Self-Care A-Z: Wake Up From Career Sleepwalking With Professional Self-Care
Career sleepwalking is characterized by inaction and/or lack of inspiration and motivation about your career. Without intervention, it can have detrimental consequences for your social work practice,...
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View ArticleSelf-Care A-Z: Minding Our Self-Care P’s and Q’s
A winter pause inspired some P’s and Q’s that can deepen and strengthen our self-care. Here, Erlene considers 5 P’s. Her next post will discuss Q’s of self-care, i.e., asking critical, clarifying key...
View ArticleSelf-Care A-Z: Mind Your Q’s—Better Questions Are Keys to Better Self-Care
What’s your guiding self-care question? Typically, we assume answers are the most aspect of life. But questions matter more. Mind your P’s…and Q’s! Here’s a sampling of 11 questions to spark ideas for...
View ArticleSelf-Care A-Z: 4 Self-Care Principles To Reach Your Visionary Goals and Feel...
I was convinced I was practicing “effective” self-care! However, I merely used self-care as a luxury, a pamper session, the latest item acquisition. True self-care is more than an addendum, an...
View ArticleSelf-Care A-Z: Use These Strategies To Cope With Feeling Disconnected
Feeling disconnected? You’re not alone. We all need healthy human contact. Use these self-care strategies to decrease isolation and feelings of disconnect.
View ArticleSelf-Care A-Z: “Break Barriers” by Strengthening Connections—Self-Care And...
Self-care is necessary to foster a world in which barriers are not merely broken nor are practitioners battered and burnt out by battling these barriers. With self-care as an essential systemic thread,...
View ArticleSelf-Care A-Z: World Social Work Day - The Importance of Self-Care for...
As part of this World Social Work Day celebration, we consider the key question: How does diversity affect our own self-care and, by extension, our abilities to join others in social action?
View ArticleSelf-Care A-Z: Earth Day and Self-Care—It’s All Connected
You might be surprised to see the topic of planetary well-being on a blog focused on self-care. Yet, Earth Day is an ideal occasion to talk about the inextricable and important connection between...
View ArticleSelf-Care A-Z: Self-Care Is a Big Deal
All of us have times in life that feel particularly like a “big deal.” But, we owe it to ourselves to honor our human nature, which includes navigating life’s highs and lows while taking care of...
View ArticleSelf-Care A-Z: Accountability and Self-Care—When a 7-Year-Old Back-Seat...
Self-care does not just happen. We need to be intentional about accountability that holds us to our commitments. As such, devising successful self-care plans requires intentionally considering what...
View ArticleSelf-Care A-Z: A Road Trip to Self-Care
One way to think about self-care is by using the metaphor of a road trip. Just like a road trip, self-care requires planning, preparation, and a clear destination.
View ArticleSelf-Care A-Z—The Black 🖤 Blog: A Celebration of Juneteenth/Self-Care is...
Juneteenth is June 19th. I’ve been reflecting on how this important holiday highlights the crucial need for attention to self-care and self-love in the Black community.
View ArticleSelf-Care A-Z: “Should” Shonda vs. Self-Care Shonda - Which Are You?
A big barrier to self-care success is how much we should on our self-care. Are you more like "Should" Shonda or Self-Care Shonda?
View ArticleSelf-Care A-Z: From Wish to Want to Will—Making a Well Way Toward Self-Care
Wishing is often a significant aspect of a self-care journey. I wish sounds like a positive thing, right? Yet, actually, I’ve noticed I wish often becomes a “but” barrier. It morphs into an obstacle of...
View ArticleSelf-Care A-Z: Sharing Self-Care “Recipes”
Practicing self-care is akin to learning how to cook a life-menu that nurtures, fuels, pleasures, and satisfies. What is on your menu?
View ArticleDaily Doses of Self-Care for September, Self-Care Awareness Month—2023
In celebration of the 7-year anniversary of the Self-Care A-Z blog and of September Self-Care Awareness Month, we invite you to deepen awareness and activation of self-care. Please use our...
View ArticleSelf-Care A-Z: Maybe It's Me?
"Maybe it’s me" can be a painful insight. It’s critical that we don’t internalize it as blame and shame. Explored compassionately, this insight can be empowering.
View ArticleA Byrd’s Eye View of Self-Care: Sometimes It’s Okay—And, Actually...
Why isn’t it okay for me to take a few minutes out of my day and focus solely on myself? Or, be completely disinclined to exert myself for one hour? Why am I expected to be excessively or exclusively...
View ArticleSelf-Care A-Z: An ARC for Self-Care—Appreciate, Recognize, and Construct
We realized we’ve each used a similar pattern to make small, positive changes in our lives. As a self-care approach, it gives a structure that can be replicated. We named the pattern ARC. Appreciate,...
View ArticleSelf-Care A-Z: Self-Care Is the Lifeline That Prepares You To Power Up Your...
Resiliency is not a fixed construct or static experience. As you embrace a self-care practice that you feel good about, resiliency increases. How will you use the lifeline of self-care to power up your...
View ArticleSelf-Care A-Z: F-That - Flexibility as a Form of Self-Care
When you find yourself saying “F-that,” consider taking it as an opportunity to incorporate flexibility as a form of self-care. This prioritization will likely mean approaching situations critically,...
View ArticleSelf-Care A-Z: Self-Care During Poopy Times
We all experience poopy times. With a good enough focus and some gratitude, this, too, shall pass.
View ArticleSelf-Care A-Z: A Power-Full Message About Self-Care as Paramount for Empowerment
You might wonder what self-care has to do with empowerment. Actually, they’re inextricably related. Like empowerment, self-care is a process of increasing strengths and developing influence toward...
View ArticleWorld Social Work Day 2024—Buen Vivir: A Shared Future for Transformative...
This year’s World Social Work Day theme is Buen Vivir: Shared Future for Transformative Change. Expansive self-care is necessary to achieve this agenda.
View ArticleSelf-Care A-Z: Life Writing Is a Self-Care Skill
Write freely. Be your quirky self. Don’t worry that what you say must mean something. Begin with the ordinary. When you start with the small stuff, you discover there is no small stuff.
View ArticleSelf-Care A-Z: Sense-ible Self-Care
Self-care needs to be readily accessible and make sense. One of our most accessible forms of self-care is, literally, in-plain-sight, next-to-our-skin, on-the-tip-of-our-tongue, in-front-of-our nose,...
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