Have you been feeling burned out at work lately? Does your job involve high degrees of stress and trauma? Often, we have compassion fatigue and vicarious trauma without even knowing it. Amid the COVID ...

Compassion fatigue is a type of secondary trauma that occurs when a provider experiences distress from their ongoing role in taking care of patients who are suffering. They become emotionally and ...

Therapists often enter the profession because they believe in healing, growth, and the power of human connection. But when a ...

Self-compassion is the ongoing practice of relating to yourself kindly and fairly. It is especially helpful during times of stress and suffering. Self-compassion is not kicking yourself when you’re ...

Compassion fatigue creeps in gradually, often unnoticed, until one day the physical and emotional toll becomes undeniable. Like many educators, I was too preoccupied with helping my students and ...

Three events impacted me in 2015: First, a study by HCI Nurse Manager Melissa Banner and Clinical Nurse Whitney Houser showed that we had a real problem at HCI with compassion fatigue and burnout.

[Oberg:] As a former teacher, I can attest to the challenges that come with being an educator. The long hours, heavy workload, and responsibility of shaping young minds can take a toll on your mental ...

Sandy Bruno, youth and family coordinator at Comfort Zone Camp, a national nonprofit bereavement camp for grieving families, experienced compassion fatigue in the aftermath of her husband's death. She ...

When we think of leadership, especially within the military, we should not confuse authority with wisdom. The remarks by the President of the United States and the Secretary of Defense before senior ...

We're all tired and could do with a four-day working week... and have a lot going on in our personal lives. But, while you may have heard of burnout (where prolonged stress affects our wellbeing), ...