This aspect of wellness explores the optimal ways to curate and maintain your personal space, how you might like to navigate through it and what you may choose to protect it from or invite into it. If we take it one step further, environmental wellness also extends beyond your personal space to larger communities, geographic areas and the rest of this floating rock too.
‘Climate change is not just a white people problem,’ Heizal Nagginda explains in the conversations she has within her Ugandan community. As people of the Earth, originally and spiritually, we must own our place in the ecosystem, voice our opinions and fight for the world we care for, on both large platforms and more intimate spaces too – for our sake and for the sake of those that will come after us.
Modern Black women are not only discovering finan- cial wellness now, but we are also being invited to join in on the conversation and even confidently invest, too. It’s something I hope in a decade’s time is more normalised than ever before. Financial wellness also includes being aware that every- one’s financial values, needs and circumstances are entirely unique to them and being able to navigate these conversa- tions within our own communities with or without the end goal being generational or community wealth.Intellectual wellness simply means growing intellectually, maintaining curiosity about all there is to learn, valuing lifelong learning and responding positively to intellectual challenges.