I'm not a dancer by any means. In fact, for someone with a musical background, I'm surprisingly uncoordinated when it comes to stepping and twirling to the beat of the music. This may be why it took me so long to discover that dancing is one of my most reliable self-care practices. When I stripped away the expectations of being “good” at dancing and just paid attention to how it made me feel, I started observing how joyful I was after listening to music I love and moving my body. The moment...

When I started my Master's of Social Work a couple of years ago, I viewed trainings as simply something I needed to prepare myself for my work in the field — a box I needed to check, offering new skills I needed to acquire. What I didn’t anticipate was the way these trainings would become part of my self-care regimen. The burden of the suffering around me has felt overwhelming at times — and when I don't feel adequately prepared to respond to the mental health challenges I'm faced with,...

We all have “spidey senses” – it’s our intuition or gut instinct that’s alerted when we have a bad feeling about something or sense...