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Top 5 Self Care tips for Social Work Students.

Social Work student Nadeen shares her thoughts on the importance of self-care.

It’s All About the Self-care Buzz!

Counsellor and Social Worker Lynn explores the barriers and motivations around self-care, and asks how we might overcome them.

Self-care for a busy lawyer

It’s taken a while to pen this blog, which would suggest my self-care isn’t as finely tuned as I would hope. Eyes rolled and sigh sounded...

Self-care when you’re caring for two.

The day I found out I was pregnant I was overcome with joy. And only 8 days later I was overcome with a consistent sickness which dominat...

You Have To Put Your Own Oxygen Mask On Before Helping Others.

For most of my life I was always giving out to the world, but not allowing the world to give back to me. I care so much about people that...

My Month of Self-care.

I like to describe the periodic depression that I experience as low mood. I first began using the term as part of my peer support co-ordi...

The Big M Self-Care Journey.

So, no one told me about THIS! At 52 years young, I have started a new chapter in my Self Care Journey! Well it probably started several...

Self-Care and make-up, bossing mum-life.

Only a woman can become a mother. Now I know this isn’t breaking news to society – but it was to me, and it only became apparent the day ...

The January effect on Self-Care.

Like many others at the start of January each year I have succumbed to a January offer for leisure centre membership. I don’t see it as j...

Be a Teacher - Stay a Teacher with Self Care.

As a Headteacher of a first school the thought of self care was not really on my agenda other than a glass of wine when I got home on a F...

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