Creative Pathways to Healing: Reclaim Your Well-Being from Workplace Trauma
This blog series is designed to address various forms of workplace trauma and provide readers with practical, creative strategies to cope and heal. Each post in the series will focus on different aspects of workplace trauma, offering both reflective journaling exercises and fun, engaging activities like dance, singing, games, crafting, and painting to help readers reconnect with themselves and foster emotional well-being.
Series of Posts
Here’s a brief outline of the posts for the series:
- Understanding Workplace Trauma (e.g., fears of layoffs, overwork, and deadlines): Focusing on setting intentions, practicing gratitude, and forgiveness, paired with fun activities like dancing and singing.
Coming Soon in the Series…
- Navigating a Toxic Work Environment: Covers setting boundaries and self-care with creative outlets like crafting and painting for calm.
- Overcoming Micromanagement: Builds self-confidence and resilience through journaling and validation, along with fun coping mechanisms like games and celebratory songs.
- Coping with Lack of Recognition: Emphasizes celebrating personal wins and motivation with activities like crafting trophies and painting.
- Healing from Isolation and Exclusion: Focuses on building connections through social and creative outlets like group activities and connection art.
- Overcoming Discrimination and Bias: Empowering through advocacy, journaling about discrimination, and using music and art as tools for advocacy and emotional release.
- Managing Unclear Job Expectations: Offers strategies for clarity and communication, including vision boards and painting career paths.
- Coping with Chronic Understaffing: Prioritizing tasks, delegation, and creative work-life balance practices like making personalized planners.