Caregiver Self-Care: The hardest task to do

Self-care is bandied about as though it is an easy fix and we all know the ‘best’ ways to do so but fitting it into our lives can sometimes take a back seat to the more urgent issue of caring for others whose needs are actually sometimes quite urgent. Remaining on alert and failing to fit in ‘recovery time’ leads to burnout and eventually compromised health, which in turns means that we are less able to give our best to those who need it most.

Come learn how to put on your oxygen mask first, even though it doesn’t feel like an emergency, in this interactive virtual lab for self-care for caregivers.

• Dr Scarlett Mattoli will share on the physiological and emotional systems that underline the stress and anxiety response and simple ways to measure these systems so you can enact a care response

• Clare Pemberton will lead us all…