Julia Craven

2 weeks ago | newamerica.org | Julia Craven

After a traumatic experience during her first pregnancy, Tonya Abari wasn’t sure she wanted to have children again. But when she found out she was pregnant, Abari was determined for this time to be different. She sought out Tanzye Hill, a Nashville-based doula she’d befriended in the interim, to help build a Black care team that would respect her.

2 weeks ago | healthyfutures.blog | Julia Craven

Hi Futurists!Healthy Futures is on hiatus for the month of April. This was a last-minute decision based on how burnt out I am. I didn’t really want to stop. I’m ecstatic about what I’ve got in the queue for y’all. But I’ve decided to practice what I preach so heavily: putting self-care first so I can show up in the best way possible for my community—which includes all ~3,000 of you! All regularly scheduled posts will resume next month.

3 weeks ago | healthyfutures.blog | Julia Craven

I read a lot of news articles, and I want to share them with you, but I don’t want to bombard you with posts. This isn’t that kind of newsletter. So I thought, why not collect the most compelling, thought-provoking, and informative pieces I’m reading throughout the month and then share them all on the last Friday? Welcome to Brain Food, a monthly post where I do just that.

1 month ago | healthyfutures.blog | Julia Craven

I saw a TikTok earlier this week that I can no longer find, which is par the course when you’re on the app as much as I am. I don’t always think to save things at the moment I see them—even when they spurn forth a new way of thinking about myself, a rare occurrence for a weary 32-year-old who remembers when social media was less concerned with optimization and perfection, who remembers when it was fun to be online and express yourself here.

1 month ago | healthyfutures.blog | Julia Craven

There’s a lot of noise in the health and wellness space—trends come and go, misinformation spreads fast, and sometimes it’s hard to know what (or who) to trust. This has been on my mind heavily as I’ve evolved as a writer and creator dedicated to providing accurate information to health and wellness consumers. So, going forward, I’ll regularly sit down with experts—scientists, doctors, researchers, and more—to get real, accurate, and solutions-focused answers to the questions that matter.