Ep # 25 Boundaries
Rekindling: Compassion Fatigue Solutions for Animal Workers
Release Date: 08/15/2019
Rekindling: Compassion Fatigue Solutions for Animal Workers
Ever listen to something at a different time in your life and it transforms you? To be honest, EVERY time I listen to what I'm sharing with you in this episode, I am transformed. Because it hits me differently each and every time I hear it. And I've heard it a lot over the past two decades. So today I invite you to take a real listen and see how this lands with you with where you are in your life right now. And if it encourages you to shift, pivot or change your thinking about something in your life. It does for me, every damn time.
info_outline Ep# 275 Geminis Unleashed: ResilienceRekindling: Compassion Fatigue Solutions for Animal Workers
Geminis Unleashed is what I'm calling the 6 monthly episodes I'm doing with fellow Gemini Soul Sister, Kelly Burich. Kelly is a favorite repeat guest on the pod and today we talk all about Resilience. What it is, how emotional labor impacts it, what the research says and what do we do to have more. Hit play! You won't want to miss this meeting of the Gemini minds!!
info_outline Ep# 274 My Summer AwakeningRekindling: Compassion Fatigue Solutions for Animal Workers
In this episode I share with you what I'm calling my Summer Awakening or my Mid-Life Awakening. And I want to invite you to join me in it. It's a simple approach to summer that will result in an overall improvement in your wellbeing and mental health.
info_outline Ep# 273 Lessons From My MentorRekindling: Compassion Fatigue Solutions for Animal Workers
I've been thinking a lot about all the things I learned from my veterinary mentor Dr. Skip Leighton and wanted to share that with you. He's even partially responsible for the work I do today. Listen and find out how.
info_outline Ep#272 Dysregulated ClientsRekindling: Compassion Fatigue Solutions for Animal Workers
Whether you serve veterinary clients, the general public or someone else, you need to be aware of how your policies and procedures may be creating (or adding to) nervous system dysregulation in others. What I'm about to say in this episode may not be agreed upon by everyone but hear me out. It just might have the potential to help!
info_outline Ep# 271 Motherless Daughters:A Heartfelt Chat with Kelly BurichRekindling: Compassion Fatigue Solutions for Animal Workers
The "club" we never wanted to be in, being a motherless daughter. Join me as I welcome back to the pod, the fabulous, spunky and always witty dynamo Kelly Burich, for a conversation about love, loss and grief. In honor of Mother's Day, we talk about our beloved mom's Pamela and Nancy. You won't want to miss this as we laugh and cry about our mama's.
info_outline Ep# 270 Best Of: The 5 Chapters of Your LifeRekindling: Compassion Fatigue Solutions for Animal Workers
Today's episode is from the archives of 2022. An Autobiography in Five Chapters by Portia Nelson Chapter 1 I walk down the street. There is a deep hole in the sidewalk. I fall in. I am lost….I am helpless. It isn’t my fault. It takes forever to find a way out. Chapter 2 I walk down the same street. There is a deep hole in the side walk. I pretend I don’t see it. I fall in again. I can’t believe I am in the same place. But it isn’t my fault. It still takes a long time to get out. Chapter 3 I walk down the same street. There is a deep hole in the sidewalk. I see it is there. I...
info_outline Ep# 269 Conscious CompartmentalizationRekindling: Compassion Fatigue Solutions for Animal Workers
"Compartmentalization is a defense mechanism in which people mentally separate conflicting thoughts, emotions, or experiences to avoid the discomfort of contradiction" according to Psychology Today. I believe compartmentalization can be an effective coping strategy for people who work in the emotionally charged fields of vet med, animal welfare and lab animal research. But it has to be conscious. Listen and learn what I mean by that.
info_outline Ep# 268 Mindset & CBTRekindling: Compassion Fatigue Solutions for Animal Workers
Understanding the interconnectedness of your thoughts, feelings and behavior is the key to self-awareness and empowerment. We all just want others to behave differently so we can feel better. That's the long way.
info_outline Ep#267 Different Brains: A Conversation with Nicole Clausen CSSGB, CCFPRekindling: Compassion Fatigue Solutions for Animal Workers
Neurodiversity describes the idea that people experience and interact with the world around them in many different ways; there is no one "right" way of thinking, learning, and behaving, and differences are not viewed as deficits. (Harvard Health Publishing) Understanding that not everyone's brain works the same is the crux of this interview I have with Nicole Clausen, founder of Veterinary Care Logistics, an inventory management company. You can find out more about Nicole's company, Veterinary Care Logistics at: Book recommendations by Nicole: Here are my 3(ish) book recs: (extra one...
info_outlineBoundaries are an extremely important component of preventing compassion fatigue and as animal workers we often have a hard time creating and enforcing them. Essentially boundaries are about respect, self-protection and self-care. Listen to find out how more!