Book Description

SELF-CARE REVOLUTION: 5 Pillars to Prevent Burnout and Build Sustainable Resilience for Helping Professionals takes you through a step by step system to set up a sustained and sustainable Self-Care practice as a way of life and work. Are you experiencing any of these common experiences? Increased busyness Dwindling motivation and love for your work Disappearing balance of work and life Compassion fatigue or burnout Dis-ease in your life or work Elevated fear If so, you are not alone! We all need to be well to do good work, to raise our families, to learn our important life lessons, to support and love each other, and to bring to the world our unique gifts, talents, and contributions. If you are a social worker, teacher, mental health, or other health care provider, clergy, first responder, coach, leader, or anyone feeling stressed and overwhelmed, this book is for you! Ellen is a licensed master social worker, a certified coach, and a metaphysical minister who teaches, speaks, and writes about wellness, spirituality, and human behavior. She has been doing this work for more than 20 years and has been on her own self-care path since childhood! She had her burnout early when at 16 she found herself unable to get out of bed for a couple of months. This set her on her self-care path and the realization that self-care is for everyone. You do not need to live and work in a state of dis-ease. If you are like many who are seeking a way towards healthy living through self-improvement there is not a moment more to wait. This book is a self-help professional development guide. Helping professionals must value wellness enough to build a life and professional practice around Self-Care and to support one another to do the same. These are all Revolutionary acts! This Revolution is about mindfulness, compassion, intention, and love. Most helping professionals understand that they must practice Self-Care, but don't know where to begin or how to sustain their practice. This book is the why, what, and how for establishing Self-Care as a permanent and important part of your every-day life and work. SELF-CARE REVOLUTION will show you how to move mindfully into hope resilience stability wellness love for ourselves and for others Here are the 5 Pillars I will take you through in this book: Pillar 1 -- Define Self-Care Pillar 2 -- Write a Values Statement Pillar 3 -- Make a Self-Care Plan Pillar 4 -- Recognize Impairment and Focus on Prevention Pillar 5 -- Support Others in Their Self-Care Plans Self-Care, if revolutionized, means making a fundamental change in our way of relating to ourselves and to one another. It means making a fundamental change in our health care systems and in our legislation and regulations. If we are determined and committed to being well, to loving ourselves and to supporting one another, we can change the course of action. This is a Revolution! Why not use Amazon's "look inside" feature to begin reading Self Care Revolution before you buy? Just click on the book image above and start browsing.