Black Emotional and Mental Health Collective
@beamorg.bsky.social
BEAM funds, trains and resources an international network of grassroots wellness orgs, mental health institutions, and wellness practitioners across the world while holding healing spaces that center healing justice.
Fighting fascism helps us heal. Organizing helps us regulate. Resistance, paired with care for one another; especially when hatred is loud—reminds us of our sacred power.
Healing justice teaches us that we cannot retreat, detach, or disappear forever.
Healing justice teaches us that we cannot retreat, detach, or disappear forever.
January 14, 2026 at 7:40 PM
Fighting fascism helps us heal. Organizing helps us regulate. Resistance, paired with care for one another; especially when hatred is loud—reminds us of our sacred power.
Healing justice teaches us that we cannot retreat, detach, or disappear forever.
Healing justice teaches us that we cannot retreat, detach, or disappear forever.
How are you — for real?
We are living through an ongoing series of events and circumstances that have created collective tension, activated deep emotions, and heightened anxiety for many of us.
We are living through an ongoing series of events and circumstances that have created collective tension, activated deep emotions, and heightened anxiety for many of us.
January 6, 2026 at 8:19 PM
How are you — for real?
We are living through an ongoing series of events and circumstances that have created collective tension, activated deep emotions, and heightened anxiety for many of us.
We are living through an ongoing series of events and circumstances that have created collective tension, activated deep emotions, and heightened anxiety for many of us.
In a moment when our bodies and minds are under constant political stress — from state violence to medical racism to shrinking access to care — healing cannot be one-size-fits-all.
We have to hold multiple truths at once. Pharmaceutical companies have not always been allies to our communities.
We have to hold multiple truths at once. Pharmaceutical companies have not always been allies to our communities.
January 5, 2026 at 9:49 PM
In a moment when our bodies and minds are under constant political stress — from state violence to medical racism to shrinking access to care — healing cannot be one-size-fits-all.
We have to hold multiple truths at once. Pharmaceutical companies have not always been allies to our communities.
We have to hold multiple truths at once. Pharmaceutical companies have not always been allies to our communities.
This year, we’re encouraging honest reflection.
As we move into a new year, this is an invitation to pause and check in with ourselves.
Are our actions aligned with the care, boundaries, rest, and connection we say we value?
As we move into a new year, this is an invitation to pause and check in with ourselves.
Are our actions aligned with the care, boundaries, rest, and connection we say we value?
January 2, 2026 at 7:53 PM
This year, we’re encouraging honest reflection.
As we move into a new year, this is an invitation to pause and check in with ourselves.
Are our actions aligned with the care, boundaries, rest, and connection we say we value?
As we move into a new year, this is an invitation to pause and check in with ourselves.
Are our actions aligned with the care, boundaries, rest, and connection we say we value?
As we welcome 2026, we invite you to slow down and listen inward. Check out our Healing in the Present grounding journal prompts.
What is your body communicating to you right now?
What emotions are you carrying into the new year that deserve attention, tenderness, or release?
What is your body communicating to you right now?
What emotions are you carrying into the new year that deserve attention, tenderness, or release?
January 1, 2026 at 9:49 PM
As we welcome 2026, we invite you to slow down and listen inward. Check out our Healing in the Present grounding journal prompts.
What is your body communicating to you right now?
What emotions are you carrying into the new year that deserve attention, tenderness, or release?
What is your body communicating to you right now?
What emotions are you carrying into the new year that deserve attention, tenderness, or release?
As we close out the year, our Rooted in Care series invites you to pause and reflect.
These journal prompts are a space to explore the moments you honored yourself — and the moments you avoided your own care. Both hold wisdom.
These journal prompts are a space to explore the moments you honored yourself — and the moments you avoided your own care. Both hold wisdom.
December 26, 2025 at 8:28 PM
As we close out the year, our Rooted in Care series invites you to pause and reflect.
These journal prompts are a space to explore the moments you honored yourself — and the moments you avoided your own care. Both hold wisdom.
These journal prompts are a space to explore the moments you honored yourself — and the moments you avoided your own care. Both hold wisdom.
This is your reminder: isolation is not the answer—connection is.
In a world that pushes us to cope alone, community is a radical intervention.
Use our Community Care Plan to map your people, name your support, and build care on purpose.
Collective healing is how we survive this moment.
In a world that pushes us to cope alone, community is a radical intervention.
Use our Community Care Plan to map your people, name your support, and build care on purpose.
Collective healing is how we survive this moment.
December 18, 2025 at 7:43 PM
This is your reminder: isolation is not the answer—connection is.
In a world that pushes us to cope alone, community is a radical intervention.
Use our Community Care Plan to map your people, name your support, and build care on purpose.
Collective healing is how we survive this moment.
In a world that pushes us to cope alone, community is a radical intervention.
Use our Community Care Plan to map your people, name your support, and build care on purpose.
Collective healing is how we survive this moment.
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.
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.
Dr. Leo Moore Shares How Gratitude Helps Us Heal
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December 16, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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.
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. 💛
December 12, 2025 at 11:24 PM
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.
We’re honored that he’s using his platform to uplift mental health, emotional wellness, and community care.
December 4, 2025 at 5:51 PM
🖤⚡ 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.
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.
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.
Give to Black Healing! #mentalhealth
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December 2, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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.
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!
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!
November 28, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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!
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.
Rather than celebrate the false narrative of “Thanksgiving,” we hold space for truth, for healing, and for a commitment to healing justice.
November 27, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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.
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.
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.
November 26, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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.
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!
November 24, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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.
November 22, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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.
November 21, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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.
November 20, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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.
November 12, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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!
This holiday season, we’re back at it, and it all kicks off November 10th!
November 6, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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!
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.
Get ready for another round of direct community-centered support for parents and caregivers.
November 5, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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.
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.
Tor has been coordinating for people impacted by the fires in LA to access @quantumclinicsusa for float therapy, mediation, art therapy and more.
November 4, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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.
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 Rooted in Healing collection is a reminder that healing isn’t reserved for a few — it belongs to all of us.
October 29, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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 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.
Support takes many shapes and forms.
October 28, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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.
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.
October 17, 2025 at 7:02 PM
💙 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.