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Welcome to our College of Education Self-care Initiative, informally called Self-care for U at Northridge, the SUN Program.

It is so wonderful that you are considering self-care as an important way to care for yourself and keep balance and health in your life. Self-care means taking responsibility for yourself to maintain a healthy and balanced lifestyle at work and in your personal world through individually determined, proactive activities. You are at your best when you attend to yourself in equal measure to others in day-to-day living! 

Self-Care News

Self-care: Finding Joy

December 13, 2021

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‘Tis the season for joy, and especially as an anecdote for adversity, what better way to experience self-care than through finding joy right now? In a 2020 YouTube Obama Foundation video, former First Lady Michelle Obama discussed why experiencing joy is so valuable. “What happens in your darkest hour? It’s true, those times will come, and there isn’t a magic answer to that,” Obama said. “But if you have been thoughtful in your life and you understand how to bring yourself joy, that’s what gets you through it. It doesn’t mean that the dark day didn’t happen. It means that because you’ve planned joy, joy is coming. But a lot of times we plan work, that’s what we’re taught to do, but we’re not taught to plan our lives and plan our joy.”  Read more

CSUN Campus Care Recovery Plan

December 7, 2021

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It’s so important that we engage in wellbeing activities for ourselves and our community during this time of the pandemic. Research across the country indicates that many of us have been impacted by loss, isolation, and other challenges. The CSUN Campus Care Recovery Plan provides programming and activities that will create space to process the pandemic’s socio-emotional impact and offer support for faculty, staff, students and the surrounding CSUN community. At one of the first events, members of the CSUN campus and surrounding community attended a presentation by Laura van Dernoot Lipsky of the Trauma Stewardship Institute on the traumatic impact of COVID and what we can do to recover. To find out more, please visit her website at https://traumastewardship.com/laura-van-dernoot-lipsky/ Read more

Self-care: Finding Self-Appreciation

December 6, 2021

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According to several recent articles in Psychology Today, self-appreciation is an important skill for all of us to have in order to truly appreciate who we are. With self- appreciation, we can reflect on the hard things we’ve done as well as our strengths, especially in the face of adversity. One can find resiliency, self-confidence, and peace when feeling a sense of self-appreciation. Read more

Self-care and gratitude at Thanks giving

November 25, 2021

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This week we celebrate Thanksgiving and a time to be grateful. This is not always easy for many of us given the past 20 months of COVID challenges, anxiety, loss, and grief. Yet the regular practice of gratitude is important and can have many self-care benefits, according to a Psychology Today article by Najma Khorrami, a global and public health professional.  Read more

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