By Pamela Stokes Eggleston — 2017
Yoga for caregivers is a potent self-care, embodied practice that caregivers can use to adjust to the physical and invisible wounds of war.
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Eso es para locos. Esta generación... siempre inventando. These are the words I’d hear anytime I mentioned therapy or mental health growing up.
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Candace Bond-Theriault says her work supporting the rights of others like her has taught her how and why taking care of herself is important, too.
Caring for ourselves is paramount.
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