GIDII Advocacy

For too long, self-care has been misunderstood. It has been reduced to indulgence, framed as an escape from reality, or offered as a personal fix for problems that are clearly structural. In high-strain systems — health, education, advocacy, social services, emergency response, justice — this misunderstanding has consequences. People do not burn out because they lack scented candles. They burn out because the systems they work within place sustained ethical, emotional, and cognitive demands...

Something is shifting. Across communities, workplaces, families, and institutions, people are feeling the strain of systems that no longer hold. Conflict is louder. Polarisation is sharper. Economic pressure, environmental grief, moral injury, and social fragmentation are no longer abstract concepts — they are lived realities. If you feel it, you’re not imagining it. And yet, throughout history, when systems fracture, something else has always emerged alongside collapse: Hope. Not the passive...