The New Social Worker

JANUARY 15, 2024

As you embrace a self-care practice that you feel good about, resiliency increases. How will you use the lifeline of self-care to power up your resiliency? Resiliency is not a fixed construct or static experience.

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The New Social Worker

AUGUST 22, 2023

Practicing self-care is akin to learning how to cook a life-menu that nurtures, fuels, pleasures, and satisfies. What is on your menu?

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The New Social Worker

JUNE 12, 2023

I’ve been reflecting on how this important holiday highlights the crucial need for attention to self-care and self-love in the Black community. Juneteenth is June 19th.

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The New Social Worker

JULY 3, 2023

A big barrier to self-care success is how much we should on our self-care. Are you more like "Should" Shonda or Self-Care Shonda?

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The New Social Worker

JANUARY 2, 2023

A winter pause inspired some P’s and Q’s that can deepen and strengthen our self-care. Her next post will discuss Q’s of self-care, i.e., asking critical, clarifying key Questions. Here, Erlene considers 5 P’s.

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Psychological Health Care

JANUARY 8, 2024

Self-care or self-love plays an important role in supporting your mental health. You may think the notion of self-love sounds selfish or self- indulgent. Some may even feel guilty about devoting time to self-care. But self-care is vital to your mental and physical health.

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The New Social Worker

JUNE 20, 2022

Should”ing is a common way we sabotage practicing self-care. I should __? Because these shoulds are so insidiously hidden and harmful, they must be intentionally countered.

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The New Social Worker

AUGUST 29, 2022

Download your Self-Care Awareness Month calendar for 2022 and join The New Social Worker as we invite you to deepen awareness and activation of self-care.

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The New Social Worker

APRIL 1, 2024

Be your quirky self. Write freely. 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.

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Social Work Blog

MARCH 13, 2024

By Sue Coyle Self-care is an often-discussed topic among social workers, the organizations that employ them, and the profession as a whole—and for good reason. While self-care will not eliminate all of the factors leading to high turnover and burnout rates, it is one of the pieces most needed to help social workers.

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The New Social Worker

MARCH 6, 2023

Self-care is necessary to foster a world in which barriers are not merely broken nor are practitioners battered and burnt out by battling these barriers. With self-care as an essential systemic thread, connectedness and our mission are strengthened.

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The New Social Worker

APRIL 17, 2023

You might be surprised to see the topic of planetary well-being on a blog focused on self-care. Yet, Earth Day is an ideal occasion to talk about the inextricable and important connection between self-care and planetary care.

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The New Social Worker

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Whether it’s religious and/or cultural traditions, the legacy of a loved one, or progress in our work, celebration is an important aspect of wholistic self-care. With some caveats—know your boundaries and follow them.)

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The New Social Worker

MAY 15, 2023

Self-care does not just happen. As such, devising successful self-care plans requires intentionally considering what accountability measures/strategies to use. We need to be intentional about accountability that holds us to our commitments.

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The New Social Worker

OCTOBER 5, 2021

We’re inherently worthy of self-care. Thank you for your service, values, commitment to the social work profession, and for taking care of YOU. Corinna shares her self-care story.

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The New Social Worker

MARCH 17, 2024

Expansive self-care is necessary to achieve this agenda. This year’s World Social Work Day theme is Buen Vivir: Shared Future for Transformative Change.

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The New Social Worker

JANUARY 31, 2022

Human interchanges impact self-care. Self-care involves minimizing the vampires and maximizing the infusers. We all know how “Energy Vampires” can affect us. And, I intentionally (and gratefully!) nurture what I call “Energy Infusers.”

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Social Care

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Self Care Week , the annual national awareness campaign, encouraging support for self care across communities, families and generations, is back and lead, once again, by the Self Care Forum. Maximising self improvement. Visit the Self Care Forum to find out more. Newly diagnosed?

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The New Social Worker

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Self-care—isn't it grand? Erlene's four rules for her grandkids also apply to self-care. Read on to find out how.

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KVC

MARCH 9, 2023

While social workers are often focused on taking care of other people’s needs, it’s critical that self-care is also a priority for social workers! Social workers’ physical, mental and emotional load can feel a little lighter by practicing self-care. Maintain Boundaries Setting (and repeatedly enforcing!)

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The New Social Worker

AUGUST 1, 2022

Reading life-stories deepens compassion, widens worldview, and encourages spirit—all aspects of expansive self-care. Here are four “big picture” aspects from Viola Davis’s compelling life-story that we can emulate in our own self-care journeys.

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The New Social Worker

JULY 18, 2022

International Self-Care Day on July 24 offers a timely opportunity to (re)set our self-care commitments. And, our Self-Care BINGO adds a bit of play to the day. Join in the Self-Care Day BINGO CHALLENGE and invite colleagues, too.

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The New Social Worker

JANUARY 4, 2022

What’s your best self-care advice? Have you thought about it lately? Do you follow it regularly?

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Social Work Blog

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

A man practices self-care by taking time to relax in nature and listen to music. Self-care is important to social workers and in fact the National Association of Social Workers (NASW) Code of Ethics included the importance of self-care when it was updated this year. Book cover.

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The New Social Worker

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Great social workers need serious attention to self-care. The time is right for social work. The need for social workers is great. Let’s get it right. It’s time.

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The New Social Worker

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Despite not being written by social workers or from their perspectives, Career Self-Care is an invaluable resource for us because of its practical and interdisciplinary nature. Read The New Social Worker’s review of Career Self Care.

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The New Social Worker

JANUARY 16, 2023

What’s your guiding self-care question? Typically, we assume answers are the most aspect of life. But questions matter more. Mind your P’s…and Q’s! Here’s a sampling of 11 questions to spark ideas for your personalized one.

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The New Social Worker

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

I was convinced I was practicing “effective” self-care! However, I merely used self-care as a luxury, a pamper session, the latest item acquisition. True self-care is more than an addendum, an afterthought, and a PRN activity.

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The New Social Worker

OCTOBER 4, 2022

For some in the Latinx community who have been taught to work hard, slowing down and taking care of oneself is seen as devaluing one’s self-worth. It’s imperative that self-care not be limited to a mainstream privileged lens.

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The New Social Worker

JULY 4, 2022

Use these tools to build a purposeful professional self-care practice that includes a personalized and comprehensive self-care lifestyle.

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The New Social Worker

OCTOBER 18, 2021

When I started in social work, I thought self-care only meant vacations, pedicures, and socializing. I was forced into deep self-care of the mind, body, and spirit. Then I got sick. Don't wait like I did.

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The New Social Worker

JULY 31, 2023

Wishing is often a significant aspect of a self-care journey. I wish sounds like a positive thing, right? Yet, actually, I’ve noticed I wish often becomes a “but” barrier. It morphs into an obstacle of impossibility.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 29, 0002

The government has delayed giving all self-funders the right to take advantage of, typically lower, council care home rates, following concerns authorities would lack the workforce to implement the change.

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The New Social Worker

JANUARY 17, 2022

The best self-care advice is that which you give yourself. Advice from others sparks new ideas, reminds us of something we did previously and need to resurface, and reinforces or refines our own self-care practice. So, let’s hear from some experts.

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The New Social Worker

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Sometimes self-care requires leaving an abusive house to find yourself a nurturing home.

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The New Social Worker

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

We all experience poopy times. With a good enough focus and some gratitude, this, too, shall pass.

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The New Social Worker

MAY 2, 2022

Erlene asked, “What have you learned about self-care during COVID that you want to continue?” Responses are both deeply reflective and profoundly pragmatic. Here's what people said.

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