@paradiseparkatl The wellness world often forgets the women who hold the world. 💯🎉🌺
But tucked within 8 acres of lush Southern greenery, there’s a place doing it differently. At Paradise Park ATL, Black women aren’t afterthoughts — they’re the entire mission. ❤️💯🎉🌸

While many flock to luxury spas with marble and white robes, others are discovering something more rooted in heritage and legacy — healing in the soil, stillness by the river, herbs in hand. 🎉🎉 A Black-owned retreat space where the herbs are homegrown, the music is live, and the experience is unforgettable. 🥳

Where else can you stretch and release tension along the river, sip red raspberry tea harvested from the land, and get a farm-to-table vegan meal while sunflowers dance around you?

This weekend’s guest said it best:
“I didn’t know how badly I needed this until I felt my body relax for the first time in years.”
🌺🌺 Coming up soon:
🧘🏾‍♀️ A two-day virtual wellness retreat centered on reclaiming your radiance.
🌿 And a sacred one-day return to nature on August 24th.

This is more than self-care.
This is legacy care.

📅 When you’re ready to step into your longevity and legacy:
🌺🌺🌺📲 Visit ParadiseIsLife.BIZ
1️⃣ Submit your RSVP Inquiry
2️⃣ Schedule your Pathways Wellness Cons

This spring at Paradise Park ATL @paradiseparkatl has been nothing short of sacred. ❤️❤️❤️🥳 From solo seekers to visionary groups, we’ve been honored to hold space for so many beautiful souls who came to rest, reset, and reconnect with themselves in our wellness sanctuary.
🙏🏾 🌺🙏🏾 Thank you to each and every guest who trusted us with your hearts and healing—you are the reason this land feels so alive. Your joy, your breakthroughs, your stillness… they’ve filled Paradise with even more purpose.
As we step into summer, the river still flows.☀️
The butterflies return.
The green tomatoes ripen on the vine.
And our team is ready to welcome you home.🥰
Whether you’re seeking clarity, nourishment, stillness, or soul connection—there’s a retreat waiting with your name on it.
Upcoming Summer Retreats at Paradise Park ATL:
• Pause: Signature Day Retreat – May 25
• Mother’s Day Weekend Retreat – May 3 & 4
• Gardening & Pampering Retreat – May 18
• Signature Custom Retreats – Available by appointment

Visit paradiseislife.biz
Step 1: Complete your RSVP Inquiry
Step 2: Schedule your Pathways Retreat Consultation
The season has changed. Maybe it’s your turn now.

Did you know that during the dark days of SEGREGATION in the United States, Black families were forced to pay TAXES that built schools their own children could not enter? While white children sat in shiny classrooms with new books and warm heaters, many Black kids sat in crumbling buildings, sometimes with no desks, no heat, and torn books passed down like leftover scraps.

This painful TRUTH is not just a forgotten piece of history — it’s proof of the strength and sacrifice that Black communities made just to claim a BASIC RIGHT: EDUCATION. Even when the SYSTEM locked them out, they built their own schools, taught their own kids at home, and stood up to unfair laws.

Stories like this remind us that every time you walk freely into a classroom today, or send your child to a good school, someone before you PAID THE PRICE for that freedom — sometimes twice. Once with their taxes, again with their struggle.

This is why we must never let these stories fade. HISTORY is more than dates and old photos — it’s the sacrifice, sweat, and HOPE that built the world we live in today.

This fact is backed by the US National Park Service and the Equal Justice Initiative, which documented how Black families often funded schools through taxes while being banned from attending them. (Source: Equal Justice Initiative, Segregation in America Report, 2018)

If this story touched you, please FOLLOW our BACKUP page (@afrikan_echo) because our main Instagram is facing RESTRICTIONS for sharing too much TRUTH. Also, SUBSCRIBE to our YouTube channel (african_echo) for more deep stories about AFRICAN HISTORY they don’t teach in school.

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What do you think we can learn from these families who PAID FOR what they were denied? Type EQUALITY in the comments if you believe every child deserves FAIR EDUCATION!

Fact of the day: How an Abandoned Cement Plant Became One of the World’s Most Extraordinary Homes

When Spanish architect Ricardo Bofill stumbled upon a crumbling cement factory in 1973, he saw more than just decay — he saw potential. Over the following decades, he transformed the industrial ruin into his private residence and creative headquarters, now famously known as La Fábrica.

Rather than tearing it down, Bofill honored the building’s industrial soul. He preserved the towering silos, rugged pipes, and stark concrete walls, then reimagined them with lush greenery, expansive glass, and sleek modern finishes.

Inside, the space unfolds like a dream — with towering libraries, serene lounges, and workspaces that blur the line between nature and architecture. Every room tells a different story: a minimalist white office bathed in light, a dramatic crimson salon adorned with marble and velvet, and more.

Outside, untamed gardens and overgrown terraces wind their way around the massive structures, softening their brutalist form with palms, ivy, and blooming wildness.

The result is a breathtaking fusion of past and future — a surreal sanctuary that feels both ancient and avant-garde. La Fábrica stands as a legendary example of adaptive reuse, turning industrial ruin into architectural poetry.