Thriving Therapist: Sustainable Self-Care to Prevent Burnout and Enhance Well-Being

Self-care shouldn't feel like a burden. Professional self-care can be enjoyable, personally meaningful, and sustainably integrated into mental health practitioners' lives.

Included in this book are diverse and vital resources that help practitioners:

• Go beyond one-off activities to create a self-caring lifestyle;
• Strengthen the guiding values by which they live and work, in order to prevent burnout and embody wellness;
• Cultivate mindful awareness of their needs both personal and professional, with special attention to the alignment of the person-practitioner-work environment;
• Build powerful inner resources such as gratitude, self-compassion, forgiveness, and humor to soothe in response to threats and bounce back from daily challenges;
• Implement and sustain healthy lifestyle habits that transform "simply getting by" into more easeful and meaningful living, including neurophysiological supports, meditation and subtle energy practices, mindful media consumption, and community-building.