Couple care: Will & Heather Packer – Essence

Peary-Care is a fascinating essence.com series that highlights inspiring partnerships in our community. Every couple discusses how “couple care” maintains their relationship, as well as self -care lessons they learned from each other. In this printed iteration of the column “rooted in Love”, three strenuous duos – will & heather Packer, Wes & Dawn Moore and Dewanna Bonner & Alyssa Thomas – awaken the curtain, which keeps their love strong.

For Will and Heather Packer, the saying “Hard, harder” is not just a saying. It is a lifestyle. Will is a producer, known for films such as customers, and has recently been obsessed and over the past: the millions of dollars. Heather’s specialist knowledge in marketing and consumer psychology drives your flourishing company – to which the brand you have searched for includes the Packer Family Foundation. Her daily life is an endless whirlwind of meetings and dazzling appearances of the red carpet, which were recently interrupted by their exciting new roles as minority owners of the Atlanta Falcons. To mention unnecessarily that they are both on the road.

The couple has been telling a random love story for 15 years, which is associated with the legacy of the Essence Festival of Culture. Her fateful meeting in New Orleans in 2009 not only triggered her connection, but also inspired it NAACP Image Award winning film -Girls trip. How does the customers want to promote this year, Heather’s Company sponsored a Riverboat cruise for black actors who took part in the festival. On board the Steamboat Natchez, the two flew a conversation that, like the river itself, took hours and marked the beginning of their journey together. “We should both be on the boat because we would hit our soul mate there,” says Will about the memory. “We were both intended to be on this boat.”

Four years later, wants to propose on the main stage at the Essence Festival – and since then the packers have been accompanied on the hip. Like Yin and Yang, the two polar opposites are – but they fit together like perfect puzzle pieces and complement the strengths and weaknesses of the other.

The packers seem to have found the youth fountain. It is not just Heather’s introduction of retinol in Will’s skin care routine that looks young. It is her talent to keep music – a metaphor to take life to the fullest. They radiate a timeless energy and a timeline that keeps them alive and connected, regardless of whether they have the red carpet or have removed the calm beauty of everyday moments from the spotlight.

“We are both in our early 50s now,” says Will. “So you come to a certain age, you have to think about this next phase, right? Everyone gets older. Your body begins to worsen and collapse – but you want to live the best version of yourself in this next life level with your partner with the person you love. ”

Below, Will and Heather Dish on their self-care routines, the power of couple care and their secrets for permanent love.

Your favorite memory mirroring

Heather: We have many small, spontaneous moments – as I plan to cook dinner last night, and it was the most beautiful sunset. And he said, “Do you know what? Stop cooking. Let us jump on the jet ski and watch the sunset. “And I’m like” done! ” We jumped onto the jet ski, went out and literally sat in the water, in the Golf – and watched the sunset. It was absolutely beautiful.

Your individual self -care routines

Heather: I like to hike and I love to be one with nature – so we support the personal time of the other because this personal growth is important. I enjoy it in the kitchen and experiment with recipes. And he always appreciates my kitchen. I also like to meditate and that’s something that I obviously do alone. Or read. I also like my bathing time.

Will: I am a runner, so I’ll get out and do it. I like to run it and have my quiet time – just on the paths, in the parks and along the streets. I like driving and training the dating I do for self-care. It is usually about finding paths to mentally undress the plug. I am also a big, enthusiastic sports fan. We are both. We both love football.

Your couple care

Heather: We get massages together. We have a constant massaged mining here in the house.

The self -care lessons you learned from each other

Will: You started my face cleaning. I wasn’t a big washing type-it was just not my thing. So my face was dirty until I hit my wife! Now she has me on a skin care regime. So my side of the shower looks like an incredibly attentive side of the shower. I have a few small bottles, oils and creams, and yes, I learned – “you do it in this order” and the like.

Heather: He is devoting himself to standing up and training methodically like every day or five days a week. He is very, very disciplined. I’m not as disciplined as he is when it comes to it. I train – but not him. So that pushes me. It is difficult for me to see how he gets up and goes to the gym and train every morning and not do something myself. So he gives me this energy and inspires this commitment to my physical health.

The products you presented with each other

Heather: Ole Henriksen is one of my favorite brands of facial products. He doesn’t know. I only put it in there.

Will: There are a number of bottles that are told me to use it and she tells me exactly how to use them. You would have to ask the names.

Why a couple care is so important for your relationship

Will: Health is prosperity. If they flow into themselves, they also flow into each other. Because we have something that we say: that we keep the others happy. If I keep you happy – right –

Heather: And I keep him happy –

Will: – Then she will make sure that I am happy. If I make sure that she is happy when I have a happy partner, she will make sure that I am happy. And vice versa. And so that means that you talk about a couple care, it means that you have to flow into your partner and you can then flow into you. Because if she is empty, does not feel good and not healthy, she can’t do anything for me. She has to make sure that it is good at first. So I have to do what I can to try to support them and do it properly. And then it will do exactly the same for me. It becomes a positive cycle of mutual care.