HOW TO TAKE CARE

A simple but radical guidebook for anyone who wants to learn how to care for yourself and others.

Healing is not just for people who have their s&*t together. Healing is, most importantly, for people whose s&*t is falling apart. If your spinning plates are falling and breaking, then you're going to need extra help picking up the pieces. In HOW TO TAKE CARE, learn to honor your instinctive knowledge and your own process of feeling better, and take steps to healing trauma, anxiety, burnout, and more.

From A (adaptogenic herbs, ancestral healing) to Z (zoetic), HOW TO TAKE CARE is for anyone who is striving to reclaim a relationship with wholeness. It teaches real, practical steps towards freeing yourself from whatever is holding you back: slowly, with self-compassion, and one moment at a time. It covers everything from the grounding of a clean sink to the joy of growing a flower from seed. And it provides tools, techniques, and strategies to help us come back to our bodies and live in the present.

Erin Williams is the author and illustrator of five books, including Commute: An Illustrated Memoir of Female Shame and the Big Activity Book series. Her work has appeared in MoMA Magazine, The Believer, Salon, Buzzfeed, and Synapsis, among other publications. She has 10+ years experience in data analysis and scientific research, and has published multiple peer-reviewed papers on healthcare disparities and inequity in medicine. She lives in Westchester with her spouse, daughter, and a one-eyed cat named Peanut.

Kate Novotny is a parent, a poet, a nurse, and a doula. She has been present at the births of thousands of babies, at home, birth centers and hospitals. She hosts an online support group called the Taproot Doula Project that is a refuge during pregnancy, birth, postpartum, and motherhood.