Ep# 306 Setting Powerful Intentions for 2025
Rekindling: Compassion Fatigue Solutions for Animal Workers
Release Date: 01/23/2025
What's "Best" For Animals
Rekindling: Compassion Fatigue Solutions for Animal Workers
Animal workers are deeply passionate and can carry strong opinions about what’s “best” for animals. The problem is that judgment creeps in, hijacks your nervous system and narrows your options to choose empathy and compassion instead of judgement. In this episode, we swap judgment for steadiness with a quick pause-and-reset and “what else could be true?” prompts that pair compassion with accountability, so you leave with tiny practices that calm your body and open better paths for animals and people.
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Ep# 339 How To Not Lose Yourself While Serving Others
Rekindling: Compassion Fatigue Solutions for Animal Workers
You're a helper, caregiver, advocate for animals. But how do you do all of that and not lose yourself in the process? The answer is with intention. We burnout when the demands being made on us don't match our ability to refuel/restore/rest. I know it's hard to stop when so many need you. This episode focuses on 3 moves you can make to help yourself.
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Ep# 338 Talking To Animals with Julie Smith
Rekindling: Compassion Fatigue Solutions for Animal Workers
This convo is so cool! Join me and Julie Smith, associate professor at Santa Fe College Teaching Zoo while we talk about talking to animals. Let's be clear, Julie (Smith) is the expert here, I'm just listening intently. Julie tells us how she went from a skeptic to full-on believer in communicating with her cats using Fluent Pet's buttons and how she's even using them with zoo animals. You don't want to miss this episode. Julie also graciously is sharing resources for all. - home of the buttons and all kinds of resources Promo codes for Fluent Pet: LOKITHEWONDERCAT 12%...
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Ep# 337 Closing the Summer Series
Rekindling: Compassion Fatigue Solutions for Animal Workers
What a summer of pep talks! Today I close the summer circle with a calming reset, a story about tiny wins, three truths, and a short visualization. And a tease of what is to come.
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Ep# 336 Real Resilience
Rekindling: Compassion Fatigue Solutions for Animal Workers
In this episode, we break down the myth of the “unbreakable caregiver” and explore what real resilience actually looks like. True strength isn’t about powering through or pretending you’re fine, it’s about allowing yourself to bend, rest, and reach for support when you need it. You don’t need to be superhuman to be resilient; you need space to be human.
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Ep# 335 The Emotional Minefield of Personal Pet Struggles
Rekindling: Compassion Fatigue Solutions for Animal Workers
There is a unique emotional weight when you work to help animals everyday and then your own pet is facing a tough diagnosis. It’s a reminder that expertise doesn’t make you immune to grief, guilt, or overwhelm, and that you’re allowed to lean on others when the personal and professional collide. Above all, this is an invitation to give yourself the same compassion you give to others.
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Ep# 334 The Stories We Carry
Rekindling: Compassion Fatigue Solutions for Animal Workers
We all have painful stories that we believe about ourselves. Today we explore how to gently question those stories that keep us stuck and begin to rewrite them with truth, compassion, and humanity. You deserve a story that helps you heal.
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Ep # 333 Summer Series: Nature is Calling You
Rekindling: Compassion Fatigue Solutions for Animal Workers
After a week of giving so much to others, your nervous system might be crying out for a reset. In this episode, we explore how nature can be the medicine we often forget to reach for. From calming our stress hormones to restoring our sense of belonging, the natural world has a profound way of bringing us back to ourselves. Whether it’s a walk in the woods, tending a garden, or simply feeling the sun on your face, nature offers a quiet refuge where you don’t have to be anything but human. This is your gentle reminder: you’re not just here to care for others. You too need caring for. ...
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Ep# 332 Boundaries Aren't Rejection, They're Love
Rekindling: Compassion Fatigue Solutions for Animal Workers
Boundaries aren’t rejection, and they’re not selfish. They are acts of love. Love for yourself, love for others, and love for the work you care so deeply about. If you’ve been feeling stretched thin, resentful, or guilty for needing space, this episode is your permission slip to reclaim your peace. Because staying connected doesn’t mean losing yourself and honoring your needs is never a failure.
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Ep# 331 Take 5 (Minutes) For Your Nervous System
Rekindling: Compassion Fatigue Solutions for Animal Workers
You give so much to others. Being dysregulated is part of the experience of living. Things will trigger your stress response over and over and you will need to know how to get yourself back to regulation. Join me today in doing exactly that!
info_outlineIt's not too late to set your course for the year! Matter of fact, you could do this at any time throughout the year, not just in the beginning. But setting intentions for the year is just like plugging in a destination in your GPS, it sets the course.
Here are the questions:
- What’s the one word or phrase I want to define my life in 2025, and why does it resonate with me right now?
(E.g., Freedom, Growth, Boldness) - What part of my life feels most aligned with who I truly am, and how can I build on that in the coming year?
- Where am I playing small, and how can I step into my full potential with courage and confidence in 2025?
- What’s one area of my life I’ve been avoiding or neglecting, and what small, intentional action will I take to change that?
- What wild, audacious dream excites me but also scares me, and how will I take the first step toward it this year?
- How do I want to show up for myself daily—mentally, physically, emotionally—and what rituals or habits will support that?
- Who inspires me, and what qualities or actions of theirs can I embody to create a life I’m proud of?
- What’s one area of my life where I need to let go—whether it’s control, fear, resentment, or old expectations—to move forward freely?
- What’s a risk I can take this year that could lead to incredible growth, even if the outcome isn’t guaranteed?
- If I were to fast forward to the end of 2025, what three moments would make me say, “This was my best year yet”?