Take the Self-Care Challenge at April's Self-Care MasterMind Class & Learn More With BPL's Resource Guide

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C.J. Wade, instructor of Self-Care MasterMind Series


What: Self Care MasterMind Community Edition 2025 April 1, 2025 – Let’s Do It: The 60 Second Self-Care Challenge 
Date: Tuesday April 1, 2025
Time: 5:30-6:30pm
Location: 1st Floor, Central Library, 2100 Park Place, Birmingham, AL 35203 
Details: The instructor for the Self-Care MasterMind: Community Edition 2025 series is Christina (C. J.) Wade. Ms. Wade is a licensed massage therapist and certified health coach.

Birmingham, Ala. - Practicing self-care involves taking conscious, deliberate steps to improve our physical, mental, and emotional health. Although this sounds like a course of action that everyone would prioritize in their lives, that is not always the case. 

 Other priorities - such as concerns about job demands, relationships, and personal finances – can dominate our attention and cause stressful reactions that are harmful to our overall well-being.  To ensure that we stay focused on our commitment to self-care, we need to develop a routine and stick to it consistently. 

Are you up to the challenge of creating a self-care routine? If so, come and get some support and encouragement at the Self-Care MasterMind program, Let’s Do It: The 60 Second Self-Care Challenge on Tuesday April 1, 2025 at the Birmingham Public Library’s Central location. 

BPL staff have assembled the following library resource guide that will help you navigate your information needs as you take on your self-care challenge. 

BPL Resource Guide: Self-Care Challenge 

 BPL Catalog - Using the Birmingham Public Library catalog, you can search for books, magazines, audiobooks, DVDs, and downloadables, held by all the Public Libraries in Jefferson County - including BPL.  

Use the following subject terms to locate relevant materials on self-care techniques and practices.  












Research databases can be accessed on computers at all Birmingham Public Library locations during operating hours and from your home or office 24/7 with a valid JCLC library card. The following databases are reliable sources for magazine and scholarly journal articles on topics related to self-care.    

The following databases can also be accessed through the Alabama Virtual Library (AVL) website. 

• Alt HealthWatch: Provides in-depth coverage of complementary and alternative medicine, offering full text articles from peer-reviewed journals, reports, newsletters, pamphlets, booklets, special reports, original research and book excerpts.

• Health Source: Consumer Edition: Provides access to nearly 80 full text, consumer health magazines.

 • Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition: provides nearly 550 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Coverage of nursing and allied health is particularly strong.

Hoopla and Libby are apps that you can used to browse the content of hundreds of magazine titles, as well as giving you access to downloadable ebooks and audiobooks.  The magazine collection on Libby includes health and wellness titles such as Health, Men’s Health, Prevention, and Women’s Health that contain articles on self-care topics.  All you need to start reading is your valid JCLC library card.    

Websites - The following websites have assembled information from healthcare practitioners that will help you make the most of your self-care challenge: 









By Jim Murray, Librarian II, Central Library 



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