How can we ask for care while balancing our needs and fears with others' capacities and needs?

Join Ryder Fox and Ash Parker from Stronger U as they deep dive their own experiences with understanding their needs, asking for care, and building mutually caring relationships.

This conversation explores:

• Some ways that we naturally ask for care
• Our relationship with asking for care, and how that has evolved over our lives
• Some things that make asking for care particularly difficult for us, and the ways we've navigated these challenges
• Advice we'd give to people who are wanting to develop a practice of asking for care.

In this episode, we invite you to explore what's getting in the way of asking for support, and begin practicing care requests that help you truly build mutually caring relationships.

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⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Getting Unstuck Program⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠: 12-week group coaching program to stuck patterns, meet your somatic body with care, and practice moving toward alignment with support and community in this non-carceral, trauma-informed program.

⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Realign Cohort⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠: a specialized cohort experience of the ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Getting Unstuck⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ program. Find personalized coaching, support, and practices you need to find sustainable alignment between your work, your wellbeing, your values, and your purpose.

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Music: Ambisax from Unminus.com

How can we ask for care while balancing our needs and fears with others' capacities and needs?

In this episode of CareFull Practices, Ryder Fox discusses one of the most vulnerable parts of building relationships: asking for care. Many of us struggle between never asking because we fear being a burden, and asking in ways that unintentionally overwhelm others after years of our unmet needs. Through personal reflection and practical examples, Ryder examines how trauma, marginalization, and survival strategies shape the way we seek support.

In this episode, we invite you to explore what's getting in the way of asking for support, and begin practicing care requests that help you truly build mutually caring relationships.

We also have a downloadable template for formulating care requests that you can find here!

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⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Discovery call⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ to learn about 1:1 or group coaching

⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Dissociative Care Circles⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠: 8- to 12-week group coaching program for those who are plural / DID / dissociative

⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Getting Unstuck Program⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠: 12-week group coaching program to stuck patterns, meet your somatic body with care, and practice moving toward alignment with support and community in this non-carceral, trauma-informed program.

⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Realign Cohort⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠: a specialized cohort experience of the ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Getting Unstuck⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ program. Find personalized coaching, support, and practices you need to find sustainable alignment between your work, your wellbeing, your values, and your purpose.

⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Non-Carceral Harm Reduction Seminar ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠(September 20) and other ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠trainings and certification programs⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.

All virtual and sliding scale. Email us [email protected] with any questions.

Music: Ambisax from Unminus.com

How do we care for others without burning out or losing ourselves in the process?

Join Ryder Fox and Ash Parker from Stronger U as they deep dive their own experiences with learning how to give care in creative, dynamic, and sustainable ways.

This conversation explores:

• What comes to mind when thinking about giving care that is relevant to the person we're caring for
• Examples of natural ways that we care for people, and some examples of ways we had to learn to care that felt more foreign to you
• Practices that most helped us to improve our care work, especially in areas where we felt less comfortable
• How we've practiced giving care without burning out or feeling crushed by compassion fatigue
• Advice we'd offer to folks who are expanding their practices around giving care

In this episode, we invite you to get curious about your practice of giving care, and how you are honoring your own dynamic needs as well as your commitment to others and to your values.

We also have a ⁠downloadable template for formulating care requests that you can find here⁠!

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⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Discovery call⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ to learn about 1:1 or group coaching

⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Dissociative Care Circles⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠: 8- to 12-week group coaching program for those who are plural / DID / dissociative

⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Getting Unstuck Program⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠: 12-week group coaching program to stuck patterns, meet your somatic body with care, and practice moving toward alignment with support and community in this non-carceral, trauma-informed program.

⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Realign Cohort⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠: a specialized cohort experience of the ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Getting Unstuck⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ program. Find personalized coaching, support, and practices you need to find sustainable alignment between your work, your wellbeing, your values, and your purpose.

⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Non-Carceral Harm Reduction Seminar ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠(September 20) and other ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠trainings and certification programs⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.

All virtual and sliding scale. Email us [email protected] with any questions.

