Self Care for Advocates Presents: Self Care and Spring: New Beginnings Spring is universally associated with newness. A new season, as winter ends and we say goodbye to frigid temperatures and dreary weather. New growth, as plants begin to bloom and grow and in many cases whole landscapes can change to verdant green. The first […]
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Self Care for Advocates Presents: What is Self Care? Part 3 Self Care is Holistic Wellness To many people, a question without an answer is a frustrating concept. But some of these questions suffer not from a lack of answers, but far too many. For SCFA, that question is and always will be, What is
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Self Care For Advocates Presents: What is Self Care? Part 2: Comfort Food Welcome back to our next installment in Self Care for Advocate’s new blog series where we ask the illusive question, What is Self Care? Last time, the answer we explored was; Self Care is Friendship. Our guests Danielle Mars LMSW and Renee
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Welcome to Self Care for Advocates newest blog series: What is Self Care? In this series we will talk about what self care means, not just as a concept and practice but what it means to us as individuals. Join the SCFA team as we ask ourselves, our friends and our community, What is Self
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The recent killings of six Asian American women in Atlanta, GA are just one example of a wave of increased hate violence against Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders. We cannot, and should not, pretend that cultural violence is not a significant contributor to this epidemic nor can we ignore how the self-care field as a
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Getting angry about the state of our field is critical if we ever hope to change it. We know we deserve better. It’s time we start demanding it. “All I know is that first, you’ve got to get mad! [shouting] You’ve got to say: ‘I’m a human being, goddammit! My life has value!’ So, I
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