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Finding time for
self-care
Fear of being too
radical or not radical
enough
Being able to
manage time
effectively
Pressure to have a
Western education
Maintaining
relationships
Prioritizing other
people's emotions
before our own
Feeling of always being
'on-duty'
Balancing Traditional
and Western lifestyles
Pressure to
drink alcohol
in some spaces and
pressure not to drink
in others
Having to answer
questions you don't
have the answer to
Pressure to think and
respond perfectly on
the spot
Defending history
I
n order to support one another with these pressures
we exchanged ideas around how to take care of
ourselves. From our examples it became clear that
our ability to navigate these pressures relies on self-care
efforts that balance physical, mental, emotional and
spiritual aspects of our wellness. While not all of our
cultures follow the Medicine Wheel we do all connect to
holistic approaches of being and so we have arranged
our wellness strategies here according to physical,
mental, emotional and spiritual approaches.