Music: Ambisax from Unminus.com

How do we care for others without burning out or losing ourselves in the process?

In this episode of CareFull Practices, Ryder Fox explores what it means for care to be dynamic, and how we can give care in sustainable, dynamic ways. For many of us, our values, lived experiences, and communities inspire us to show up for others - and at the same time, we're also left grappling with the realities of changing capacity, burnout, boundaries, and unmet expectations.

In this episode, we invite you to get curious about your practice of giving care, and how you are honoring your own dynamic needs as well as your commitment to others and to your values.

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Visit our website ⁠⁠⁠⁠strongeruwellness.com⁠⁠⁠⁠ or see the links below to find:

⁠⁠⁠⁠Free and donation-based peer support⁠⁠⁠⁠ in the Stronger Together discord and weekly peer support groups

⁠⁠⁠⁠Discovery call⁠⁠⁠⁠ to learn about 1:1 or group coaching

⁠⁠⁠⁠Dissociative Care Circles⁠⁠⁠⁠: 8- to 12-week group coaching program for those who are plural / DID / dissociative

⁠⁠⁠⁠Getting Unstuck Program⁠⁠⁠⁠: 12-week group coaching program to stuck patterns, meet your somatic body with care, and practice moving toward alignment with support and community in this non-carceral, trauma-informed program.

⁠⁠⁠⁠Realign Cohort⁠⁠⁠⁠: a specialized cohort experience of the ⁠⁠⁠⁠Getting Unstuck⁠⁠⁠⁠ program. Find personalized coaching, support, and practices you need to find sustainable alignment between your work, your wellbeing, your values, and your purpose.

⁠⁠⁠⁠Non-Carceral Harm Reduction Seminar ⁠⁠⁠⁠(September 20) and other ⁠⁠⁠⁠trainings and certification programs⁠⁠⁠⁠.

All virtual and sliding scale. Email us [email protected] with any questions.

Music: Ambisax from Unminus.com

Why is giving and receiving care so complicated and messy?

Join Ryder Fox and Ash Parker from Stronger U as they deep dive their own experiences with reciprocity, expectations, disappointment, and the ongoing practice of building more caring relationships.

This conversation explores:

• What giving and receiving care has looked like throughout life, and how it's changed over time.
• What "mutual care" means
• Some things that have been meaningful in mutual care practices
• Some ways we have intentionally built reciprocal care relationships
• How we've balanced reciprocal care, and how that's changed over time

In this episode, we invite you to sit with what you are giving, what you expect in return, what others are actually able to offer, and what your own capacity realistically allows.

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⁠⁠⁠⁠Discovery call⁠⁠⁠⁠ to learn about 1:1 or group coaching

⁠⁠⁠⁠Dissociative Care Circles⁠⁠⁠⁠: 8- to 12-week group coaching program for those who are plural / DID / dissociative

⁠⁠⁠⁠Getting Unstuck Program⁠⁠⁠⁠: 12-week group coaching program to stuck patterns, meet your somatic body with care, and practice moving toward alignment with support and community in this non-carceral, trauma-informed program.

⁠⁠⁠⁠Realign Cohort⁠⁠⁠⁠: a specialized cohort experience of the ⁠⁠⁠⁠Getting Unstuck⁠⁠⁠⁠ program. Find personalized coaching, support, and practices you need to find sustainable alignment between your work, your wellbeing, your values, and your purpose.

⁠⁠⁠⁠Non-Carceral Harm Reduction Seminar ⁠⁠⁠⁠(June 28) and other ⁠⁠⁠⁠trainings and certification programs⁠⁠⁠⁠.

All virtual and sliding scale. Email us [email protected] with any questions.

Music: Ambisax from Unminus.com

Why is giving and receiving care so complicated and messy?

In this episode of CareFull Practices, Ryder Fox explores a common tension: many people show up consistently for others but feel unseen or unsupported in return, while others feel overwhelmed by needing care and worry they are asking for too much. Why? Often, we were never taught how to engage in balanced, transparent care relationships. Instead, we've inherited beliefs that tie worth to usefulness, encourage independence over interdependence, or assume care should be automatic and unspoken. These unspoken agreements often lead to resentment, burnout, or emotional disconnection.

