This is the third part of a short series about trauma-informed self care.

In the last episode, I talked about cultivating a reset space. I think about this as my baseline. Not only is it a helpful practice in and of itself, it is helpful in terms of having a sense of when I've veered too far from okay.

A key thing for me has been about what kind of material i am taking in about the world -- I call this intake, and that's what this episode is about.

There are two ways I think about this-- one is modulating and the other is offsetting what I take in.

I'd love to hear questions, comments, and about your own experiences with this. We're on substack as @thegreaterus, and I warmly invite you to connect with us.

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This is the second part of a short series about trauma-informed self care.

In this part I'm going to talk about cultivating and protecting an inner space, a reset space that to ideally begin the day in, before the energies of the world come in, and also return to. Entering and spending some time in this space first thing in the morning can make the difference between reacting and responding to the world.

This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit thegreaterus.substack.com

This is the introductory episode of short series about trauma-informed self care, about the strategies i've come to as someone who has been engaging in various kinds of fraught and difficult work for years.

In the next few episodes, i'll talk about the four areas or domains in which i think about these self-care strategies, so please stay tuned for those!

This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit thegreaterus.substack.com

Hello. You're listening The Greater Us, a podcast where we think about anti-oppression work and deep culture change through a trauma-informed lens. I'm Leena Akhtar.

There is, of course, some wordplay in the name "The Greater Us." in one sense, it is about expanding our definition of "us." in another, it's about showing up as the most expansive version of ourselves-- as who we want to be in the world.

So what does it mean to expand the definition of us? What does doing that make possible? What does it mean show up fully and live into our intentions for who we want to be in the world?

These are all questions that i'm taking in an interest in in this podcast. For people of empathy, compassion, and people who think that better things are possible for the world, whose response to seeing injustice is to get curious about how we got here and to understand so that it doesn't happen again, who want to figure out a way to intervene and need strategies to help them stay in the crucial work of planting the seeds of a better world- this is for you.

This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit thegreaterus.substack.com