Homework (complete by Week 8)

• Discuss self care challenges, practices, and sleep rituals.
• Share progress to goals and goals for the following week (15 mins/person).

• Start the week with your weekly planning session.
• Write every day (at least 30 minutes, use the timer, and check out, including a reflection on what you've accomplished.
• Reward yourself (a walk, a call with a friend, etc.
• Maintain your practice of naming resistance in your log.

• Watch Hanasono, "Overcoming Academic Perfectionism." (Webinar, 1:04).
• Guiding Questions:
  • Identify 1-2 characteristics that mark you as a perfectionist. What have been some of the consequences of these behaviors?
  • What are 1-2 strategies you can commit to TODAY to address them?
• Optional Materials + Modalities:
  • "Imposter Syndrome: How to Recognize it, Overcome it, and Realize your Academic Goals." (Webinar, 1:17).
  • NCFDD, "NCFDD, Positive Writing Affirmations." (Handout, 4 pages).
  • Pickens, "How to Manage Chronic Illness and Academic Life." (Webinar, 1:10).
  • Grange-Isaacson, "We Are All in This Together: Exposing the Myth of Meritocracy." The Professor Is In (Blog, 4 pages).
  • Wolf-Wendel, "Strategies for Academics Managing Careers and Caretaking." (Presentation Slide, 1 page).
  • Maki, "Women's Brain Health at Mid Life." (Infographic, cited from www.alz.org, 1 page).