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Now that you have explored some of the basic issues regarding self-care and renewal, it is time for you to decide what you would like to learn more about. Until now, you have shared a common trail with others as you've begun your journey. Now it is time to venture off this common path and explore more about self-care and renewal.

Below, we list a set of eight activities which will guide you temporarily away from this trail. You are invited to choose any three and explore them fully before going on.

Please follow your study guide.

1. Look at a collection of print materials we have found which we believe are good resources for learning more about self-care and renewal. Find one that interests you, locate and read it. Come back and click here to share your opinions about the resource with the instructor. (Note: If you know of other quality print material which you'd like to read and review regarding self-care and renewal, please e-mail us and let us know. We, too, are open to learning and may want to add your resource to our recommended list!)

    

2. Search the World Wide Web for more information about self-care and renewal. When you've completed the search, return to this page and click here to share what you have learned with the instructor. If you need help getting started on a search, click here.

    

3. Think of something nice that you can do for yourself and go out and do it. Reflect on how you felt. When you've thought about it for a while, return to this page and click here to share what you did and how you felt with the instructor.

    

4. Share, with a friend, your answers to the reflection questions which appear at the end of the story about Sandy. Then return and click here to share with the instructor.

    

5. Share with your partner what your biggest roadblocks are which keep you from taking care of yourself. Then return and click here to share with the instructor.

    

6. Share your self-care habits with a friend. Tell each other what self-renewing activities you plan to do this week and then check in with each other. Support one another in your mutual quest toward self-care. Then return and click here to share with the instructor.

    

7. Talk with other teachers at your school about the meaning of and need for personal and/or professional renewal. Find out how they take responsibility for renewing their personal and professional lives. Also find out what are the biggest challenges for them. When you've finished talking with them, return to this page and click here to share your reflections on this experience with the instructor.

    

8. Write a short story, essay, or poem describing how you would see yourself as a healthy, self-caring and self-renewing person. When you've completed your writing, return to this page and click here to share your work with the instructor.