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Self-Care for Foster Parents

By Creating a Family Staff

Parenting foster children who have come to your home from trauma, neglect or abuse is likely the hardest work you will ever do. It requires you to have a wide variety of tools in your parenting toolbox. Self-care for foster parents is one of the most important tools you can have in that toolbox.

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Notes to Self: A Journal for Self-Care

Self-care has become a buzzword--and a necessary part of life in our stressful and uncertain times. As this creative, insightful journal demonstrates on every page, self-care is whatever you want it to be. Taking a walk in nature. Meeting a friend for tea.

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Resilience: Facing Down Rejection and Criticism on the Road to Success

In Resilience, Mark McGuinness explains why your reactions to rejection and criticism are completely understandable—and how to deal with them effectively.

Mark McGuinness

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Give Yourself Margin: A Guide to Rediscovering and Reconnecting with Your Creative Self

A gorgeously illustrated interactive guide to changing your mindset, rekindling creativity, and embracing imperfection. “Give yourself margin” is a sewing maxim about leaving enough excess fabric to account for potential mistakes.

Stacie Bloomfield

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Make Time for Creativity: Finding Space for Your Most Meaningful Work (A Self-Guide)

Venture into a space that intimately discusses how to find time to express yourself and develop your talents.

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Radical Self Care: Terence Nance

Let’s hear how revolutionary artist and activist Terence Nance takes care of himself in these chaotic times.

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"The Work" of Awakening for Writers & Creatives- Interview with Byron Katie on "Waking Up in Daily..

Byron and Albert discuss beliefs that affect creativity.

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Creativity, Spirituality, and Making a Buck

A friendly, funny, practical guide for creatives and entrepreneurs, written by a four-time Emmy award-winning and two-time Grammy-nominated composer-guitarist-producer who has worked with Paul Simon, Stevie Wonder, Jerry Garcia, Lana Del Rey, and Krishna Das, among many others.

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Finding Flow: The Psychology of Engagement with Everyday Life

Based on a far-reaching study of thousands of individuals, finding flow contends that we often walk through our days unaware and out of touch with our emotional lives.

Mihály Csíkszentmihályi

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Foster Parenting