Self Care
Self-Care A-Z Blog
Self-Care A-Z—How To Have a Super-Self-Care-Summer: A Weekly Guide
The New Social Worker is going on summer break June-August and won’t be doing new posts. However, we’re not neglecting you! Join us in having a Super-Self-Care-Summer! Read more
Self-Care A-Z: Self-Care Is Elemental
Self-care interacts with and must be integrated into every aspect of life. As such, it’s linked to the five basic elements of nature: fire, water, earth, air, and space. Read more
Self-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, and “hear”-for-us. Read more
Self-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. Read more
The Book
Book Trailer: The A-to-Z Self-Care Handbook for Social Workers and Other Helping Professionals
Watch the book trailer for The A-to-Z Self-Care Handbook for Social Workers and Other Helping Professionals. Read more
Introducing...The A-to-Z Self-Care Handbook for Social Workers and Other Helping Professionals
Using an A-to-Z framework, the editors and contributors to this self-care handbook outline strategies for social workers/helping professionals to build a self-care plan with specific goals and ways to reach them realistically. Read more