Collection: Self-Care, Advocate Care, & Collective Care

You hold safe spaces for survivors, advocates, families, and communities.  Caring for yourself and other advocates is crucial for your resilience. 

Advocates absorb what most people never see — the call at 2 a.m., the hearing that goes sideways, the family that leaves and comes back, the funding that arrives late while the need does not.  The stories, the worries, the challenges, and opportunities are all part of what advocates and survivor-leaders carry with them wherever they go. 

When we asked advocates what they needed most, the answer was clear: not more training to pass along to clients, but care for themselves and for one another.

This collection gathers self-care, advocate care, and collective care resources created by and for advocates, survivor-leaders, and violence prevention professionals. Small, returnable, made for the middle of a hard day — so relief is always within reach.

Categories in this collection:

• Self-Care & Burnout Prevention — Resources for tending your own wellbeing inside demanding work, including care toolkits, wellness check-ins, reflection guides, and trauma-informed strategies built for people who spend their days holding others.
• Advocate Care & Vicarious Trauma — Resources for the particular weight this work carries, including tools for secondary traumatic stress, compassion fatigue, moral injury, and staying whole through crisis response and organizational uncertainty.
• Grounding & Reset Practices — Quick, returnable tools for resetting your nervous system in the middle of the work, including breathing and grounding cards, somatic prompts, glimmer practices, and in-the-moment relief rituals.
• Meditations, Movement & Affirmations — Resources for building your own moments of calm, including guided meditations, movement practices, affirmation sets, audio resets, and personal rituals you can shape around your own rhythms and reset points.
• Boundaries & Sustainable Workload — Resources for protecting your time, energy, and capacity, including boundary-setting scripts, workload and capacity tools, and strategies for staying whole inside demanding roles.
• Community & Collective Care — Resources for caring for one another, including peer-support practices, collective-care activities, group-grounding guides, and tools for building cultures of care across teams and networks.