Self Care Strategies

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Current Strategies for Self-Care:
Meditation and deep breathing exercises
Leading/personally practicing yoga
Working out
Reading
Walking
Running/jogging
Listening to music
A Week-at-a-Glance:
Monday - My client ran outside to recess and cut in front of many other students; reversing this type of inappropriate running is one of our goals together. After speaking to him about this behavior, one of the lunch aides told him that he can, essentially, run outside to recess whenever he feels like it and that other students should “get out of his way”. This was rather frustrating for, although it did not affect me for the entirety of work, and I was able to go to the gym afterwards which was helpful in minimizing my stress. My fiance had a particularly
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As a result, he missed the entire lesson and became extremely upset at the end of class when they were being tested on the material covered that day. I was particularly frustrated by this situation because, after reflecting with my client about why he did not learn and getting him to acknowledge his responsibility in the matter, an aid passing by who saw that he was upset told him that it was his teacher’s fault and not his. I took a jog after dinner and listened to music on the way to class that night which helped to reduce my level of …show more content…
I believe this idea applies to a wide variety of aspects in our personal and professional lives. To use an example I feel represents a metaphor for life in general: when we fly on airplanes, during the initial safety message before take-off we are instructed to put our oxygen masks on prior to putting on anyone else's in case of an emergency. We must take care of ourselves before we share ourselves with the world as we can only share what we have. If we are not put together well, we will share our chaos with the world; if we are put together well, we will share our