In this episode, we invite you to sit with what you are giving, what you expect in return, what others are actually able to offer, and what your own capacity realistically allows.

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Visit our website ⁠⁠⁠strongeruwellness.com⁠⁠⁠ or see the links below to find:

⁠⁠⁠Free and donation-based peer support⁠⁠⁠ in the Stronger Together discord and weekly peer support groups

⁠⁠⁠Discovery call⁠⁠⁠ to learn about 1:1 or group coaching

⁠⁠⁠Dissociative Care Circles⁠⁠⁠: 8- to 12-week group coaching program for those who are plural / DID / dissociative

⁠⁠⁠Getting Unstuck Program⁠⁠⁠: 12-week group coaching program to stuck patterns, meet your somatic body with care, and practice moving toward alignment with support and community in this non-carceral, trauma-informed program.

⁠⁠⁠Realign Cohort⁠⁠⁠: a specialized cohort experience of the ⁠⁠⁠Getting Unstuck⁠⁠⁠ program. Find personalized coaching, support, and practices you need to find sustainable alignment between your work, your wellbeing, your values, and your purpose.

⁠⁠⁠Non-Carceral Harm Reduction Seminar ⁠⁠⁠(June 28) and other ⁠⁠⁠trainings and certification programs⁠⁠⁠.

All virtual and sliding scale. Email us [email protected] with any questions.

Music: Ambisax from Unminus.com

How can we envision care outside of just responding to crisis and fighting for survival?

Join Ryder Fox, Ash Parker, and Isa from Stronger U as they deep dive their own experiences of care throughout their life, and how they fostered care as an intentional practice.

This conversation explores:

- Journeys into care work and early experiences with care (or, lack thereof)

- Moving from unstructured or less reflective caring to having an intentional care practice

- Fostering an ongoing care practice without beating yourself up about not being "good enough" or getting burned out by the constancy of developing your practice

- Some myths about care that impacted our care journeys

- Advice for someone who wants to build a more intentional care practice

In this episode, we invite you to reframe care as a practice of reclamation: one that helps us reconnect with ourselves, our communities, and our values. Explore your own care motivations, identify unsustainable patterns, and take a small step toward more nourishing and reciprocal ways of showing up.

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⁠⁠⁠Discovery call⁠⁠⁠ to learn about 1:1 or group coaching

⁠⁠⁠Dissociative Care Circles⁠⁠⁠: 8- to 12-week group coaching program for those who are plural / DID / dissociative

⁠⁠⁠Getting Unstuck Program⁠⁠⁠: 12-week group coaching program to stuck patterns, meet your somatic body with care, and practice moving toward alignment with support and community in this non-carceral, trauma-informed program.

⁠⁠⁠Realign Cohort⁠⁠⁠: a specialized cohort experience of the ⁠⁠⁠Getting Unstuck⁠⁠⁠ program. Find personalized coaching, support, and practices you need to find sustainable alignment between your work, your wellbeing, your values, and your purpose.

⁠⁠⁠Non-Carceral Harm Reduction Seminar ⁠⁠⁠(June 28) and other ⁠⁠⁠trainings and certification programs⁠⁠⁠.

All virtual and sliding scale. Email us [email protected] with any questions.

Music: Ambisax from Unminus.com

How can we envision care outside of just responding to crisis and fighting for survival?

In this episode of CareFull Practices, Ryder Fox explores what it means to begin a CareFull Practice. Drawing from personal experience and years of community-based care work, Ryder examines how trauma, marginalization, and unmet needs often shape our motivations for caring, and how common myths about care can trap us in cycles of burnout.

In this episode, we invite you to reframe care as a practice of reclamation: one that helps us reconnect with ourselves, our communities, and our values. Explore your own care motivations, identify unsustainable patterns, and take a small step toward more nourishing and reciprocal ways of showing up.

⁠View transcript here⁠.

