{"id":162,"date":"2018-10-07T18:34:31","date_gmt":"2018-10-07T18:34:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/dhollim\/?p=162"},"modified":"2018-10-07T18:34:31","modified_gmt":"2018-10-07T18:34:31","slug":"self-care-and-social-justice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/dhollim\/2018\/10\/07\/self-care-and-social-justice\/","title":{"rendered":"Self-care and social justice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Self-care and social justice<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In my profession, Social Work, we hear a lot about self-care. When we get overwhelmed, get angry or cry about the slights, injustices and micro-aggressions and sometimes macro-aggressions at work we are reminded about self-care. It is like if we are not engaging in self-care we are not doing something right.<\/p>\n<p>When I first heard of taking care of myself in this way in the 1990s, I thought of self-care as eating cookies and taking bubble baths which can still be a part of my self-care. \u00a0But, let me write about what self-care is not . . .for me.<\/p>\n<p>My self-care is my self-care. . . not other people\u2019s ideas for my self-care. My self-care is not going out to eat and drink in a crowded, noisy restaurant and either gossiping about work or trying to make conversation about things I am not interested in (I wonder if this will be easier now that I have a hearing aid)?<\/p>\n<p>My self-care is not letting people down because I am doing these so-called self-care activities.<\/p>\n<p>What is my self-care?<\/p>\n<p>My self-care is eating, exercising, sleeping, resting, thinking and interacting in a way that serves my body, mind and spirit. My self-care is doing my jobs well, practicing and preparing before I go into something that I am either doing for work or that I\u2019ve volunteered to do. My self-care is listening to myself and others, and being honest, but polite, respectful, patient and forgiving with myself and others when I just can not do something. . . and being polite, respectful, patient and forgiving when others can not fulfill their obligations.<\/p>\n<p>My self-care is looking for justice, and thinking of care and self-care in the long term-not just the short term. Balancing the rights, needs and wants of myself, others and all my environment. To me self-care can feel hard and burdensome in the short-term.<\/p>\n<p>My body, mind and spirit need a lot of care. My body, mind and spirit are like babies, and so are yours.<\/p>\n<p>Property of DHF Counseling &amp; Consulting LLC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Self-care and social justice In my profession, Social Work, we hear a lot about self-care. When we get overwhelmed, get angry or cry about the slights, injustices and micro-aggressions and sometimes macro-aggressions at work we are reminded about self-care. It is like if we are not engaging in self-care we are not doing something right. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":345,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/dhollim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/dhollim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/dhollim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/dhollim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/345"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/dhollim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/dhollim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":163,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/dhollim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162\/revisions\/163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/dhollim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/dhollim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/dhollim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}