Breathing Space: A Wellness Journal for Advocates and Other Helpers

Description

Breathing Space focuses on strengthening connection, wellness, and wholeness, from the inside out, creating shifts, big and small, that will lead to more sustainable and whole futures for our work: responding to and ending sexual and domestic violence. 

Building healing-centered practices for ourselves, our organizations, and our communities is essential if we hope to be agents of healing in the lives of survivors for generations to come.  

Contents:  

More than 100 thoughtfully designed prompts across 70 pages, gentle practices, and accessible tools that support: 

• Emotional processing without overwhelm 

• Reconnection to purpose and values 

• Regulation and grounding 

• Reflection on boundaries, capacity, and care 

• Grounding & Regulation 

How can I use this journal? 

This journal is designed for individual use AND as a tool when groups of advocates and other helpers gather. Use it on your own or within your agency as a staff development or wellness tool. The journal makes a great holiday, birthday, or going away gift.  

Many of the prompts can also be used when working with survivors, such as: 

• Grounding techniques 

• Identifying emotional triggers 

• Clarifying goals and values 

• Practices that heal 

What is the cost? 

We wish to make this resource as widely available as possible, so we offer a sliding scale option for purchasing: pay what you can, pay to sustain the resource, and/or pay to support access for others.  

• Shared Well-being Scholarship: Pay what you can 

• • This level is a partial or full scholarship and is available to anyone who needs it. Pay what you can. 

• Sustainer: $25 

• • This level covers the staff time to maintain the e-store, respond to inquiries, and update the journal as needed. 

• Nourisher: $40 

• • This level helps pay for scholarships for those who may not otherwise be able to pay for access to the journal. 

 Discount for Action Alliance Members 

You may use your member code for a $20 discount. Please choose the “Sustain” payment option and enter your code to receive the discount. Contact us at join@vsdvalliance.org if you need help finding your member code. Not a member yet? Join here.

Looking for a download option?  

If you would like to purchase Breathing Space Journals as a download (you may print as many copies as you like), please visit here.