inspires us to resist and reimagine helps the movement for care and healing justice to continue. Here is a very small sneak peek of some projects the BEAM team has been working on!!!! Stay tuned for more!!! There even might be some giveaways coming….👀

What’s happening in Sudan is not just a political crisis—it’s a human one. Displacement. Violence. Disconnection from care and home. As healers, organizers, and community members, we recognize that healing justice must be global. Our liberation is bound together.

Last week in Atlanta, BEAM gathered community for the Black Masculinity (Re)imagined Summit. Together we shared moments of connection through sound baths, healing circles, sacred pauses, and meals — creating space to rest, reflect, and reimagine what masculinity can mean for Black folks.

When is the last time you checked-in with yourself to evaluate how you show up for Black women? On World Suicide Prevention Day, we center the care, protection, and healing of Black women.

What happens when Black men and Black masculine folks of ALL GENDERS come together to rewrite the story of masculinity? On Sept 14 in Atlanta, BEAM’s Black Masculinity (Re)imagined Summit is creating space for truth, healing, and liberation. A day of power, peace, and possibility.

This September at BEAM!  We're diving deep into Herbalism & Black Farming as Healing and Resistance—rooted in legacy, liberation, and community care. From powerful Heart Space gatherings to Black Masculinity Reimagined and Healing Justice in HR, we’re reclaiming our wellness, one event at a time.

What if HR was more than just rules and policies? These are the questions our leadership team has grappled with, and worked to integrate healing-centered practices into a field often designed for punishment and rigidity.

✨ NYC Casting Call ✨ We’re looking for Black, queer, and trans models of all body sizes who feel comfortable in front of the camera to be part of BEAM’s upcoming campaign.

When we say Black, we mean EVERYBODY Black.  Blackness is not one story, one language, or one flag. It spans across continents, cultures, and histories — including the voices, brilliance, and resilience of Black immigrants in the United States.

Parenting is powerful, but it can also be overwhelming, especially while managing mental health. Black and marginalized parents and caregivers — we see you, and we’re here to support you. BEAM is giving out $10,000 in direct financial support through The Parent Support Fund!

Did somebody say Flashback Friday??? POV: You brought your full self to Black Healing Remixed and captured it on film. Remember back in the day before camera phones? When you had to snap your film camera hoping you got the shot to cherish the memory? That’s how this year’s BHR felt—so full, so alive

This Juneteenth, BEAM made big contributions to our folks by supporting families across the nation — and we’re just getting started! In our continued effort to uplift and empower Black families, here’s a quick look at the change we’ve made so far:

Tomorrow’s the day! 💜 BEAM is bringing the Heart Space Healing Circle to Pasadena for the very first time, and we couldn’t be more excited. We want you to join us on Tuesday, August 19th for this very special moment. Come as you are. 🫶🏾 #Pasadena #Altadena #BlackHealing

What’s Heart Space all about? It’s where folks come to breathe, feel and heal—together. Where we build on the practices of Indigenous and African culture to hold collective space for healing. Created by @yoloakili + @natalieispoetry, Heart Space is a Black-led healing circle with real tools.

We’re bringing Black Masculinity (Re)Imagined to ATL!! Created for Black men and masculine folks in the wellness space, Black Masculinity Reimagined invites you to reconnect while shattering the stigma around vulnerability, unlearning shame, patriarchy and dismantling the pressure to perform.

What’s up fam?! We’re excited to announce that our team will be shifting our monthly Heart Space from Inglewood to Pasadena. BEAM aims to answer the call to show up and be present with joy, resources, and tools to promote the strength and resilience of the Pasadena community.

Leadership rooted in healing hits different. Join us tomorrow, Aug 6th for Emotionally Intelligent Leadership 101 — a virtual training for Black leaders & organizers who are committed to healing justice! 1–3PM PT / 4–6PM ET RSVP: beam.community/events #HealingJustice #LiberatedLeadership

Protect Trans youth. Period. Trans and nonbinary young people deserve safety, joy, and futures full of possibility—not policies rooted in fear and control. Whether it’s at school, at home, or in the community—we all have a role to play in making sure Trans youth are seen, supported and protected.

Our Creative Projects Manager, Skye Barclay, breaks down The Black Virtual Wellness Directory- a space to find Black wellness practitioners across mental health, bodywork, breath-work, energy healing, and more. It’s built for us—so you don’t have to navigate your healing alone. Healing is communal.

The last Episode of Season Two is here fam, and Dr. Evan Auguste is bringing us home! Join us for this brilliant episode where Dr. Evan joins our Executive Director Yolo Akili and breaks down the legacy of healing in Ayiti, Ancestral healing, Black Masculinity and much more.

When the world sees us as commodity, we lean into connection and community—especially family. BEAM’s GLOW model helps us care with intention and clarity. It’s a tool to help us think, how can I pour into and support family wherever they are in their healing journey?

This Black August, we honor the legacy of Black revolutionaries—and the parents & caregivers passing that legacy on. As a new school year begins, we see you teaching truth, holding space, and nurturing power in systems that often don’t. See all out events here: tinyurl.com/2t58uuvs

Healing is a family matter. Through our Parent Support Fund, we’ve given nearly $60K to parents living with mental health conditions—or raising kids who are. When care is scarce, we build it—rooted in love, dignity, and healing justice. This is care in motion. beam.kindful.com?campaign=136...

Join us for a powerful conversation on how we can protect and support our communities right where we are. We’re diving deep into what healing justice really looks like in action—and how each of us has a role to play. www.eventbrite.com/e/when-the-s...

"Don’t let the news mislead you. Across the world, in every hood and in every borough the people are fighting back." from the desk of @yoloakili.bsky.social

It’s Fibroid Awareness Month. At BEAM, we know fibroids impact more than the body—they carry emotional and mental weight too. We’re holding space for real pain, real stories and real healing. #FibroidAwarenessMonth #BEAMWellness #ReproductiveJustice

Join us for “When the System Pulls Back, We Pull Up”—a virtual convo on grassroots healing + community care as public health systems fail. With @yoloakili.bsky.social, Natalie Patterson & Joëlle Dussek. Click here to register: www.eventbrite.com/e/1478019729... #BEAMWellness

"No matter what's going on, there's always a reason to smile. I guarantee you can find at least one reason to smile. And if for some reason you can't find a reason to smile, then that's probably the best time to be the reason for somebody else to smile." - Malcolm-Jamal Warner #RestinPower