If you are in the caring profession, you will likely experience compassion fatigue. You may first notice exhaustion, both physical and mental. If you don’t recognize what’s occurring, you will eventually have a decreased capacity to empathize for those in
“The odds are high that burnout will strike every healthcare professional at some point. Health workers — as well as teachers, ministers and others in the caring professions — are at increased risk for the stress syndrome, because of the
What Is ‘Self-Care’?
Though the definition of this word is very simple, the actual implementation of self-care is absolutely challenging! It is not just physical exercise, which is what normally comes to mind. But when you think more carefully about
De-Stressing has a lot to do with knowledge, understanding, and a change in behavior. In today’s society, we have become indoctrinated to “more.” The more we fill our calendars with “stuff” — family schedules, business meetings, work shifts or extensions,