May - 2017 2/2

Putting the pieces back together

Over the next few days, I will be sharing questions and activities that have been helpful for me in planning my resistance and my...

The day after the election, the students of University of Washington inspired me. They gathered to comfort and support each other. To cry...

The basic building blocks that measure one's ability to and effectiveness of taking care of themselves are known as Activities of Daily...

My passion for teaching about self-care comes from my personal experience with burnout and compassion fatigue. As explained in previous...

Today I am angry. I am also sad and anxious and confused and discouraged. Honestly, today, in a lot of ways, I feel like I did on...

I've covered a lot of "not so happy" but very important things about mental health, trauma, self-care and burnout over the last few...

As I mentioned in my last post, today I will be talking about the impacts of various forms of traumatic stress compared with (or in...

I did not wake up one day and discover I was experiencing burnout like one wakes up and has food poisoning. No, I woke up about hundreds...

If you are anything like me (and in this instance I hope you are not) you may be thinking "yeah, I have some of those warning signs-- but...