Season 2 finale! All about self-care!

It's the final episode of Season 2, folx! Hound Opinions will be taking a break for the month of September, but Bill will be back with Season 3 on October 6. 

We see the term "self-care" tossed around a lot these days, especially on social media. Really, since the covid pandemic began, we've been talking about how important it is to practice. But the term "self-care" isn't particularly descriptive, is it? So it's hard to know what it actually entails. 

That's why Bill wanted to do this episode. It's a dog-adjacent topic that's important because if you're not caring for yourself, it's tough to care for your dogs. And on the flipside, dogs can be a central part of your self-care regimens. 

With Bill on the pod for the Season 2 finale is Sara Polk, LCSW-S. Sara is a very dear friend of Bill's from college (seriously, they each had a Beatles-themed radio show on their school's station) who is now a licensed mental health provider in El Paso, Texas, focused on providing trauma-informed care to survivors of crime and justice-involved youth. Outside of her day job, she's focused on giving her three rescue pups the lives they deserve. She's also an avid and award-winning cosplayer and all-around fantastic human. 

Bill and Sara break down what self-care actually is and why it's important, as well as how dogs factor into it.  

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