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A Six-Week Journey for Clergy, Caregivers & Spiritual Leaders
Self-Care as a Spiritual Practice
Caring for others is a sacred responsibility. Sustaining that care over a lifetime asks something too: attention to your own spiritual, emotional, physical, and relational well-being.
Six Weeks · Self-Guided · Trauma-Informed
This course is a self-guided learning experience built for clergy, caregivers, helping professionals, and spiritual leaders who want to develop sustainable practices of renewal, resilience, and holistic wellness. Through reflection, assessment tools, guided practices, and practical exercises, you’ll build a rhythm of care you can actually keep.
You cannot pour from an empty vessel — and your calling was never meant to require that you try.
The Six Weeks
Each week builds on the last, moving from why self-care matters to a plan you’ll carry beyond the course. Tap a week to see its focus.
1 Calling & Service
Examine the relationship between self-care, calling, and service — and why tending your own well-being is part of faithfulness to the work, not a departure from it.
2 Naming the Weight
Learn to recognize the early and later signs of burnout, compassion fatigue, and emotional exhaustion in yourself — before they name themselves for you.
3 The Body Remembers
Explore the connection between trauma, the body, and spiritual care, and how understanding your own nervous system changes the way you offer and receive care.
4 Boundaries & Rhythm
Build healthier boundaries and sustainable rhythms of life — practical structures that support caregiving for years, not just this season.
5 Receiving Grace
Name your personal barriers to self-care and renewal, and practice self-compassion as an act of spiritual formation — not indulgence.
6 Community & the Long Road
Consider the role of community in resilience, then complete your personal, Holistic Self-Care Plan — something to carry with you well beyond these six weeks.
By the End of This Course
Check these off as intentions to carry with you.
Recognize signs of burnout, compassion fatigue, and emotional exhaustion
Understand the connection between stress, trauma, and the nervous system
Develop healthier boundaries that support sustainable caregiving
Identify personal barriers to self-care and renewal
Practice self-compassion as part of spiritual formation
Create a personalized Holistic Self-Care Plan
What’s Included
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Personal Inventories Reflection tools and self-assessments that help you see your own patterns clearly. |
Guided Practices Weekly exercises for the body, mind, and spirit — practical, not theoretical. |
Holistic Self-Care Plan A finished, personalized plan you complete over six weeks and keep using long after. |
Six weeks, at your own pace.
Move through the material when your week allows it. Nothing here asks you to keep pace with anyone but yourself.
Course Content
Week 1: Naming What We Carry
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Lesson 1: Welcome — Beginning the Self-Care Journey
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Lesson 2: Section 1 — What Is Self-Care Really?
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Lesson 3: Section 2 — Burnout, Compassion Fatigue & Clergy Stress
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Lesson 4: Section 3 — PTSS, Continuous Traumatic Stress & Trauma Frameworks
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Lesson 5: Section 4 — Building a Personal Resiliency Plan
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Lesson 6: Section 5 — Post-Traumatic Growth & Looking Ahead
Week 2: The Body Knows
Week 3: Boundaries That Sustain
Week 4: Self-Compassion & Vocation
Week 5: Resilience, Community & Healing Practices
Week 6: Post-Traumatic Growth & Celebration
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