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Self-Care During Finals

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             With finals upon us, it is often a time of year, where college students can get stressed out, overwhelmed, and overworked. Part of that is just being in college and learning how to navigate the craziness of final tests and papers that are due! However, I believe it is extremely important to practice self-care during finals week, even more than normal. I am a firm advocate of self-care all the time, but in times of stress and last minute papers and exams, I think it is time to double up! Self-care looks different for each person. I would challenge you to figure what it looks like for you. I recently read an article, where the author talked about how self-care is not just salt baths and chocolate cake (check out that article here! https://thoughtcatalog.com/brianna-wiest/2017/11/this-is-what-self-care-really-means-because-its-not-all-salt-baths-and-chocolate-cake/ ). Brianna Wiest, the author, talks about how self-care looks like ...