Self-Care: Defense Against the Dark Arts

A lightning talk for the JrDevDays track at Microsoft Build. The goal was to encourage students to think about self-care and work/life balance in a stressful time. This was an abbreviated version of the longer talk on self-care that I've given in the past.

Transcript

3. Image Credit: Unpslash/@elgassier
4. https://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/stress/2017/state-nation.pdf
5. https://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/stress/2018/stress-gen-z.pdf
6. stress anxiety depression
7. Self-care Image Credit: Unpslash/@prateekkatyal
8. protecting one’s own well-being and happiness https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/self-care
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10. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._K._Rowling
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12. Image Credit: Death Eater Studies Legilimency The power to invade the mind and infect or influence it Occlumency The defense of the mind against external influence CONTROL STRATEGY
13. Image Credit: Pinterest Boggart The power to paralyze you by taking on the form of your greatest fears Riddikulus The defense against something you fear by reducing it to an object of humor COPING STRATEGY
14. Image Credit: Today Dementor The power to create feelings of despair or helplessness Patronus The ultimate defense, a guardian that projects your most positive feelings COMFORT STRATEGY
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19. Image Credit: Unsplash/@nasa Approval-Seeking Behaviors
20. Image Credit: Unsplash/@nasa Approval-Seeking Behaviors Break That Cycle Image Credit: Unsplash/@kris_ricepees
21. Image Credit: Unsplash/@nasa Approval-Seeking Behaviors Harry Potter Was Right Image Credit: Unsplash/@kris_ricepees
27. Put on your oxygen mask first … before you seek to help others
28. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._K._Rowling