Andrea Stallworth Imafidon

Tuskegee University, United States

Title: Practicing Self-Acceptance, Self-Care, and Resilience in Healthcare

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Biography

Abstract

As healthcare providers, we focus on being healers and caregivers to others that we often forget to take care of ourselves, understand our limitations, fail to create a balanced life, and fall prey to burnout. Throughout this workshop, we are going to focus on three main areas of our lives:

• Self-acceptance: Understanding and knowing when we have done enough for our patients/clients. We accept our limitations, check our savior complex, and fully embrace our skills, strengths, and weaknesses.
• Self-Care: We will assess our self-care practices and create a basic and straightforward self-care practice to take care of ourselves on and off the time clock. We will also create a work-life balance plan, understanding it is okay to say No and forgive.

• Resilience: We all have the bounce back magic, aka resilience, to get through the difficulties of life, loss, and hardships. We will examine what resiliency is, why it is important to tap into it when you done everything you’ve done professionally and personally, and how to recover from life difficulties.