Maintaining well-being and professional capacity: Practitioner self-care strategies

💡 Practitioner self-care strategies are important for maintaining well-being and integrity.

🧘 These strategies go beyond basic self-care and involve intentional and purposeful actions.

⏰ To ensure consistency, it is crucial to integrate these strategies into daily professional tasks.

📝 Before starting any work or meeting, it is important to check in with yourself, clarify your intention, and eliminate distractions.

💡 Create a brain dump or to-do list to help you focus on the task at hand.

🧘‍♂️ Tune into your body and emotions to shift your vibration and align with the upcoming tasks.

🧘 Practitioners need to take moments to ground themselves and get into the right emotional state before a session.

💪 It is important for practitioners to maintain belief in the potential of every individual and avoid becoming drained.

🌱 During sessions, practitioners should continually ground themselves, maintain emotional regulation, and connect with themselves separate from the client.

👀 Paying attention to our body and its warning signs is crucial for self-care as practitioners.

🙌 We can use self-regulation techniques, such as taking breaks and grounding exercises, to support ourselves during sessions.

💭 After each session, it's important to reflect on our emotions, separate our own emotions from the client's, and identify any future needs for personal growth.

📝 Practitioners should take time to process their experiences before moving on to the next client for multiple reasons.

💡 Taking brief moments before, during, and after interactions with clients to check in with oneself is important for supporting day-to-day well-being.

🔎 There are weekly lessons on grounding strategies, applying the brakes, emotional regulation, and tuning into one's body for further information.

💡 Self-awareness of when we need extra help is vital.

🚦 Being aware of signs of compassion fatigue and trauma.

🔄 Adaptability and change are crucial for self-care.

📝 Having structures and systems in place for self-care in your daily routine can empower you.

📚 There are articles and a handout available with ideas from other practitioners on self-care techniques.

⏰ Micro moments of self-care before, during, and after client interactions are important for practitioner well-being.