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Alyssa Petersel

A Letter On Self-Care This New Year

Dr. Danna Bodenheimer, LCSW, author of On Clinical Social Work:Meditations and Truths From the Field and Real World Clinical Social Work: Find Your Voice and Find Your Way, reflects on 2017 and shares her perspective and practical tips for self-care, particularly in the social work profession.
A Letter On Self-Care This New Year
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Dr. Danna Bodenheimer, LCSW, author of On Clinical Social Work:Meditations and Truths From the Field and Real World Clinical Social Work: Find Your Voice and Find Your Way, reflects on 2017 and shares her perspective and practical tips for self-care, particularly in the social work profession.

Read on in Dr. Bodenheimer's post, originally published by The New Social Worker.

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Alyssa Petersel, Co-Founder and CEO of My Wellbeing and author of Somehow I Am Different, graduated from Northwestern University in 2013 with dual BA degrees in psychology and international studies, graduated summa cum laude from New York University in May 2017 with her Master's in Social Work, and graduated from The Writer's Institute non-fiction program at CUNY Graduate Center in May 2017. A native New Yorker, Alyssa now lives in Brooklyn and enjoys running, coffee, community, and social justice.

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