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Category Archives: Strategies for Self
Identifying Your Warning Signs
Reflecting on Your Physical, Behavioural, & Emotional Signs of Overwhelm
This downloadable PDF helps you identify your top three warning signs of empathic strain and secondary traumatic stress.
August 2023
What Do You Have to Quit in Order to Stay?
Strategies to Sustain Our Careers
In this CARE4YOU 2023 session, Dr. Brian Miller discusses the importance of noticing our narratives and cultivating realistic ways of improving our relationship to our job stress.
June 2023
CALM
Building Mutual Support through Intentional Listening
In this CARE4YOU 2023 session, Diana Tikasz explores the acronym CALM (Center, Attend, Listen, Mindfully) – four steps to fostering meaningful and intentional connection at work.
June 2023
It’s Not Just Bovines Who Chew the Cud
Understanding Rumination
Rumination can be destructive to our work and life when we feel helpless to escape this cycle of repetitive thoughts. In this discussion, Françoise Mathieu, Diana TIkasz, and Dr. Jennifer Russel explore the concept of rumination and share strategies to interrupt the cycle.
August 2022
Positive Neuroplasticity
Settling Tools for the Unsettled
During times of stress, it is normal and common to feel unsettled. In this discussion, Françoise Mathieu, Diana Tikasz. and Dr. Jennifer Russel explore the the negativity bias and strategies to incorporate positive neuroplasticity during times of adjustment.
May 2022
Making Micro-Decisions
Choosing the Path Our Thoughts Take
In a single day, we may have anywhere between 60,000 to 70,000 thoughts. in this discussion, Françoise Mathieu, Diana TIkasz. and Dr. Jennifer Russel explore micro-strategies to guide your thoughts towards healthier, kinder, and more mindful decisions.
March 2022
We’re Not Rocking the Pandemic Either
Plus, Polyvagal Theory 101
Polyvagal Theory was first introduced by behavioral neuroscientist Dr. Stephen Porges. In this discussion, Françoise Mathieu, Diana Tikasz. and Dr. Jennifer Russel share micro-strategies to engage the vagus nerve and regulate the stress response
January 2022