Walking with a survivor throughout their healing process and bearing witness to the challenges that many face is rewarding and challenging, all at once. Vicarious trauma is not just a buzzword - it can lead to long lasting effects that seep in to our everyday lives. While we strive to support others as they process their own trauma, it is important to take time for ourselves. Below is a list of resources to help guide and prepare you to implement self-care as part of your daily life. 

Self-Care Starter Kit
University at Buffalo School of Social Work

This starter kit provides useful tips, assessments, exercises, and activities to help guide your self-care. Some useful tools include:

• Self-Care Assessment
• Maintenance Self-Care Worksheet
• Emergency Self-Care Worksheet
• Are you Burning Out?
• Professional Quality of Life Scale: Compassion Satisfaction and Fatigue​

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7 Self-Care tips for nonprofit professionals
Nonprofit AF

Empowering Ourselves: Incorporating Self-Care in to Our Everyday Interactions
Resource Sharing Project
Duration: 1 hour and 17 minutes
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Advocates working at rural dual/multi-service agencies are often more isolated from fellow staff members, feel overextended, and often don’t have as much support as they would like, all of which can take a toll on their emotional wellbeing. This webinar will address issues of self-care, organizational trauma, and staff empowerment with a focus on positivity and creating longevity within this work. ​​

These tips, written by Vu Le in his weekly blog called "Nonprofit with Balls", center on making time for self-care. The post and the tips themselves add humor to the topic - which can also be a form of self-care!