This book focuses on the lived experiences of higher education professionals working in the face of stress, pressure and the threat of burn out, and how acts of self-care and wellbeing can support, develop and maintain a sense of self.

1. Reforming our acts of self-care in higher education: Developing a sense of self individually and collectively Section 1: Being present and non-judgmentally aware of self-care 2. Yoga and the Contemplative Path: Placing Meaning at the Centre of Self-Care and Wellbeing in University Life 3. Finding the Spaces In Between 4. Wellbeing through self-reflexivity: Understanding our underlying motivations, gratitude, strength identification and support. 5. Self-care and environmentalism: Finding a socially-just balance as an early career social work researcher 6. Tales from the soft play fifth shift: mother, teacher, mentor, academic and student 7. A community of practice-educators as self-care: a sustainable strategy for both academic and practitioners alike Section 2: Awareness in caring for self and others 8. A systems pathway to self-care in academia: Me, We, and Us as avenues to integrated long-term self-care 9. Cultivating whole-heartedness in the academy during a time of COVID: Insights from/within an inter-collegial friendship 10. Peer reviewing journal articles: A duoethnographic exploration of emotion in the digitalised space 11. Finding an audience who care: Examining research crowdfunding through a lens of self-care 12. "Ding!" Co-creating wellbeing in a Friday online research writing group