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11: Master Your Stress with Cassandra Martin-Himmons

Season #1

Focus: Self-care, personal stories, caregivers and overcoming challenges

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Cassandra is a licensed social worker based in New York City, specializing in working with older adults and their family caregivers. In this episode she highlights her personal experience as a family caregiver, inspiring her passion for helping families.

Stephanie and Cassandra discuss their favorite self-care strategies and Cassandra emphasizes her favorite self-care practice of walking for stress release and mental clarity. Cassandra shares her favorite quote by Celia Tran about giving oneself permission to pause, discussing the importance of caregivers taking time for self-care. She also shares her personal journey to wellness, including working a challenging job, studying for licensure, and being a family caregiver.

She covers the physical toll of neglecting self-care and the realization that change was needed. Leveraging her personal experience with self care, Cassandra initiated a meditation and deep breathing group at her job and overcame challenges such as mindset shifts and resistance to change. She emphasizes the importance of small, sustainable changes for building a self-care practice, relating it to the concept of "Atomic Habits" by James Clear.

Upcoming Projects: Cassandra is working on her first course on self-care for family caregivers. And she is announcing a free 10-day self-care challenge in January, open to everyone. Cassandra invites listeners to join the 10-day self-care challenge on Instagram (@masteryourstress). Emphasizes the inclusivity of the challenge for anyone seeking more self-care in their lives. Join here: https://exceptional-trader-661.ck.page/nurturingyou