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⁠⁠Discovery call⁠⁠ to learn about 1:1 or group coaching

⁠⁠Dissociative Care Circles⁠⁠: 8- to 12-week group coaching program for those who are plural / DID / dissociative

⁠⁠Getting Unstuck Program⁠⁠: 12-week group coaching program to stuck patterns, meet your somatic body with care, and practice moving toward alignment with support and community in this non-carceral, trauma-informed program.

⁠⁠Realign Cohort⁠⁠: a specialized cohort experience of the ⁠⁠Getting Unstuck⁠⁠ program. Find personalized coaching, support, and practices you need to find sustainable alignment between your work, your wellbeing, your values, and your purpose.

⁠⁠Non-Carceral Harm Reduction Seminar ⁠⁠(June 28) and other ⁠⁠trainings and certification programs⁠⁠.

All virtual and sliding scale. Email us [email protected] with any questions.

Music: Ambisax from Unminus.com

How do we keep caring and showing up for others when everything is falling apart? When everything feels so hard?

Join Ryder Fox and Ash Parker from Stronger U as they deep dive their own experiences of grappling with and incorporating practices that just feel HARD.

This conversation explores:

- Examples of practices that you’ve incorporated into your life that have been really hard for you to actually put into practice

- How to grapple with the hardship. How to decide whether to keep trying, or pull back, when it feels impossible.

- Moving from “this is way too hard to be worth it” to making the practice a regular part of your life

- Building practices that you can sustain

This episode invites you to reframe your relationship with “hard.” What are you actually avoiding, and what deeper values are calling you forward?

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⁠⁠Discovery call⁠⁠ to learn about 1:1 or group coaching

⁠⁠Dissociative Care Circles⁠⁠: 8- to 12-week group coaching program for those who are plural / DID / dissociative

⁠⁠Getting Unstuck Program⁠⁠: 12-week group coaching program to stuck patterns, meet your somatic body with care, and practice moving toward alignment with support and community in this non-carceral, trauma-informed program.

⁠⁠Realign Cohort⁠⁠: a specialized cohort experience of the ⁠⁠Getting Unstuck⁠⁠ program. Find personalized coaching, support, and practices you need to find sustainable alignment between your work, your wellbeing, your values, and your purpose.

⁠⁠Non-Carceral Harm Reduction Seminar ⁠⁠(June 28) and other ⁠⁠trainings and certification programs⁠⁠.

All virtual and sliding scale. Email us [email protected] with any questions.

Music: Ambisax from Unminus.com

How do we keep caring and showing up for others when everything is falling apart? When everything feels so hard?

In this episode of CareFull Practices, Ryder Fox uses their personal stories about social isolation, rejection, and stepping into public-facing work to discuss the difference between effort and the deeper forms of difficulty that often derail us: vulnerability, uncertainty, fear, grief, and the possibility of being hurt. Building on the previous conversation about letting go of rigid formulas, Ryder explores how CareFull Practice is not a set of rules to follow, but an ongoing practice of attunement.

This episode invites you to reframe your relationship with “hard.” What are you actually avoiding, and what deeper values are calling you forward?

View transcript here.

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Follow us on Instagram: @strongeruwellness

Visit our website ⁠strongeruwellness.com⁠ or see the links below to find:

⁠Free and donation-based peer support⁠ in the Stronger Together discord and weekly peer support groups

⁠Discovery call⁠ to learn about 1:1 or group coaching

⁠Dissociative Care Circles⁠: 8- to 12-week group coaching program for those who are plural / DID / dissociative

⁠Getting Unstuck Program⁠: 12-week group coaching program to stuck patterns, meet your somatic body with care, and practice moving toward alignment with support and community in this non-carceral, trauma-informed program.

⁠Realign Cohort⁠: a specialized cohort experience of the ⁠Getting Unstuck⁠ program. Find personalized coaching, support, and practices you need to find sustainable alignment between your work, your wellbeing, your values, and your purpose.

⁠Non-Carceral Harm Reduction Seminar ⁠(June 28) and other ⁠trainings and certification programs⁠.

All virtual and sliding scale. Email us [email protected] with any questions.

Music: Ambisax from Unminus.com