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Being Well with Forrest Hanson and Dr. Rick Hanson

Overcoming Compassion Fatigue

Apr 13, 2020
32:47

How can we continue to support others when our own well has run dry? Today we're exploring practices for managing and overcoming both direct traumatic stress and compassion fatigue, or "secondary traumatic stress." 

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Key Topics:

3:00: The anxiety, outrage, and overwhelm of this moment.

7:00: Finding refuge. 

12:00: Refuge and purpose in the collective experience. 

15:00: Surrendering to the moment as it is.

17:00: Opening to the experience and letting it go. 

22:00: Giving yourself permission to feel. 

26:00: "Want to" and "have to."

28:00: A message of gratitude. 

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