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Course Title: Well Being at Work
Beyond the Bubble Bath: The Discipline of Actual Self-Care
Continuing Education Credits: 5.0 Hours (NYS OASAS Approved)
Cost: $10.00
Date: August 7th | Time: 10:00 AM – 3:30 PM
Format: Virtual
Instructor: Jacquelyn Cuyler, Addiction Therapist and Education Provider
“If you are regularly using consumer self-care to survive your week, you aren't practicing wellness—you are practicing escape.”
In the field of Behavioral Health, burnout is not just a risk; it is often treated as an inevitability. We are taught that the antidote to the crushing weight of our caseloads is "self-care," a term that has been diluted into a series of transactions: a massage, a glass of wine, a scented candle, or a day off to disconnect. But when we treat self-care as a reprieve from a relentless internal pressure, we are merely treating the symptom, not the system.
When we are burnt out, we make errors. We drift toward unethical shortcuts. We become the very thing we are trying to help our clients avoid: people disconnected from their own lives.
This is not a course on how to relax. This is a course on how to build a life you don’t need to regularly escape from.
True self-care is often the "ugliest" thing we have to do. It is the discipline of parenting yourself. It is the courage to look failures and disappointments square in the eye and re-strategize. It is the grit to sweat through a workout, the boundary-setting required to tell a toxic family member "no," or the humility to accept being "unexceptional" so that you can finally stop the exhausting performance of perfection.
In this 5-hour intensive, we will move past the clichés and dive into the actual practices of long-term wellness, including:
The Anatomy of Work Addiction: Recognizing when our professional dedication has crossed the line into a destructive pattern and how to decouple our identity from our productivity.
Actual vs. Consumer Self-Care: Shifting from "treating yourself" (shopping, liquor, junk food) to "parenting yourself" (budgeting, meal prep, morning routines, and honest boundaries).
Breaking the Repetition Compulsion: Analyzing how our early conditioning influences our current relationships and how to stop choosing parallels of our past pain.
The Strategy of "Letting Go": Learning how to abandon goals that no longer serve us so we can actually achieve the ones that do.
Learning Styles & Self-Actualization: Understanding how we process information and growth, and how to apply that knowledge to stop "fixing" ourselves and start caring for ourselves.
The Goal: To move from being the victim of a hectic life to being the hero of your own. We will discuss how to stop using a chaotic schedule as a justification for self-sabotage and how to embrace a level of honesty that may make you less "universally liked" but will make you significantly less anxious.
It is time to stop the cycle of mandated breaks from living. Join us to learn how to meet your own needs so you can show up fully, ethically, and sustainably for your clients.
Registration Details:
Date: August 7th
Time: 10:00 am – 3:30 pm (Virtual)
Certification: 5 NYS OASAS CE Hours