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Self-care is a vital but often overlooked component of support necessary to the work of administrators, teachers, counselors and other invested staff. To effectively care for and teach your students, we must learn to care for ourselves.

A Critical Support

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A Critical Support

Self-care is a vital but often overlooked component of support necessary to the work of administrators, teachers, counselors and other invested staff. To effectively care for and teach your students, we must learn to care for ourselves. As research reinforces the idea that to “teach the mind, we must reach the heart,” we open ourselves up to hearing story after story of heartbreak, rejection, pain, trauma and injustice. To be most effective, our students need for us to be secure and stable ourselves. This is not an easy task, as even the most...

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Individual Self-Care Assessments

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Individual Self-Care Assessments

Any new undertaking requires obtaining a baseline. Where are you in the process of making self-care a priority? How urgent is it that you practice good self-care in your specific situation or chosen career? The Children’s Wellness Coalition recommends using the “Self-Care Assessment Worksheet” first published in 1996 workbook on vicarious traumatization,”Transforming the Pain,” by Karen W. Saakvitnethor and Laurie Anne Pearlman. The Self-Care Assessment Worksheet does a great job of both summarizing key self-care...

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Immediate Self-Care

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Immediate Self-Care

As an administrator or educator it can feel overwhelming when you know a colleague is experiencing acute stress. Since you can’t handle this on your own, it’s good to have some go-to resources prepared. While using our recommended preventative self-care resources will best equip you and your colleagues with essential next steps when severe stress, trauma, or crisis is encountered, there are several immediate self-care steps we can take to restore balance to our lives. Immediate Self-Care Strategies for Dealing with Stress, Trauma and...

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Preventative Self-Care

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Preventative Self-Care

The Snohomish County Children’s Wellness Coalition believes in the adage, “An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.” To that end, we have identified an incredible free resource: the very accessible and comprehensive workbook, “What about You?” No one thing works for everyone. There is no self-care cookie cutter. So we have sprinkled a little bit of everything throughout this guide. We hope that it will make you think, make you laugh, and occasionally make you remember to breathe.What About You? Developed by the...

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Self-Care

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Self-Care

Self-care is a vital but often overlooked component of support necessary to the work of administrators, teachers, counselors and other invested staff. To effectively care for and teach your students, we must learn to care for ourselves. As research reinforces the idea that to “teach the mind, we must reach the heart,” we open ourselves up to hearing story after story of heartbreak, rejection, pain, trauma and injustice. To be most effective, our students need for us to be secure and stable ourselves. This is not an easy task, as even the most...

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