Alex Elle complicates the idea of self-care, opening it up as community-care, as a way towards generational healing. And she’s revivifying the meaning of meeting one’s “inner child” for a new generation. Our colleague Lily Percy says she could not have survived the physical isolation of the pandemic without Alex’s writing, teaching, and Instagram presence. So Krista hands over the mic to Lily for this conversation.

Listen to this excerpt from a conversation between Liliana Maria Percy Ruíz and Alex Elle on Self-care as Community-care from the On Being episode “Self-Care as Generational Healing.”