Learning Lounge 2: Self Care: Taking Time for YOU!

Cost: $30 per person, or $100 for all 4 programs

What Is Self Care?

Self care is about taking proper care of yourself and treating yourself as kindly as you treat others. Finding the time for self care can be daunting with the demands of paid work, housework, homework, family, community, and even, for many of us, pets, of course. Learning Lounge is a four part series designed to teach us ways to slow down, stretch, breathe, feed your soul, and meet some new friends.

Our first session, Stressed OUT!,  features Plaza Therapy’s Jason Strang and Nicole Norton, physical therapists who will show us how to stretch and de-tress during the day while sitting at our desks and small exercises you can do to help get you through the day.

The second in the series is taught by our sponsor, Dr. Traci Nelson-Johnson from Nelson Chiropractic. She is hosting Your Body vs.Technology. Dr. Nelson will address ways to achieve a work/life balance and ways to beat workplace fatigue.  

What happens when massages and bath balms and mani/pedis come up short, leaving you with a sense of never being fulfilled, of never having enough, of never being enough. Our third Learning Lounge, More Than Massages: Moving Past Skin Deep Self-Care, is presented by Sarah Stevens, founder of The Beautiful Project as she unpacks an approach to self-care that moves us beyond basic comforts and toward a radical invitation to loving ourselves without limits.

The fourth and final in this series, No Worries, will be hosted by Pamela Crouch, executive director of Living Proof Exhibits. Using art as a way to de-stress we can focus on creativity and shed the day’s worries. Guests will create Notes of Hope - stamping and coloring cards and writing messages to cancer patients.