Self-Care Assessment Worksheet Page 2
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Let others know different aspects of you
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Notice your inner experience—listen to your thoughts, judgments, beliefs, attitudes, and
feelings
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Engage your intelligence in a new area, e.g. go to an art museum, history exhibit,
sports event, auction, theater performance
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Practice receiving from others
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Be curious
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Say “no” to extra responsibilities sometimes
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Other:
Emotional Self-Care
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Spend time with others whose company you enjoy
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Stay in contact with important people in your life
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Give yourself affirmations, praise yourself
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Love yourself
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Re-read favorite books, re-view favorite movies
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Identify comforting activities, objects, people, relationships, places and seek them out
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Allow yourself to cry
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Find things that make you laugh
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Express your outrage in social action, letters and donations, marches, protests
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Play with children
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Other:
Spiritual Self-Care
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Make time for reflection
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Spend time with nature
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Find a spiritual connection or community
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Be open to inspiration
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Cherish your optimism and hope
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Be aware of nonmaterial aspects of life
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Try at times not to be in charge or the expert
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Be open to not knowing
Source: Transforming the Pain: A Workbook on Vicarious Traumatization. Saakvitne, Pearlman & Staff of TSI/CAAP (Norton, 1996)
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