Category Archives: Strategies for Self

Finding Moral Courage in Difficult Times

Six Steps to Cultivate Moral Courage

Moral courage is about finding what lies between doing nothing and taking high-cost actions to support you through the difficult stretches of your career.

January 2026

Un-Addiction

6 Mind-Changing Conversations That Could Save a Life

In this book, Dr. Nzinga Harrison explores the science, stigma, and truth around substance use. An insightful read from both a personal and professional perspective.

January 2024

The Three Minute Breathing Space

Grounding Through Sounds, Sensations, & Breath

The Three Minute Breathing Space is a simple mindfulness exercise to reset before, during, or after a stressful event by grounding through sound, body sensations, and breathing.

November 2023

The Window of Tolerance

The Window of Tolerance created by Dr. Dan Siegel is a useful tool for noticing, monitoring, and communicating the normal “ups and downs” of our emotions.

April 2023

The Professional Quality of Life Measure (ProQOL)

Self-Test for Compassion Satisfaction, Burnout, & Compassion Fatigue

The Professional Quality of Life Measure (ProQOL) is a free 30 question self-assessment test designed by Dr. Beth Stamm to evaluate burnout, compassion fatigue, and compassion satisfaction.

April 2023

Real Self-Care

A Transformative Program for Redefining Wellness (Crystals, Cleanses, and BubbleBaths Not Included)

In this book, Dr. Pooja Lakshmin helps you to understand what a real practice of caring for yourself could—and does—look like.

March 2023

Low Impact Debriefing

Four Steps to Safely Share and Process Difficult Experiences

This strategy allows us to share and process difficult stories and images while preventing sliming and unnecessary secondary trauma exposure.

January 2023

The Stress Prescription

Seven Days to More Joy and Ease

In this book. Dr. Elissa Epel offers a seven-day plan of science-based techniques that can help you harness stress through more positive challenge and purpose. 

December 2022

The Set Boundaries Workbook

Practical Exercises for Understanding Your Needs and Setting Healthy Limits

In this workbook, Nedra Glover Tawwab offers exercises to gain insight into healthy boundaries and offers steps to implement them.

December 2021

Fierce Self-Compassion

How Women Can Harness Kindness to Speak Up, Claim Their Power, and Thrive

Dr. Kristin Neff demonstrates using fierce and tender self-compassion to succeed in the workplace, engage in caregiving without burning out, and being authentic in relationships.

June 2021

Boundaries

A Deep Dive

How do you know when a boundary has been breached? In this discussion, Françoise Mathieu, Diana Tikasz. and Dr. Jennifer Russel explore boundary breaches and navigating boundaries between our work and personal lives.

June 2021

We Are All Perfectly Fine

A Memoir of Love, Medicine and Healing

In this book, Dr. Jillian Horton explores how the culture of healthcare contributes to burnout and offers a more compassionate perspective.

February 2021

Maintaining Balance

Self-Care, Resiliency, and Ethical Service Delivery

Françoise Mathieu shares her thoughts about self-care as an "ethical duty" for those working in high-trauma workplaces in this series presented by by the Southern Regional Children’s Advocacy Center.

July 2020

Widen the Window

Training Your Brain and Body to Thrive During Stress and Recover from Trauma

In this book, Dr. Elizabeth Stanley offers tools and strategies to rewire the mind and body, allowing our “thinking brain” and our “survival brain” to work together cooperatively.

September 2019

Balancing Your Life

Interview with Lawrence S. Krieger, Law Professor

Lawrence S. Krieger's research focuses on understanding why lawyers and law students are not happy. In this interview, he shares his top strategies for building a satisfying life and career.

May 2019

Three Simple Guidelines for Healthy Living

Making Small Changes for Healthier Habits

There are many research papers, reports and books on healthy living - it’s a multi-million dollar industry for a reason. Here are three simple strategies to make small changes each day.

September 2018

Disappoint Someone Today

An Invitation to Make Space

There is a cost to being super-human caregivers. As it turns out, the need will always outweigh what we can provide. This is true professionally, as well as personally.

July 2018

The Age of Overwhelm

Strategies for the Long Haul

In this book, Laura van Dernoot Lipsky aims to ease the burden of overwhelm, restore perspective, and give strength to navigate what is yet to come.

July 2018

The Edge of Compassion

TEDx Talk with Françoise Mathieu

In this TEDx talk, Françoise Mathieu explores the sweet spot between caring too much and not caring at all.

April 2018

Hardwiring Happiness

The New Brain Science of Contentment, Calm, and Confidence

In this book, Dr. Rick Hanson lays out a simple method that uses everyday experiences to build new neural structures full of happiness, love, confidence, and peace.

December 2017

The Posttraumatic Growth Workbook

Coming Through Trauma Wiser, Stronger, and More Resilient

In this workbook, Dr. Richard Tedeschi and Dr. Bret Moore offer strategies to understand, process, and cope with traumatic experiences.

December 2016

Resilience, Balance & Meaning

Supporting Our Lives and Our Work in High Stress, Trauma-Exposed Workplaces

In this workbook, Dr. Patricia Fisher provides practical tools to address the effects of workplace stress, burnout, and trauma and offers a framework to creating a personal wellness plan.

September 2016

Self-Compassion

The Proven Power of Being Kind to Yourself

In this book. Dr. Kristin Neff demonstrates the importance of self-compassion and offers strategies to heal destructive emotional patterns.

June 2015