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Self Care:
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“Courage starts with showing up and letting ourselves be seen.”
Breana Cross-Caldwell, BS, CI and CT Portland, Oregon Breana Cross-Caldwell holds her CI and CT from RID, B.S. in Interpretation from Western Oregon University and is a Certified Life Coach. She has led thousands of interpreters in preventing burnout and finding the passion again in their lives through developing habits of self-care. You can find her on Instagram @brighterfocus.
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s part of my Burnout Proof Bootcamp, I host a monthly support call. Interpreters take this 15-hour self-paced course to improve their self-care, and the live monthly call is offered as a way to connect with each other and to get support in real-time. Over the years I’ve had hundreds of interpreters through the course, but the support calls are usually small and intimate. You don’t have to show up live on the call to finish the course and get your CEUs - so many don’t. For those who do, the conversations and connections that happen are rich, deep, and transformative. Yet, showing up to receive support can be one of the hardest things we do. “Courage starts with showing up and letting ourselves be seen.” -Brené Brown (Brown, 2012)
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