
- Author, Self Care Matters: A Revolutionary’s Approach
- Author (forthcoming), The Inner Workplace Strategy
- Public Health Advocate · 10+ years
- EOS™ (Entrepreneurial Operating System) Trained Facilitator
- Certified Yoga Instructor (200Hr, TrueAlign Life)
- Guest Lecturer, Mercer University M.A. Counseling
- UN PFPAD Strategic Self-Care Facilitator
Anana Johari Harris Parris
Anana Johari Harris Parris is the founder and CEO of the Self Care Agency, LLC / Wellness & Justice Group and the architect of Life AlignmentOS™ — the proprietary framework that maps the direct relationship between personal wellness and professional goals. A distinguished public health advocate, business-development strategist, and organizational-strategy expert, she has spent more than a decade integrating wellness programming into the infrastructure of trauma-based and high-pressure workplaces.
Her pioneering approach to wellness as a form of social justice is captured in her acclaimed 2016 book, Self Care Matters: A Revolutionary’s Approach. In the years since publishing, the book’s Strategic Self-Care Training Program has crossed industry after industry — approved for training with the American Academy of Pediatrics, adopted as a required text for human-trafficking, domestic-violence, and trauma-survivor programs, and used as the primary self-care training tool for the Southern Center for Human Rights and the ProGeorgia Women of Color Initiative. She now extends that work in her soon-to-launch sophomore book, The Inner Workplace Strategy: Rebuild Alignment, and Show Up Better Protected at Work — a framework for protecting one’s capacity and showing up whole inside demanding professional environments.
The reach of her work spans law, public health, government, education, the arts, and human rights. She facilitated strategic self-care training for over 200 lawyers, judges, and legal professionals with the Training Division of the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts shortly after the U.S. Capitol insurrection, and served as the 2023 Strategic Self-Care Advocacy Facilitator for the United Nations Permanent Forum on People of African Descent (PFPAD) — a body established to provide expert advice and recommendations to the UN Human Rights Council, the Main Committees of the General Assembly, and the organs, programmes, funds, and agencies of the United Nations. In that role she brought strategic self-care directly into the international human-rights arena, equipping advocates working on the front lines of racial justice with the wellness infrastructure to sustain the work. Florida A&M University’s Agroecology Center named her its 2024 Lead Strategic Wellness & Self Care in the Workplace trainer, and she serves as a guest lecturer in Mercer University’s Master’s in Counseling program, where she has shaped emerging clinicians since 2021.
Beyond the framework, Anana is the founder of the nonprofit SisterCARE Alliance and the AfriSalsa Cultural Organization, and authored the first official Self Care Day Proclamation, now recognized across cities from Atlanta to Charlotte, Charleston, and Dallas–Fort Worth. As a former Fractional COO Advisor, she guided more than 30 law firms and business owners through infrastructure, systems, and revenue strategy — the same operational discipline she now encodes into Life AlignmentOS™. She also serves as former Vice President of Client Success at Stafi, 2026 Strategic Planning Consultant for the National Association for Public Defense, and COO & President of Synergistic Impact Strategies, and founded the entrepreneurial network The Evolve Network.
