Self-Care and Relaxation

The key is to identify ways that are likely to work well for you as part of your own personal strategy for fostering resilience. From the American Psychological Association, 2017.

Many students do not sleep well. Sometimes sleep problems are caused by factors outside our direct control, such as loud roommates, a medical condition, or living near a train track. More often than not, however, a student’s sleeping problem is caused by poor “sleep hygiene”, or poor choices about sleep that are within our control…