Compassion fatigue

Learn how to recover from compassion fatigue.

Feeling burned out by caring for others? Here are seven signs you might be suffering from compassion fatigue.

When we’re in a role that requires consistent and heightened compassion, we become susceptible to the emotional wounds of caring too much.

Cohort4Care, Burnout, Compassion Fatigue, We Are For Good Podcast, Eleanor Wells, Ashley Cauley

Common signs of compassion fatigue and empathic burnout in empaths, caregivers, helpers, healers, heatlhcare professionals and therapists

Compassion fatigue has similar symptoms to burnout. Compassion fatigue is a preoccupation with absorbing trauma and emotional stresses of others, and this creates a secondary traumatic stress in the helper. Compassion fatigue can be defined as the emotional residue of exposure of working with those suffering from the consequences of traumatic events. The prolonged exposure … Continued

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