CARE WITHOUT CARRYING
A new conversation about the future of care, healing, and sustainable service.
We know more about trauma than ever before.
We understand the impact of chronic stress, disconnection, grief, and adversity on our bodies, relationships, and communities. But for those of us who spend our lives caring for others, another question remains:
How do we care deeply without losing ourselves in the process?
I’m Nicole Steward—social worker, author, educator, and longtime advocate for the people who do the work of caring. For more than 25 years, I have worked alongside students, families, educators, social workers, foster youth, caregivers, and community leaders.
I have seen the cost of caring up close: Burnout, Compassion Fatigue, Moral Injury, Disenfranchised Grief, etc. Helpers are leaving the profession(s) at alarming rates and we're still having the debates about self-care...
I believe there is another way.
Radical Self-Care is what we need.
We can care without carrying.
Join me for an ongoing conversation in a series of podcasts. We'll delve deeper into the questions about Care Work and Radical Self-Care.
Yoga is the journey of the self, through the self, to the self.
The Bhagavad Gita
A regulated nervous system (and one that can be regulated anytime, anyplace) is a healthy nervous system and that is the basis of healing from any trauma. The practice of yoga brings together the brain and the body in a series of breath (pranayama) and body movements (asana).
This coordination of the breath and the body helps regulate the nervous system, giving those who practice yoga a solid baseline of support for healthy emotional regulation.
This baseline of healthy emotional regulation is vital for those healing from trauma as well as for those of us in the human services field to heal vicarious trauma we absorb in our work.
