THE MOTHERSHIP
MENNA OLVERA
Wellness & functional-medicine practitioner, mindful-movement teacher, and the heart behind Prepare to Care(give).
A practice rooted
in lived experience
For more than two decades, Menna has worked at the meeting place of medicine and mindfulness, as an Urban Zen Integrative care program director, a teacher of restorative and movement practices, a guide for people navigating illness, healing, and the end of life.
Her own work in functional wellness, mindful movement, and restorative practice is the mothership, the deep well everything else flows from. Prepare to Care(give) is how she channels the lessons learned, the deep desire to serve families who carry caregiving on their shoulders.
Long before Prepare to Care(give) had a name, it had a beginning and that was at the bedside.
Why I Created It
From the bedside to a system
When Menna cared for her own parents, she discovered something years of professional training had only hinted at: even the most prepared among us are rarely ready to care(give.) The logistics, the grief, the exhaustion, the moments of profound tenderness and they all arrive at once.
As a program director of Urban Zen Integrative care, she had guided countless families through those same passages. She watched caregivers give until there was nothing left of themselves and she understood from her personal experience there had to be a better way.
Prepare to Care(give) is that better way: a program that prepares both the practical and the personal, so caregivers can show up whole. It is preparation as an act of love for the people we care for, and for ourselves.
Grace
Meeting hard moments, and ourselves, with gentleness instead of judgment.
What guides the work
Peace
Protecting the well-being of the caregiver, not only the person being cared for.
Strength
Preparation, knowledge, and steadiness gathered before the moment of need.
Let Menna help you prepare
Whether you're facing caregiving soon or already in it, there's a place for you to begin.
