The CARE Wellness Center

05/04/2026

💛 May the Fourth Be With You ✨

Stepping into this week with gratitude for our team’s intention, focus, and alignment last week.

We’re calling in clarity, alignment, and forward movement for our community members. Thank you to our team for submitting last week’s time for remote volunteer work and your S.M.A.R.T. goals for May — your consistency fuels this mission. We see you!

May clarity guide you, may peace surround you, and may the force of love be with you in all you do.

Let’s keep building, healing, and rising together.

Explore C.A.R.E. programs at www.carewellnesswa.org/programs and follow us on social media via

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Your voice helps keep our digital community alive and aligned.

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☀️ Summer Re‑Entry Program (May–July)

This is a reminder that through fundraising, our Summer Re‑Entry Program can run May through July every year for BIPOC adults after justice-involvement.

This program is central to our mission of healing, restoration, and community reintegration.

To learn more about our programs, please visit:

www.carewellnesswa.org/programs

🌿 May this week bring clarity, groundedness, and forward movement.

🌿 May the force of love truly be with you — in your work, your wellness, and your walk.

Let’s move with purpose, compassion, and alignment.

Your Community Steward,

L. DeeDee Anderson, Founder and CEO
[email protected]

04/29/2026

We encourage ourselves and others to shift our thinking from fear to love. From scarcity to abundance. From doubt to faith. From focusing on what we lack to recognizing how far we've come. From greed and consumerism to conservation and sustainability. From trying to control everything, to learning boundaries and radical acceptance. From being accusatory to taking accountabilty. From judging and shaming to grace and tolerance. It's about balance, and sometimes you have to unlearn things to restore that balance, and to embrace the discomfort of change in order to grow.

When you've been raised in cages, freedom feels like chaos.
When you've only known control, speaking your truth feels like rebellion. When love has been twisted into violence, kindness seems suspicious. When oppression becomes our norm, freedom itself can seem like madness, an impossible dream, something dangerous or unnatural.

Like birds born in a cage, we may come to fear the vastness of the open sky, believing our captivity is normal, even safe.

This is how oppression thrives, by convincing you that your wings are a defect, that flight is dangerous. But breaking free is your birthright, not betrayal.

Our souls were not made to remain caged, silent, or small. The longing we feel—that restless ache—is the call of our spirit reminding us of who we truly are. Flying isn’t the illness; the illness is in the cage that teaches us to doubt our own wings.

Don't let wounded voices define the limits of your skies.
Fly anyway. Rise anyway.
Freedom has always been your birthright.

꩜ Ella
Rebel Thriver

04/27/2026

🌱 Community Update & Gratitude 🌱

We’re deeply thankful for everyone who volunteered with C.A.R.E. last week—your time, energy, and love make this work possible.

This week we’re grounding into our Annual Work Plan, preparing for May events, and inviting our team to set clear, intentional goals for the month ahead.

As the seasons change and resources become more limited, we’re also recommitting to sustainability, eco‑conscious practices, and community care as acts of preparation and resilience.

Together, we grow. Together, we adapt. Together, we endure. 💚

03/26/2026

We are preparing for our annual Empowerment Retreat April 17-25 with our closest supporters. Registrations are now OPEN. We hope to see you there for C.A.R.E. information sessions and workshops, networking, movie screenings, campfire talks, nature walks, and healing circles.

12/26/2025

🎉Holiday Blessings from C.A.R.E. 🎁🎄

As the year turns, may you find space to rest deeply, rejuvenate your spirit, and honor peace in whatever way feels true to you. 🌿

Whether through quiet reflection, joyful gathering, or simply breathing into gratitude, remember that your well-being is sacred.

From our community to yours, we celebrate the beauty of choosing rest, renewal, and presence.

With gratitude,

C.A.R.E. Wellness Center

12/05/2025

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12/05/2025

"Seek out a tree and let it teach you stillness." —Eckhart Tolle

12/02/2025

Today is the day! Support wellness programs that work.

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11/30/2025

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We need your support to bring awareness to our cause and the wellness services and programs we have developed. We can be found on various channels for your convenience and best of all it's FREE!!

C.A.R.E. Website: https://carewellnesswa.org
C.A.R.E. on FB: facebook.com/carewellnesswa/ =_
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C.A.R.E. on Pinterest: https://in.pinterest.com/carewellnesscenterwa/
C.A.R.E. on LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/care-wellness-manager
Volunteering with C.A.R.E.: idealist.org/en/nonprofit/68798472e8ee447aab66f1e2973b84fe-christlike-agro-tourism-for-racial-equality-wellness-center-services-olympia
C.A.R.E. on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com//
S.A.F.E. Program Registration: eventbrite.com/organizations/events
Giving Tuesday on GiveButter: https://givebutter.com/givetocare
Giving Tuesday on PayPal: https://www.paypal.com/donate?campaign_id=ZPBMDC24GYPS8
Wellness Consultations on PayPal: https://www.paypal.com/ncp/payment/MUTNG68999J9N
Free Consultations on Calendly: https://calendly.com/carewellnesscenter/

Thanks so much!

11/29/2025

Special 📢SHOUT OUT🗣📣 to our volunteers during this holiday season!!

We've had so many wonderful and talented people join our organization to help develop our website, our policies and procedures, our systems, our programs!! Just to name a few leaders who really put the elbow grease on to consistently progress things: Kush, Kevin, David, Annie, Amina, Mahtab, and Kemie. Thank you so much for your investments in C.A.R.E. We wouldnt be where we are without the help of our volunteers!

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