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What Self-Care Really Means

Free28 minDemonstrationStress & burnout

Video: VOA Africa, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:VOA_Our_Voices_237-_The_Practice_of_Self-Care.webm)

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VOA's Our Voices hosts talk with mental health experts and fitness trainers about what self-care is and whether it can ease long-term stress and anxiety.

Pause points

The video stops at each of these. Answer for yourself before you watch what happens next.

  1. 7:00Pause. What does the person speaking need right now: advice, or room?
  2. 14:01Notice the last question asked. Did it open the conversation or narrow it?
  3. 21:01Before you go on: what would you have said here? Say it, then watch what happens.

ReflectWrite · one question, in your own words

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PracticeOne small thing, in one real conversation this week

THIS WEEKTry one thing from this episode in one real conversation.

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