____ Let others know different aspects of you
____ Notice your inner experience - listen to your thoughts, judgments, beliefs, attitudes, and
Feelings
____ Engage your intelligence in a new area (e.g. go to an art museum, history exhibit, sports
event, auction, theater performance
____ Practice receiving from others
____ Be curious
____ Say “no” to extra responsibilities sometimes
____ Other:
Emotional Self-Care
____ Spend time with others whose company you enjoy
____ Stay in contact with important people in your life
____ Give yourself affirmations, praise yourself
____ Love yourself
____ Re-read favorite books, re-view favorite movies
____ Identify comforting activities, objects, people, relationships, places and seek them out
____ Allow yourself to cry
____ Find things that make you laugh
____ Express your outrage in social action, letters and donations, marches, protests
____ Play with children
____ Other:
Spiritual Self-Care
____ Make time for reflection
____ Spend time with nature
____ Find a spiritual connection or community
____ Be open to inspiration
____ Cherish your optimism and hope
____ Be aware of nonmaterial aspects of life
Source: Transforming the Pain: A Workbook on Vicarious Traumatization. Saakvitne, Pearlman & Staff of TSI/CAAP
(Norton, 1996)