Doors to Wellbeing invites you to join our monthly Peer Specialist Webinar Series. This FREE continuing education opportunity brings experts by experience to expand peer specialist skills, knowledge and best practices. The series is the last Tuesday of every month (except December) at 2pm ET/1pm CT/12pm MT/11am PT.
Conversation on Compassion and Self-Advocacy
Join us for a thoughtful conversation with Vivian Nuñez on the evolving journey of mental health recovery and self-care. This one-hour session will explore the balance between compassion and boundaries—how we sustain empathy in our lives and advocacy while remaining grounded in our roles. Through dialogue and reflection, participants will consider how recovery perspectives shift over time, including the ways aging, life experience, and changing responsibilities influence how we care for ourselves and others.
The conversation will also address the intersection of emotional wellbeing, advocacy, and physical health. Together, we will explore how people can move beyond fear or burnout in advocacy roles and instead cultivate sustainable practices that support resilience, longevity, and hope. Participants will leave with practical insights and reflective questions that support continued growth in both personal wellbeing and peer support practice.
Learning Objectives
- Identify strategies for balancing compassion, empathy, and appropriate role boundaries in peer support and advocacy work.
- Explore how perspectives on recovery, self-care, and advocacy evolve over time, including the influence of aging and life experience.
- Describe connections between mental health recovery, physical health, and sustainable self-care practices that support long-term wellbeing and leadership.
About the presenter: Vivian Nuñez
Vivian Nuñez was born & raised in Puerto Rico and moved to Massachusetts 34 years ago. She graduated from the University of the Sacred Heart in Santurce, PR with a bachelor’s in Social Work, a Minor in Advanced Psychology, and a 2nd Minor in Medical Sciences. After a long career as a mental health, trauma & addiction counselor/program director, she moved away from her provider role to become a Certified Peer Specialist in the state of Massachusetts; a Certified Older Adult Peer Specialist, a medical interpreter/translator/editor, an experienced facilitator, Hearing Voices support group facilitator and Recovery Coach. During the past 15 years, she had used her lived experience and bi-lingual abilities (Spanish & English) to provide “peer support” to individuals with diverse recovery challenges to find “Wellness within their Recovery ''.
This is part of Doors to Wellbeing's Peer Specialist Webinar Series.
