Being a caring person can have its downsides. One cost of caring is compassion fatigue, and it can hit anyone—even those trained to avoid it. I and two of my co-authors of RELIT: How to Rekindle Yourself in the Darkness of Compassion Fatigue appeared on the In Sickness podcast recently. Read more…
Do you keep your hands on your self-care steering wheel? Or do you grab the wheel only when things get overwhelming? Imagine you’re on a long road. When the road is curvy, you need to steer through the curves. When the road is straight, there’s a lot less steering to Read more…
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Three simple tools of resilience can help you have confidence, clarity, and calm in a crisis. Do these today to make tomorrow easier.
We all need a lifeline to the future, a future story, to help us get through the problems that seem insurmountable today.
There is no bad weather. Only bad clothing. This is a useful metaphor for most of life, and something to remember on this Election Day.
When change happens, people often fall off an identity cliff. Here’s how to build identity resilience to thrive through change.
This stressful election season is permeating everything. Instead of amplifying the tension, be someone who cools it down.
New book announcement and cover reveal! RELIT helps people overcome compassion fatigue. Due out November 13th.
The terms “unity” and “consensus” are often used to sugar-coat exclusion. Empathy is at the root of true unification and consensus building.