Time to beware

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peggy D. Bennett
Keyword(s):  
Self Care ◽  
Physical Injury ◽  
One Step ◽  
Self Knowledge ◽  
Taking Care

When we are vulnerable, it’s time to be extra cautious. Physically or emotionally, there are times when we know we are not at our best. We may be in pain, fatigued, fearful, or just out of sorts. It is a “beware time.” Imagine yourself at your best, descending a set of stairs. You hop from step to step. You move quickly and confidently. You don’t even look at the steps. You don’t hold on to the banister. You are extremely confident and efficient. Now imagine yourself injured or in pain as you descend a set of stairs. You are cautious. You cling unsteadily to the banister for support. You move slowly, placing both feet on one step before you move to the next. You are tense as you hold tightly to the person you have asked to assist you. You don’t take your eyes off the danger, looking at nothing but the steps you need to tra­verse. You use all your diminished strength to keep from falling. Your heart is racing. We all have occasions to experience confident freedom and cautious fear. Like navigating the stairs when we are impaired, we need to know when we are especially vulnerable. Vulnerability can cloud our awareness and distract our atten­tion. We can be prone to losing our patience, our temper, our composure. We follow a protocol for protecting a physical injury; protecting our spirit can be just as important. Our vulnerabilities wax and wane. Being aware helps us move into caution mode for a time, taking care to protect ourselves until it passes. Acknowledging your own “beware time” can be like wrapping yourself in a layer of protective padding or using a periscope to check out any risks hiding in the periphery. Your “beware time” may pass quickly or may amount to nothing. But naming it and being extra gentle with yourself can be a nice oasis of self- care and self- knowledge.

Three Challenges of Early-Career Faculty and the Importance of Self-Care

2021 ◽  
pp. 227-250
Author(s):  
Aaron Samuel Zimmerman
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Organizational Change ◽  
Faculty Member ◽  
Self Care ◽  
Learning To Teach ◽  
Early Career ◽  
Early Career Faculty ◽  
Taking Care

This chapter presents three challenges associated with being an early-career faculty member: learning to teach in the context of higher education, learning to advise in the context of higher education, and learning to cope with organizational change. After describing the nature of these challenges in detail, the framework of self-care is introduced. Seven strategies are presented: insisting that your students take responsibility for their actions, learning to say no, learning to identify burnout in your colleagues, establishing a network of family and friends, scheduling breaks throughout the day and doing things you enjoy, taking care of yourself physically, and not trying to be perfect. The aim of this chapter is for readers to understand more comprehensively (some of) the challenges associated with becoming an early-career faculty member and to acquire some strategies that can help one to cope with these challenges before, during, and after experiencing these challenges.

scholarly journals Spirituality in self-care for intensive care nursing professionals

2008 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 212-217 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luciana Winterkorn Dezorzi ◽  
Maria da Graça Oliveira Crossetti
Keyword(s):  
Intensive Care ◽  
Close Contact ◽  
Self Care ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
University Hospital ◽  
Higher Power ◽  
Self Knowledge ◽  
Nursing Professionals ◽  
Intensive Care Nursing ◽  
Care Nursing

This study aimed to understand how spirituality permeates the process of caring for oneself and for others in the intensive care scenario from nursing professionals' point of view. This study used the qualitative approach of Cabral's Creative-Sensitive Method to guide information production and analysis in nine art and experience workshops. Nine nursing caregivers from the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of a university hospital participated in the study. This article presents one of the topics that emerged during this process: spirituality in self-care, which is evidenced in the daily practices that take place through prayers, close contact with nature, as well as in the sense of connection with a Higher Power that provides peace, welfare, and greater strength to ICU caregivers' life and work. Self-knowledge emerged as an essential practice in caring for oneself, in order to deliver better care to others.

Foucault Goes to Weight Watchers

Hypatia ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 126-149 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cressida J. Heyes
Keyword(s):  
Weight Loss ◽  
Michel Foucault ◽  
Self Care ◽  
The Self ◽  
Power Weight ◽  
Care Of The Self ◽  
Self Knowledge ◽  
Weight Watchers

This article argues that commercial weight-loss organizations appropriate and debase the askeses—practices of care of the self—that Michel Foucault theorized, increasing members’ capacities at the same time as they encourage participation in ever-tightening webs of power. Weight Watchers, for example, claims to promote self-knowledge, cultivate new capacities and pleasures, foster self-care in face of gendered exploitation, and encourage wisdom and flexibility. The hupomnemata of these organizations thus use asketic language to conceal their implication in normalization.

scholarly journals Cuidado de sí y cuidado del otro. Aportes desde M. Foucault para pensar relaciones entre subjetividad y educación

2011 ◽  
Vol 17 ◽  
Author(s):  
Silvana P. Vignal
Keyword(s):  
The Self ◽  
Political Dimension ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Self Knowledge ◽  
Taking Care

RESUMENLa cuestión del «conocimiento de sí» como opuesto a la «experiencia de sí mismo» aparece problematizada en las primeras clases de La hermenéutica del sujeto. El estudio de Foucault sobre la experiencia de sí es realizado a partir del análisis de prácticas antiguas, que se traducen en «ocuparse de sí» y «cuidar de sí mismo». Nos interesa a partir de estas lecturas trabajar la dimensión ético-política del cuidado de sí, en su vínculo con el cuidado del otro. La pregunta que hacemos en una lectura desde el presente es ¿por qué educar? ¿Por qué insistir en la educación?PALABRAS CLAVESConstitución del sujeto, cuidado de sí y cuidado del otro, educación, pedagogía, psicagogia, parrhesi.AbstractThe issue of «self knowledge» in opposition to the «experience of the self» appears as a problem in the first classes of The Hermeneutics of the Subject. Foucault’s study on the experience of the self is made on the basis of the analysis of antique practices which can be translated into «taking care of oneself» and «caring about oneself». Based on these lessons, our interest is to work on the ethical-political dimension of the caring about oneself, on its link with caring about others. The questions we ask from a present analysis are: Why do we have to educate? Why do we have to insist on education?Key wordsConstitution of the subject, care about the self and the others, education, pedagogy, psicagogia, parrhesi

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