More than an app.
Exhale envisions a world where Black Women/People thrive by providing well-being resources based on shared experiences, participation in systemic change that prioritizes Black Women's mental and emotional health, and ensuring culturally responsive care is the norm.
Exhale educates, advocates, and provides mental and emotional well-being resources for Black Women/People. We are committed to offering anti-racist online, digital, and in-person spaces that center Black Women/People and their experiences, allowing them to have culturally relevant content that aids their overall well-being.
Exhale Cares
Exhale is building a social movement, committed to prioritizing the mental and emotional health of Black Women resulting in Black Women and communities thriving. Through education, research, partnerships, and advocacy Exhale is creating structural change to disrupt how our society approaches mental and emotional health for Black Women.
Exhale centers Black Women as powerful change-makers in their families and community. We believe when Black Women are fully seen, they can fully heal, and as they heal, they heal others.
Exhale invests in Black Women by providing opportunities to engage in programming and solutions that address their specific needs. Those who engage do so through downloading tech solutions like Exhale App, attending workshops, well-being courses, group coaching, and research learning events.
Building a Social Movement
Investing in Black Women
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Education
Building and sustaining multi-generational change in the mental and emotional health of the Black community requires learning and unlearning. Exhale host workshops, courses, webinars, and organizational training that further our mission.
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Research
Systemic change happens when you listen to those negatively affected by the system; therefore, Exhale launched a national survey “The State of Self-Care for Black Women” Report to gather data on how to better serve Black Women and their overall well-being.
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Advocacy
To see equity and actual systems change, we are committed to advocating for that change. We are committed to building alliances with organizations, government agencies, and community organizers to combat discrimination and social barriers for Black Women.
“Exhale launched in 2020 in response to the stress, anxiety, and trauma my community was facing. COVID was impacting the Black Community disproportionately. The killings of Ahmaud, Breonna, George and others brought a level of stress, anxiety, and trauma that was overwhelming. Seeing these deaths play out in the news feed was traumatic.
I was searching for well-being resources and apps to aid in reducing the stress, anxiety, and trauma I was experiencing as a Black Woman, yet there were none. I was frustrated that mainstream well-being apps were not acknowledging the Black Community and our experiences.
Due to the lack of culturally responsive care, I created what I was looking for.
Since Exhale’s launch in 2020, we have reached 17,000+ Black Women and Women of Color in 55 countries. As a result, I founded Exhale’s non-profit, to implement my vision of educating, researching, and advocating for the mental and emotional health of Black Women/People. Exhale is a social movement committed to prioritizing Black Women/People and their overall well-being.
As a certified coach, I have spent several years coaching Black Women. Coaching has informed and fueled my vision. My career has been spent serving people who are often forgotten and on the furthest margins in our society. In addition, I co-founded and led a non-profit for 18 years that built a school in Zambia, Africa, for children without access to education, created a community center for at-risk children in my local neighborhood, and gave thousands of backpacks and school supplies to students in need.
My mother and grandmother taught me the importance of community care. It was a privilege for me to grow up in a Black community that nurtured and raised me. Being raised by Black Women, I learned early on that our world isn't set up for us to thrive. We deserve to thrive. This is Exhale’s work.
Launching Exhale feels full circle for me; it feels like coming home.”