by Erlene Grise-Owens, EdD, LCSW, MSW, MRE, lead co-editor of The A-to-Z Self-Care Handbook for Social Workers and Other Helping Professionals
September is Self-Care Consciousness Month. Additionally, this month marks the six-year anniversary of this Self-Care, A-Z weblog. Since its inception, this weblog has mentioned a spread of matters that inform and promote wholistic, expansive self-care. As articulated in its initial post, the weblog is a discussion board for sharing successes, struggles, and techniques—with dozens of visitor contributors.
In celebration of this anniversary and of September as Self-Care Consciousness Month, we invite you to deepen consciousness and activation of self-care. The calendar (beneath) gives a day by day dose of self-care, with a hyperlink to a quick weblog publish to increase your understanding of self-care and methods to combine it as a life-style. Please, use this useful resource and share it with others!
The sampling of posts used on this calendar represents an intensive repository of assets to assist self-care. When you’re on the weblog website, try different posts that will resonate along with your self-care journey.
To make use of the calendar hyperlinks, obtain the PDF version of the September Self-Care Calendar for 2022, or use the hyperlinks beneath.
Self-Care September: A-Z in 1, 2, 3…2022
September 1: It’s time to RESET self-care
September 2: Aha! Self-Care is how we take care of ourselves
September 3: Debunk Self-Care Myths NOW
September 4: Cheap methods to counterpoint Self-Care
September 5: Leisure is a Human Proper
September 6: Self-Care: How we get our JOY again
September 7: Self-Care: from Self-Much less to Self-FULL
September 8: Strive a brand new Lens for “C”ing Self-Care
September 9: Self-Care: It’s how we work
September 10: Be
September 11: Grand Rules for Self-Care
September 12: Self-Care contains grief
September 13: Liberatory Self-Care
September 14: Self-Care in a Crisis (& past)
September 15: Stop Shoulding on Self-Care
September 16: Financial Self-Care provides up
September 17: Hurrah for Good Enough Self-Care
September 18: Re-claiming Self-Care within the Dark
September 19: Self-Care doesn’t always feel good
September 20: Be Mindful of Self-Care
September 21: Self-Care: It’s for Humans
September 22: Welcome Autumn!
September 23: Self-Care: Evaluate “R” essentials
September 24: However, I Love my JOB
September 25: Home-making: Unrecognized Self-Care
September 26: Self-Care: Discovering Solitude
September 27: Anchor in Awe
September 28: Self-Care: Listen to Lizzo
September 29: Self-Care Rituals
September 30: Make Self-Care a Habit
Because the weblog enters a “new yr,” please proceed studying and sharing it to advertise self-care. And, contemplate contributing a visitor publish. Collectively, let’s re-story self-care as a normative way of life. #SelfCareMovement!
Peace, Love, & Self-Care, Erlene
Erlene Grise-Owens, EdD, LCSW, MSW, MRE, is a Companion in The Wellness Group, ETC. This LLC gives analysis, coaching, and session for organizational wellness and practitioner well-being. Dr. Grise-Owens is lead editor of The A-to-Z Self-Care Handbook for Social Workers and Other Helping Professionals. As a former school member and graduate program director, she and a small (however mighty!) group of colleagues carried out an initiative to advertise self-care as a part of the social work training curriculum. Beforehand, she served in scientific and administrative roles. She has expertise with navigating toxicity and dysfunction, up-close and private! Likewise, as an educator, she noticed college students enter the sphere and shortly burn out. As a devoted social employee, she believes the well-being of practitioners is a matter of social justice and human rights. Thus, she is on a mission to advertise self-care and wellness!
