{"id":1019,"date":"2020-06-15T14:56:31","date_gmt":"2020-06-15T14:56:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/communitycares\/?page_id=1019"},"modified":"2020-06-15T14:56:31","modified_gmt":"2020-06-15T14:56:31","slug":"coping-as-a-white-ally","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/communitycares\/coping-as-a-white-ally\/","title":{"rendered":"Coping as a White Ally"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" style=\"text-align:center\"><strong>Coping\u00a0as\u00a0a\u00a0White\u00a0Ally<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/communitycares\/files\/2020\/06\/blmblm-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1031\" width=\"308\" height=\"308\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>As a white ally involved in anti-racism activism, the past few weeks have likely been busy for you.&nbsp; Perhaps you have attended marches, signed petitions, or drastically increased your social media consumption &amp; participation in an effort to work on decreasing your own biases, challenging others, and calling for change.&nbsp; This is important, valuable work, and it is also difficult and draining.&nbsp; Here are some strategies to consider as you balance your own emotional and mental well-being while continuing to stay active on behalf of the BiPOC community.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Continue your physical self-care. Be sure to eat, sleep, and get in some physical movement each day.&nbsp; Check out our \u201cPhysical Wellness as an Emotional Skill\u201d post for more details.<\/li><li>Be willing to set the phone down for a short period of time. Be sure to recognize the privilege you have in walking away, and be sure that you return to advocacy after you have had some rest.&nbsp; It is important to recognize that you cannot be effective if you have no energy to commit to the cause.<\/li><li>Reach out to other white allies to check-in on you and have conversations with them. You are not in this fight alone, and having someone to discuss your feelings with can be immensely helpful.<\/li><li>Seek out hopeful content in addition to the content you are consuming that identifies problems.&nbsp; Maintaining a sense of hope will help to empower you because it will remind you that you are fighting for a reason. Buying into the \u201cthings will never change\u201d narrative is an easy way to feel burnt out and give up.<\/li><li>Take some time to identify your emotions and feelings throughout the day.&nbsp; This could be a brief check-in at the start\/end of your day, journaling about your feelings, keeping a mood log, etc.&nbsp; Being able to recognize early signs of debilitating emotions and burnout can help you to take care of it immediately, rather than waiting until they feel out of control.<\/li><li>Have a list of activities on hand that you know make you feel good.&nbsp; For example, taking a shower\/bath, lighting a candle, doing a meditation, going for a walk, coloring, drawing, exercising, etc. Having the list on-hand will make it easier to decide on how to cope when you start to feel overwhelmed.<\/li><li>Follow accounts on social media that you find encouraging and inspiring, but that are still committed to the movement.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>We\u2019d love to hear what other strategies are helping you cope as a white ally.&nbsp; Overall, we want to ensure that you are taking care of yourself in a way that ensures you can continue to fight and advocate on behalf of BiPOC.&nbsp; Make sure your coping does not replace your advocacy &#8211; keep working towards justice.&nbsp; Together we can make a difference.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"273\" height=\"184\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/communitycares\/files\/2020\/06\/download.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1027\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coping\u00a0as\u00a0a\u00a0White\u00a0Ally As a white ally involved in anti-racism activism, the past few weeks have likely been busy for you.&nbsp; Perhaps you have attended marches, signed petitions, or drastically increased your social media consumption &amp; participation in an effort to work on decreasing your own biases, challenging others, and calling for change.&nbsp; This is important, valuable &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/communitycares\/coping-as-a-white-ally\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Coping as a White Ally&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4383,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1019","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/communitycares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/communitycares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/communitycares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/communitycares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4383"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/communitycares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1019"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/communitycares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1019\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1035,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/communitycares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1019\/revisions\/1035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/communitycares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}