Tender Picks

While wellness isn’t about spending money, these products, apps, and media may help bring some tenderness to your daily routine without breaking the bank. By investing in these, you’d also be supporting non-corporate entities — many of which are women-owned and/or Black-owned.

Total Peace & Wellness’s “Chill Tonic Tincture”

Not only does the full-spectrum 400mg formula include ashwagandha (which helps reduce anxiety), but this Black-owned business also donates 5% of sales to a non-profit striving to promote equity in Black and brown communities affected by mass incarceration.

Unwell Women

In her debut book, Elinor Cleghorn writes about the long, complex relationship between women and medical malpractice — myths, misdiagnoses, and more. Drawing on personal anecdotes, historical context, and case studies, Unwell Women paints a picture that every woman, especially women of color, disabled women, and plus-size women, can relate to.

Rebel Eaters Club

This podcast is the anti-diet culture fix that we’re all in need of right now. Hosted by writer and activist Virgie Tovar, Rebel Eaters Club features guests like dietitians, food journalists, and authors who talk about topics like the BMI myth, the connection between anti-blackness and fatphobia, and much, much more.

Insight Timer

With apps like Insight Timer, which contains 100,000 free meditations, meditation can happen anytime, anywhere — your commute to class, walking around grocery store aisles, or even during the pregame to the pregame. We don’t judge!

Kin Euphoric’s Kin Spritz

Sometimes, we need to let our bodies — and minds, quite frankly — take a break from substances. While simply taking a night off is helpful, exploring non-alcoholic options like Kin Euphorics’s Kin Spritz makes going out sober a fun option.

Exhale

Exhale is a well-being app designed by women of color, for women of color. The free app includes meditations, breath work, and affirmations curated specifically for Black, Indigenous, and women of color (BIWOC).

Unbound’s Bean Sex Toy

This toy has a variety of speeds and patterns, but it’s also nearly silent and accessible for all bodies. Bean is waterproof, can be used for solo- or parter-play, and costs only $30!