Las Adeltias Residents Take Time for Self-Care

Las Adelitas, a 141-unit Bond development in Cully, was opened late last year by Hacienda CDC, a community-based organization centered around serving the Latine community of Portland, and the Cully neighborhood in particular. This Latine Heritage Month, Hacienda's resident services staff held a Self-Care Workshop at Las Adelitas for residents and neighbors.

After serving calming lavender or peppermint tea, Resident Services Coordinator Heather Beck and her colleagues led the group, about half Latine and half Caucasian, with some Somali members, in a 10-minute guided meditation. They then asked participants to share what they do  to find inner peace in the hectic, modern world. Participants had a wide array of answers, like taking a walk in the park, talking to friends, or visiting family.

The group then turned to a game of "self-care bingo," using a self-care worksheet to think about commonly missed self-care activities like drinking enough water and getting enough sleep. Winners of the bingo game received locally-made doTerra essential oils as prizes.

"People have been stressed," says Heather, and workshops like this "give them a moment of respite. If they're a single mom, maybe sometimes they just want some peace. "I'm so lucky that these events are in my backyard,'" one participant told Heather.

Heather says she "would advocate self-care for everyone, but especially the Cully area." With greater focus on self-care, "we can be positive if we come together as a community."