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Stress and pain: listening to your body

Emma Kemp a social worker and practice educator considers how pain may be related to current stress or past experiences.

What is Professional Trauma and Fatigue?

During my MSc research project back in 2016, Professional Trauma and Fatigue was the way I decided to practically describe the collection of

Whinge Free Wednesday.

'Humour, self-care and coping with public sector open plan office suffocation' Irreverence, humour and collective, face ache inducing lau...

When Self-Care goes Professional!

Exciting things are occurring, change is afoot, so let me tell you more #selfcaresquad! As some of you might know, by day, I’m a counsell...

SelfCare, 1980's Pop Music Style!

I’ve decided that when it comes to Self-Care, 1980’s pop bands, Fun Boy Three and Bananarama can say it far more succinctly than I can. “...

Do what you love to Self Care!

It took me a very long time to work out how vital self care is. In 2001 I gave birth to the love of my life, my daughter, but as she turn...

How I ditched prescription meds to work with my ulcerative colitis the natural way

It all began after learning of the news that my grandad had been diagnosed with cancer. Shocked and upset, as anyone would be, I couldn't...

What is Self Care?

So, the website and blog are launched, do you like it, we just LOVE it? We are busily connecting with the #selfcaresquad globally, who re...

Self Care for Practitioners Working in Challenging Roles

Beverley Gilbert University of Worcester, Director Cohort 4 'seeing the beautiful' as Self Care & resilience in challenging rol

Mum, Professional, Colitis Survivor, How Self Care Saved Me!

Roz explains how SelfCare helped her cope with Colitis, and the difficult journey she's been on to get there, as a professional, wife an

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