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Resources, exercises and community-building for advocates and the survivors they support.

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How Leaders Can Use Transparency to Reduce Loneliness and Improve Connection

January 14, 2025, Jeremie Miller

 Leadership can feel lonely. Really lonely. You have a unique view of your organization, department, or team; a view that others often don’t understand or even realize exists.  ...

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Cultivating Self-Empathy: A Roadmap to Inner Balance

January 13, 2025, RAFT Team

As advocates, you give so much of yourself to others—but how often do you show that same care to yourself? Cultivating self-empathy, the practice of treating yourself with ...

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Leaders in Action: Managing Urgency while Focusing on Strategy

December 23, 2024, RAFT Team

As a leader, you’re constantly managing urgency right alongside strategizing the vision for tomorrow. Urgent tasks demand your immediate attention—emails, phone calls, meetings, crises that can’t be ignored. ...

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Building Resilience One Human at a Time

December 9, 2024, RAFT Team

Advocates are crucial in leading the charge for important causes, but the intense emotions and physical strain can wear them down. Juggling work and personal life, dealing with ...

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7 Ways to Measure Your Advocacy Impact

November 25, 2024, RAFT Team

You can’t fully understand the impact you’re making just by looking at numbers and stats. To really grasp the significance of your work, you need to see it ...

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Self-Care Resilience: Finding Balance in Turbulent Times

November 11, 2024, RAFT Team

Let’s dive into the wild world of challenges, my friend. We all face them: personal, professional, societal… you name it. Some weeks are just extra. Advocate work is ...

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A Strengths-Based Approach to Resilience

October 28, 2024, RAFT Team

We often think of resilience as bouncing back from tough times like a rubber band. But what if there’s a different way to look at it? Picture this: ...

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Self-Love = Self-Care: 5 Reasons I Value Myself 

October 16, 2024, Maegan Bradshaw

Do you ever need a pat on the back? Who better to give it to you than yourself?  One of my goals, or what I call my personal ...

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The Surprising Truth About Empowering Community Voices

October 14, 2024, RAFT Team

The Delicate Balance in Advocacy Work Advocacy is all about speaking up for others to make society better. But it’s more than just talking; it’s creating a space ...

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The Seven Realms of Self-Care: Let’s Move! (or not) 

October 4, 2024, Sophie Strachan

Everyone tells us to move more —doctors, mothers, therapists, fitness advertisements. Exercise! Get 10,000 steps, take the stairs, don’t sit for too long, don’t stand still for too ...

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