Self-Care

Learn the importance of self-care and areas within your life to focus on to improve self-care!

John Green states, "Self-care is not a reward, it's a vital piece of being a human." Learn how to take action and engage in fun, important, and necessary self-care. 

Regularly assessing your self-care is essential because it helps you identify areas where you might be neglecting your needs, ensuring that you can maintain balance and resilience in caregiving and personal life. Prioritizing your well-being allows you to care for others more effectively and with greater emotional health. This assessment explores self-care across six key areas: physical, psychological, emotional, spiritual, workplace, and overall balance. It then provides guiding questions to help you develop a personalized self-care plan.

This tool is designed to help you reflect on your experience as a foster or resource parent, recognize your strengths, and identify areas where you may need additional support. It also helps you understand how a child's traumatic experiences can impact both them and you as a caregiver. By using this tool, you'll be better equipped to respond to challenging behaviors in a supportive and understanding way.